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The
Not-So-Invisible Hand in Kashmir
SREERAM CHAULIA
The infamous incident of American
gunboat diplomacy during the 1971 Bangladesh war, with USS Enterprise
deployed in the Bay of Bengal as a deterrent on Indian “aggression”, is
well known. But it is a relatively lesser known fact that around the
same time, the prospect of the complete Balkanisation and collapse of
the Pakistani state upset the US so much that a Special Action Group
(SAG) was formed by the State Department with the following objectives.....More...
Jethmalani
Committees, Shabir Shahs and Hurriyats
Subodh Atal, Ph. D.
The latest
round of talks between the committee headed by Ram Jethmalani and
Islamic separatists of Kashmir valley are again designed to gradually
wean the separatist leaders one by one away from the Pakistani
stranglehold on thinking in the region. The Indian government had some
level of success with Abdul Ghani Lone in earlier backdoor talks with
him. Lone had agreed to participate in elections in the state, which are
anathema to the Islamic fundamentalism thought exported from
Pakistan.....More...
Mr.
President, It is time to visit Mishriwalla
Lalit Koul
In
the days leading up to January 19, 1990, Islamic terrorists in Kashmir
valley engaged in worst kind of ethnic cleansing by killing, raping,
maiming and butchering Hindu men, women, children, young and old. The
innocent victims fault: they believed in Hindu Way of Life and India.
They believed in Indian Tricolor. Most of these victims of ethnic
cleansing were Kashmiri Hindus.....More...
HISTORY - The way it should be
Vinod Kumar
What is this
"popular understanding of Indian history"? Is it the understanding that
during the Mughal rule anyone could go and pull a rope hanging at the
palace gate which would ring a bell and the emperor himself would
immediately appear in person and render justice. Sir VS Naipaul has
called it "a serf fantasy about the mercy of the master", "the child's
idea of history". No doubt, this is an absurd idea of history. To
continue such fantasies is not "secular" history; it is "communal"
history. It is nothing more than sheer fiction.....More...
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