Alsadeeqalameen
Politcal Worker (100+ posts)
Before the partition of the Indian sub-continent, Muslims were and still are in the majority, living in the occupied Kashmir. They did not want to live under the Hindu domination, subjugation, inequality of justice, religious prejudice, hatred and indignation in the form of imposed Hindu rule and opted for an independent Kashmir. Kashmir was never a part of India, the people of Kashmir have been voting against the so-called maharaja since 1922. In the year 1946 the National Conference made a declaration called "Quit Kashmir" against the maharaja and drawing attention of the British raj to Kashmir's claim to freedom on after the British left India. Even after the independence of India, Kashmir did not join India and opted for an independent state. But as the situation grew intense, the majority of the population of Kashmir was at loggerheads with the maharaja because of his atrocities towards the Muslims. The people of Kashmir unanimously opined against the accession of Kashmir to Indian union but the cunning maharaja and the clever Indian government decided to go against the wishes of the majority and Jawaharlal Nehru accepted the accession on the pretext that once the situation returned to normal, the people of Kashmir would be given freedom to decide their own destiny - which to date the Indian government has never allowed. Ever since, the Kashmiris are fighting for their freedom. They were never allowed to choose their own destiny that manipulating Jawaharlal Nehru betrayed them.
Ever since over 360,000 Kashmiri Muslims have been killed, maimed, or disappeared without a trace and tales of horrendous torture and rape of young girls and women are heard in almost every Muslim household. An Indian writer, Pankaj Mishra, was told by officials at one Srinagar hospital a couple of years ago that they witnessed hundreds of cases of death by acute renal failure, caused by putting human bodies in army interrogation centres called Papa 1 and Papa 2 and putting living Kashmiris under the steam rollers and squashing like a pulp. This is happening even now. India and Pakistan have already fought three inconclusive wars over Kashmir, and a fourth was narrowly averted recently. There can be properly negotiated solutions to the question of Kashmir only if the Muslims are free to choose their future. In the long term, only a plebiscite among Kashmiris on both sides of the border, as ordered by a United Nations Security Council resolution of 1948, can hope to resolve the issue.
The genocide of over 2,500 Muslims spanning three months in the western state of Gujarat by the right-wing Hindu nationalists groups, a barbarity resembling that in Rwanda and of the Nazis against the Jews. Pregnant women were ripped open and burnt, women and girls gang-raped before being hacked to death with swords, and little children butchered. Ethnic cleansing and communal violence is sparked by the so-called "saffron mob" to intimidate minorities. Indians claim to be secular and proud of it, which is unbelievable and preposterous under these circumstances. When ethic cleansing was carried out by Hindu mob, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendar Modi put on blindfolds when all this was happening. The Hindu fundamentalist mob was looking to assert their anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda to boost their party.
Across the state 180 mosques were damaged or destroyed along with thousands of Muslims owned businesses and homes. The attackers with swords, machetes, and iron bars carried computer print-outs listing the addresses of Muslims families homes and businesses and singled out, attacked, ransacked, and burnt with men, women and children locked from outside. They had supply of hundreds of gas cylinders made available to them by the local government, which they used for explosives. All the time the police turned blind eye when pregnant women were ripped open before being hacked to death with swords and knives and then burnt. Hundreds of children were set on fire, girls were gang raped and then cut open. It was the most dreadful and stomach-churning atrocity carried out by Hindu sub-human mob with evil and hate in their minds. The state government of Gujarat helped them and majority of them are walking free in their cities looking for another opportunity to dye their ugly hands with Muslim blood. It was genocide of unimaginable proportion that lasted over three months and resembled the holocaust of Rwanda and Nazi Germany. Much of the funding of Vishwa Hindu Parishad or World Hindu Council that has close links to BJP was to blame for co-coordinating much of the slaughter comes from expatriate Gujarati communities in the UK and America.
After 61 years of independence, India has achieved kuch nahi - nothing - for the 650 million Indian rural poor who live in abject poverty and cannot afford one meal a day, and are trapped in a miserable world without any prospects. They were poor 61 years ago and are even poorer now after 61 years despite India's rapid and steady economic growth of 8% for the last 10 years. Last year, the Asian Development Bank released a report confirming that despite the boom, the gap between the Indian rich and poor has widened beyond belief. One of the reasons for this gap is bad planning, failure to invest in health, education and social welfare, which has left hundreds of millions of poor Indians without any hope and dangerously low on survival prospects in their iniquitous society riddled with the Hindu caste system. The majority of these rural poor living in grinding poverty earn as little as 40 pence 80 US cents a day doing every menial job available when they migrate to towns and cities looking for work, and have to live in the worst slumps seen in the world. This poverty trap will never be broken in India as long as its poor are treated as untouchables and sub-humans.
Economists blame this demographic division because 49% of the Indian children under the age of six are malnourished, as evident from their skinny limbs, pale faces, empty stares and the plight of the miserable environment in which they live and grow. As the Indian rich grow fatter and fatter at the expense of the poor, it is alarming many pundits that this inequality and disparity could easily backfire and jeopardize the Indian claim to be the largest democracy. Increasingly the rural poor are getting agitated, and in October 2007, 200,000 villagers from 25 villages across India marched to the capital to protest and demonstrate against their neglect by their corrupt government of the rich for the rich and democracy of the rich, for the rich and by the rich. Everyone seems to be singing Bollywood songs these days but it is imperative to mention that Mumbai has become one of the biggest sin capitals of the world where sun sets in midday and nights are for lewd debauchery and sex in every available corner. One has to just look across from a top floor of a multi--story apartment flat of a filthy rich to see the shanty towns, slumps and abject poverty in which millions of poor live worse than rats living in gutters.
On the other side, the India's urbanized middle class instead of sitting in the lotus position by the banks of Ganges as their forefathers used to do; they are lying on the couches of their psychiatrists seeking solutions to their newly acquired, adopted and photocopied Western problems. They now prefer to take cocaine, amphetamines and drink until they fall flat on the streets rather than do old yoga to improve their inner self. More and more are consulting American-style psychiatrists to combat the pressure of modern life sitting in their resource centres and answering phone calls sorting out queries of their customers from abroad and, funny enough, copying the American accent. A recent survey of the psychiatrists in New Delhi showed a 40% increase in clients in the last two years. Young Indians who are fortunate enough to find a job, which is almost a miracle, work long hours like robots to meet their huge ambitions. There are many corner-shop psychiatrists as well as legal and illegal abortion clinics doing a flourishing trade in big cities of India. In particular, there is increasing demand of the clinics to terminate illegitimate pregnancies running rampant in the young girls going to schools and colleges. These urbanized Indians photocopying the Western immoral way of life are abandoning their Hindu gods and are seeking guidance taking heavy drugs and indulgence in debauchery and unsolicited sex. Many of the resource centres where boys and girls, men and women work 24 hours a day in shifts are like whore-houses where open air sex is taking place in modern cubicles on the floor a[or desks. It is said that some of the offices drainage system often gets blocked by the thrown away condoms.
India is fast becoming a shameless and gutless society following in the footsteps of Western insidious materialism and capricious capitalism. India's democratic system has miserably failed and let down its poor whereas it has immensely benefited the privileged few and rich. The wealthy and emerging middle classes are so oblivious of the miserable existence of the poor and do not even wish to look into the abject poverty in which they live. Indian Democracy is a deception and a delusion which has allowed lewdness, immorality and dishonesty to flourish for the benefit of the capitalists and dishonest politicians.
Ever since over 360,000 Kashmiri Muslims have been killed, maimed, or disappeared without a trace and tales of horrendous torture and rape of young girls and women are heard in almost every Muslim household. An Indian writer, Pankaj Mishra, was told by officials at one Srinagar hospital a couple of years ago that they witnessed hundreds of cases of death by acute renal failure, caused by putting human bodies in army interrogation centres called Papa 1 and Papa 2 and putting living Kashmiris under the steam rollers and squashing like a pulp. This is happening even now. India and Pakistan have already fought three inconclusive wars over Kashmir, and a fourth was narrowly averted recently. There can be properly negotiated solutions to the question of Kashmir only if the Muslims are free to choose their future. In the long term, only a plebiscite among Kashmiris on both sides of the border, as ordered by a United Nations Security Council resolution of 1948, can hope to resolve the issue.
The genocide of over 2,500 Muslims spanning three months in the western state of Gujarat by the right-wing Hindu nationalists groups, a barbarity resembling that in Rwanda and of the Nazis against the Jews. Pregnant women were ripped open and burnt, women and girls gang-raped before being hacked to death with swords, and little children butchered. Ethnic cleansing and communal violence is sparked by the so-called "saffron mob" to intimidate minorities. Indians claim to be secular and proud of it, which is unbelievable and preposterous under these circumstances. When ethic cleansing was carried out by Hindu mob, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendar Modi put on blindfolds when all this was happening. The Hindu fundamentalist mob was looking to assert their anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda to boost their party.
Across the state 180 mosques were damaged or destroyed along with thousands of Muslims owned businesses and homes. The attackers with swords, machetes, and iron bars carried computer print-outs listing the addresses of Muslims families homes and businesses and singled out, attacked, ransacked, and burnt with men, women and children locked from outside. They had supply of hundreds of gas cylinders made available to them by the local government, which they used for explosives. All the time the police turned blind eye when pregnant women were ripped open before being hacked to death with swords and knives and then burnt. Hundreds of children were set on fire, girls were gang raped and then cut open. It was the most dreadful and stomach-churning atrocity carried out by Hindu sub-human mob with evil and hate in their minds. The state government of Gujarat helped them and majority of them are walking free in their cities looking for another opportunity to dye their ugly hands with Muslim blood. It was genocide of unimaginable proportion that lasted over three months and resembled the holocaust of Rwanda and Nazi Germany. Much of the funding of Vishwa Hindu Parishad or World Hindu Council that has close links to BJP was to blame for co-coordinating much of the slaughter comes from expatriate Gujarati communities in the UK and America.
After 61 years of independence, India has achieved kuch nahi - nothing - for the 650 million Indian rural poor who live in abject poverty and cannot afford one meal a day, and are trapped in a miserable world without any prospects. They were poor 61 years ago and are even poorer now after 61 years despite India's rapid and steady economic growth of 8% for the last 10 years. Last year, the Asian Development Bank released a report confirming that despite the boom, the gap between the Indian rich and poor has widened beyond belief. One of the reasons for this gap is bad planning, failure to invest in health, education and social welfare, which has left hundreds of millions of poor Indians without any hope and dangerously low on survival prospects in their iniquitous society riddled with the Hindu caste system. The majority of these rural poor living in grinding poverty earn as little as 40 pence 80 US cents a day doing every menial job available when they migrate to towns and cities looking for work, and have to live in the worst slumps seen in the world. This poverty trap will never be broken in India as long as its poor are treated as untouchables and sub-humans.
Economists blame this demographic division because 49% of the Indian children under the age of six are malnourished, as evident from their skinny limbs, pale faces, empty stares and the plight of the miserable environment in which they live and grow. As the Indian rich grow fatter and fatter at the expense of the poor, it is alarming many pundits that this inequality and disparity could easily backfire and jeopardize the Indian claim to be the largest democracy. Increasingly the rural poor are getting agitated, and in October 2007, 200,000 villagers from 25 villages across India marched to the capital to protest and demonstrate against their neglect by their corrupt government of the rich for the rich and democracy of the rich, for the rich and by the rich. Everyone seems to be singing Bollywood songs these days but it is imperative to mention that Mumbai has become one of the biggest sin capitals of the world where sun sets in midday and nights are for lewd debauchery and sex in every available corner. One has to just look across from a top floor of a multi--story apartment flat of a filthy rich to see the shanty towns, slumps and abject poverty in which millions of poor live worse than rats living in gutters.
On the other side, the India's urbanized middle class instead of sitting in the lotus position by the banks of Ganges as their forefathers used to do; they are lying on the couches of their psychiatrists seeking solutions to their newly acquired, adopted and photocopied Western problems. They now prefer to take cocaine, amphetamines and drink until they fall flat on the streets rather than do old yoga to improve their inner self. More and more are consulting American-style psychiatrists to combat the pressure of modern life sitting in their resource centres and answering phone calls sorting out queries of their customers from abroad and, funny enough, copying the American accent. A recent survey of the psychiatrists in New Delhi showed a 40% increase in clients in the last two years. Young Indians who are fortunate enough to find a job, which is almost a miracle, work long hours like robots to meet their huge ambitions. There are many corner-shop psychiatrists as well as legal and illegal abortion clinics doing a flourishing trade in big cities of India. In particular, there is increasing demand of the clinics to terminate illegitimate pregnancies running rampant in the young girls going to schools and colleges. These urbanized Indians photocopying the Western immoral way of life are abandoning their Hindu gods and are seeking guidance taking heavy drugs and indulgence in debauchery and unsolicited sex. Many of the resource centres where boys and girls, men and women work 24 hours a day in shifts are like whore-houses where open air sex is taking place in modern cubicles on the floor a[or desks. It is said that some of the offices drainage system often gets blocked by the thrown away condoms.
India is fast becoming a shameless and gutless society following in the footsteps of Western insidious materialism and capricious capitalism. India's democratic system has miserably failed and let down its poor whereas it has immensely benefited the privileged few and rich. The wealthy and emerging middle classes are so oblivious of the miserable existence of the poor and do not even wish to look into the abject poverty in which they live. Indian Democracy is a deception and a delusion which has allowed lewdness, immorality and dishonesty to flourish for the benefit of the capitalists and dishonest politicians.
