KASHMIR ROADMAP

 

Dear Indians,

As announced in my last post, I will be analysing the Kashmiri Pandit (KP) activists who claim to represent KPs and their struggles. Though I cannot devote much time for detailed analysis, I will try to present my views about them briefly. The BJP spokesperson Sanju Verma has publicly denounced some of them as not being authorized representatives of the Pandits. It surprises me that in a Hindu country there should be so few KP activists. In the recent spate of killings in Kashmir, it is astonishing that hardly any KP voices have been heard with regularity. It seems that the pseudonationalist government is trying hard to muffle their voices so as to maintain their narrative of stupendous success in Kashmir.

Sushil Pandit happens to be one of the most well-known and popular faces in the mainstream media.  What comes to my memory is a conversation between him and a Kashmiri Muslim leader. In the heat of the debate on India News, the latter accused the former of alleging that all Muslims were terrorists. Our seasoned activist immediately broke into an embarrassed smile and became apologetic, fumbled, and went into denial mode. This is a basic accusation that Muslims keep hurling at others, but he seemed so flustered, unprepared, and sloppy, and then the anchor interrupted with another cliche, "All Muslims may not be terrorists, but why are all terrorists are Muslims?" and then the conversation drifted on to some other point and that was that.

In the recent series of tragic events in Kashmir, Sushil seems to be the only KP on duty. Has he been selected as the lone KP voice to sideline other voices? There is so much to talk about, and there should be so many more voices. We need fresh thought, but it seems that the mainstream prefers to go go over the same routine over and over again. It would have been so easy for Sushil to point out that terrorism has such a mass base in Islam using the TLP in Pakistan, for example, but it seems that something is holding him back. Maybe, after some recent threats he received, he has sobered a bit.

He does harp on jihad quite frequently, but there is no incisive analysis, but why should he bear the burden alone, he may be thinking. That is because since he is one of the very few voices, his responsibility increases manifold, but if he is satisfied with his performance, what can I say?

Sushil is the only activist who used to 'like' my comments on his Twitter feed. He never replied. One day, I questioned him on his fascination for Daityanath, and after that I never got any 'likes.' If Sushil had talked to me, I (though many years his junior) would have explained to him that we cannot keep making the same mistake again and again. Daityanath is showing no signs that he is better than Modi. Apart from being complicit in the murder of the dissident Hindu Kamlesh Tiwari, he also like Modi has shown a penchant for encounters and other stunts.

There is no doubt that these tactics may win votes, but beyond that there is no policy. Take the much hyped love jihad laws for example. They are nothing but a bluff directed at the Hindus.  Neither love nor jihad finds any mention in the laws. If a poor girl runs away with a Muslim, then these activists make her life miserable, but if a Bollywood or TV star marries a Muslim, then we do not hear a squeak. What all this Hindu activism amounts to in practice is much ado about nothing. A veteran activist like Sushil should be doubly cautious about recommending any person for the post of PM just on the basis of hope.

If I were to support Daityanath, which is impossible given his track record, I would at least ask him to lay out his plan for Kashmir. I would set conditions, but who knows who Sushil's background supporters are.

The other guy most visible in mainstream media is Sushil Ambardar, but he has never tried to have any conversation with me though I try to comment on his tweets whenever I find the time. What I find ridiculous about him is his occasional support for Panun Kashmir, which is as junk as Akhand Bharat. How can any serious activist peddle such sentimental trash? He does keep tweeting about Kashmir history on and off. Once, he remarked about a military solution to Kashmir, but other than that I find nothing remarkable about him. 

The other well-known activist is Ashok Pandit. The minute he starts shouting, you can be assured that nobody will hear anything. He is the least articulate of the three. Inspite of being in the Bollywood industry, his communication skills are abysmal.

Recently, Arti Tikoo is gaining in prominence, but I neither follow her on Twitter nor on mainstream media. So I cannot say much about her at all.

Then there is the careerist Amitabh Mattoo who happens to be the favourite dhimmi of all Kashmiri parties, who include him in their bureaucratic meddling all the time. So apart from being involved in all kinds of backroom machinations, no one can  really fathom how he is continuing to uphold the KP cause.

Another popular Kashmiri dhimmi is the bald surgeon(whose name I keep forgetting), who has to cling to this party or other for God knows what.

Kuch bhi ho sakta hai lekin Anupam Kher kabhi saccha KP activist nahi ban sakta. Kailash Kher is trying to compete with the Sufis of Kashmir. Good luck to him.

Another activist that I happened to notice  on Twitter was the Jammu-based Prof. Hari Om. He spends most of his time sending inane tweets to Modi and Amit Shah and urging people to vote for them because these two are the only hope. He calls himself a professor but campaigns for implementation of such outdated agendas such as UCC. Why I included him in this is because like most RSS folks, these people are stuck with with a totally stale agenda and are unwilling to accept some fresh ideas.

Sushant Sareen wrote an article explaining how the govt.'s tough policy had eliminated more terrorists than ever before and how elections were seeing record participation. He looked like a respectable character to me once.

Then there was the flash-in-the-pan Samriddhi Bindroo. She is one of the brave-new-Indian-girl brigades that the BJP likes to drool on. Like her mentor Modi, her posturing was picture perfect. She challenged the killers to a debate on the real meaning of the Quran. She boasted that while KPs like her focus on education and get job opportunities anywhere in the world, Muslims too should get education and progress in life. You know what that reminded me of?

That famous scene from Indian cinema--Aaj mere paas education hai, job hai, gaadi hai, bangla hai, tumhare paas kya hai? And the villain smirks, Aaj mere mutthi me kashmir hai, aur kal mere mutthi me bharat ki betiyaan hogi, ha ha ha. Like the fraud Modi, Indian women are falling for the Vijay syndrome that progress is the only thing that matters. Put on a brave face and carry on like nothing has happened. Not long back, another Hindu had died and his daughter also echoed such sentiments, but  she has not been heard of since. Why do not Kashmiri women come together and see if they can teach their nikamma males some lesson?

That takes me back to my personal experience in one of my old jobs. For the first time, I met a Kashmiri woman, a middle-aged lady, whose family had migrated long before 1990. She was a talkative kind and she approached me. So I questioned her about the Kashmir problem. It is the unemployment, she said. I did not argue with her, but that set me thinking. Why are Kashmiris hiding from the truth?  I was not too familiar with her. So she must have been guarded. Obviously, they have realized that they have to move on. They have given up on politicians, and activists. Another reason could have been that she was a newly enthusiastic supporter of the AAP party, which was on the rise at that time. So Kashmiri women have become politically savvy too.

In between, the cricket lover Amit Shah made a flying visit to Kashmir to declare that the govt was on the verge of success and had almost completely eliminated terrorism from the valley. The minute he left for Jammu, celebrations erupted in Srinagar celebrating Pakistan's victory over India. Especially, the cabaret dancers of Srinagar Medical College who had practiced hard for their hoori roles in jannat broke into Jive Jive Pakistan and Allah hu Akbar. Forget Shah, what was Bindroo saying and what is Chetan Bhagat saying, that Kashmiris should get an education. This is blatant incoherence at the highest level. Our  collective national intelligence is failing. We are jabbering in a complete intellectual vacuum. And when the Kashmiri Muslim business man died in an encounter, his daughter seemed far from illiterate. She too was a doctor like Bindroo. Will we stop kidding ourselves? The reason is very simple. It is the economy that has made the Hindutvawadis of yesteryears delirious. They show complete disdain for the principles that they once professed.

In the interval between my last post and this one, I stumbled upon a link to a webinar on the Moplah massacre by Madhu Kishwar on Ajeet Bharti's Twitter handle. It was something new, and I decided to attend it. It was quite informative. I had commented on Madhu's tweets before, and as usual she has never noticed me, or maybe she pretends so. So I was unsure of what to expect, asi it was my first such experience. So when she picked up a few of my comments for expert review, I was a bit surprised, but what astonished me was her Gandhi and commie bashing.

I also am no fan of Gandhi, but to lay the blame for the communalization of Indian politics at his doorstep and even exonerate Jinnah felt over the top. The communalization of Indian politics goes back to the Morley-Minto reforms, which introduced the communal electorate and Gandhi was nowhere on the scene then. Gandhi, the dhimmi mahatma, may have appeased Muslim sentiments but he never made any political promises to the Muslims. And then she went on about the the global commie-jihad nexus. I commented about the capitalist-jihad nexus. When she picked up my comment, she dismissed it outright. There is no such nexus, she declared with full authority. Coming from an avowed Truthwinger, that flummoxed me. All the other panelists, which included Niraj Atri and Shyam Saran,  concurred with her.

Now anybody can tell you that the capitalist jihad dates back from the Saudi revolt against the Ottomans to the recent Afghan debacle. Communists seem to be just repaying the capitalists in the same coin. So this narrative of commie-jihad nexus seems to be motivated by the present theme in the US politics. Commies in India have been ousted from Bengal and are barely holding on to Kerala. So hyping the commie-jihadi threat seems like peddling the US narrative in India, and that is not what I expect from Madhuji. But who knows who her handlers are?

Another person I met in that webinar was Ajay Chrungoo. I still do not know what Panun Kashmir does, because he is rarely if ever seen on TV, but he acquitted himself well.

The experience enthused me quite a bit, and it felt like a new channel to express my views. So when the rival Hindu and anti-Hindu conferences came up at the same time, I leapt at the opportunity. I registered myself and woke up early to attend the conferences, which seemed to be superimposed on each other. I was calculating which one I would attend and which I would give a miss. When I logged in, the link was empty. Then I discovered  that both were EST, not IST.

So I logged in again in the evening and learnt for the first time how to juggle both windows and listen to one speaker while reading the subtitles in the other, but unfortunately, since they went on late in the night, my huge hopes were crushed because sleep is one thing I do not compromise on. So I caught some of the Hindu lectures, but the anti-Hindu lectures seemed to be more of a few overenthusiastic young Indian activists and a foreign interviewer having some light-hearted fun, nothing like anything portrayed in the Arnab Goswami-type nationalist media.

Subsequently, however, I have been unable to get advance notice of any new webinars, nor do I have the time to keep monitoring who is hosting them, though they seem to be very common nowadays. Surely, Madhuji can send me a notice if she needs my valuable comments, but does she remember me now? I do not think she has an elephantine memory. So my initial enthusiasm has been tempered quite a bit though I am wanting to get back on the circuit.

But then, it raises an important question? Why are both the conferences based in the US? Is there a concerted attempt to replicate the US model in India?

So now I am going to present my Kashmir toolkit.

1. It begins with the question "IS KASHMIR AN INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEM?" Then what is Chetan Bhagat doing in today's Indian Express talking about building Kashmir's economy. Where are the Kashmiri activists who should be taking him to task? Where is the bite? Why can I only hear some routine barks? We need to make life hell for these people. Is that what we learnt from the 20 US years in Afghanistan, that India's first transgender chaiwala is going to do what the Americans could not do in Afghanistan? Like a snakeoil salesman, Modi has only one solution for everything, infrastructure.

2. KPs should be targeting these fake ideologues providing coverfire for fraud politicians. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should not dictate terms to our clueless chowkidaar. Let Kamala Harris be forewarned, she dare not play her human rights cards in Kashmir, and Madhuji can do so much if she listens to me, but she is so busy bashing commies. Harris should not raise her head, otherwise we will have to stuff hot masala dosas in her mouth.

3. Don't pretend that encounters will end jihad. What action has been taken against the cabaret dancers or the Pakistani cricket fans? What deradicalization does the govt always pretend to be conducting? The BJP's Kashmir policy has completely eroded all their claims to be nationalist or Hindutvawaadis and exposed them as crooks making a quick buck at the cost of Hindu interest.

4. KPs should not limit themselves to just the Kashmir issue but try to build economic, political, and military think tanks to provide alternative policies for these issues.

5. Do not just talk vaguely about jihad but link it to Allah, Muhammad, and Quran.

6. Women like Madhu Kishwar should point out that Islam and Allah are not compatible with feminism. I had tweeted to her that consent of a woman to nikah without knowledge of Islam cannot be valid, but she turns a deaf ear to me. What can I do? 

7. Some experts like Brigadier Dayal peddle the line that insurgency cannot be won without winning the hearts and minds of the people. The focus should be on detoxification of intellects. Such fraud expertise has to be blacklisted. In fact the 1 lakh crores of aid for Kashmir has created a military/politician nexus of corruption. Fake pride of the military should not be encouraged.

8. Mohammad should be the number one target  of KPs. Demand protection from the government if you are scared. In fact, Gandhi's concept of serial satyagraha could come in handy here. One KP at a time should volunteer for the satyagraha, and his security should be funded by KPs, but his sole mission should be to target Mohammed. The recent conversion of Jitender Tyagi is a welcome development in this direction. I myself would have loved to target Mohammed, but since nobody knows me I cannot do much.

9. Demand reservation for apostates and KPs in the Kashmir government.

10. Geofacts should take precedence over geopolitics and geoeconomics. The first geofact is that Islam is not a religion. The second is that democracy is Islam's sleeping partner. This global Islamodemocratic criminal nexus should be the focus and not the commie-jihad nexus, which is just a bogey for politicians who do not want real action. Democracy is nothing but the criminalization of the mainstream. Vested interests manipulate the masses for wealth and power and use women to sell the plan to the masses. Some of the star activists above do not wish to appear undemocratic, but it does not help.

11. In keeping with the second geofact, elections should not be a priority. They are just a liability, but at least bar politicians who do not reject nizam-e-mustafa, sharia, burkha etc. If the govt. cannot come up with such reasonable legislation, what right do they have to claim to be nationalist?

12. Demand hefty blood money from the family of those who indulge in acts of terrorism, unless they give up Islam. Why has no one thought about this before?

13. If our civilian judges cannot get over their dhimmitude, then establish military courts with clear protocols to monitor them to deliver speedy justice to jihadis.

14. Those Muslims who deny the reality of jihad should not be eligible for any political post to begin with. The restrictions will then have to be extended in a stepwise manner to all other important positions in society, including cricket or films.

I could come up with many other suggestions, but what is the use if nobody is interested. My toolkit is better than the Doval doctrine or the Kissinger doctrine or the Biden-Harris doctrine. It should get the same weightage as Greta Thunberg's toolkit. But how will anybody come to know of it? I am challenging these veterans to come up with their individual action plans and then to come up with a collective action plan better than mine. Perhaps, they feel that my plan is too in your face to succeed, and that they have better secret plans that they will divulge at the appropriate time.

The problem with most Hindus today, especially of the RSS-BJP type, is that they do not give much importance to facts in their scheme of things, which happens to be elections and the fraud Vikas agenda. In my next post, I am going to rip off the new saffron track suits of the RSS, along with their soiled khaki knickers, and examine the color of their langots.