Tuesday, December 28, 2010

kashmir: when thoughts strike action

It’s been so long since we are born that we are hearing about this issue-Kashmir which we all know even though not clearly. We know our country possesses some serious threats regarding the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Most of the time there are news’s of violence & military breakdown on the terrorists. But the last 2 months were rather too difficult to analyse. More mass of people that too common unarmed people were in streets demanding for Azadi. This really shocked me as I always believed that people living there always liked India and considered themselves as Indians rather strongly believed that our enemy country was the only one creating so much problems there. It was unbelievable seeing so many ladies and children out in the streets shouting against the security forces. Thoughts were made worse when I heard that the death toll of people rose to around 110 in just 1-2 months.

Then I started searching the facts about the northern most state of our country.

Historically, Jammu & Kashmir was a princely state at the time of Indian independence. Ruled by Maharaja Hari Singh it had a specialty being a Muslim majority state been ruled by a Hindu king. At the time of Independence, Maharaja took a stand that it wouldn’t join the Indian union or the Pakistan. But he had to soon change his opinion when the tribal invaders attacked Kashmir in October 1947.he had no other option but to ask help from India by joining Indian side. So the instrument of accession was signed and Kashmir became an integral part of India. But there were 2 things which the king asked in his pact.

· It is not necessary to abide the constitution of India.

· No provisions in the pact should curb the right of Kashmir to remain self governed.

This was assured by entrusting an article 306 (now article 370) to the constitution giving special provision to the state.then home minister, sardar vallabhai patel took interest and passed it in the parliament.

After this it wasn’t the governments act but it was due to the leader of national conference which was the majority in the state that helped the people to dissolve more into the Indian side.Shaikh Abdulla became the undisputed leadership of Jammu and Kashmir, and he believed that the 2 nation theory kept forward by Jinnah of Muslim league was rather too provocative. He dismissed that and told that J&K is a part of India and people living there are Indians first. He organized vast processions and demonstrations in support of Indian Government. He also became the first chief minister of J&K. Soon after that a Delhi agreement was made between Jawaharlal Nehru and Shaikh Abdulla. Important conditions of this agreement were:

· The conditions of article 370 will be granted.

· There would be special privileges for people of state in sectors like education, employment and ownership of land.

· There would be a separate flag for J&K under Indian flag.

· State would be having the power to appoint the Governer, But will take charge only with the permission of the President.

· Supreme Court for temporarily can only have the power to appeal.

· With only the permission of state government central emergency should be proclaimed in the state.

But these acts were soon become hot issues and more people in the ministry of India and opposition opposed it. Thus it never came into existence really. The provision of having 2 flags and 2 constitutions inside one country was not justifiable to a large section of politicians. So whatever was promised was restricted.

Since then the central government was the key factor (hand of Pakistan not seeing short) for making the situation of J&K worse. Pakistan had been using the situation and they played well. As a result of this there were great tensions around the valley during 90s. Culturally Kashmiris have a different way of Islam and Ethnicity. Its Islam was largely based on the Sufi culture. It was rather based on love and harmony. They had a tradition of living in harmony with the Hindu Pundits for centuries. More than an ethnicity of Islam, They had an ‘kashmiriyath’ ethnic. But it all finished with more and more movements which was aimed at ethnic cleansing of so called Sufi tradition to fundamental Islam. This made the life of pundits worse during the 90s.and they had moved abandoning their land and wealth to other parts of country, mostly to the capital city Delhi.

The situation slowly receded and people left the way they once considered would help them to liberate. They included and supported the democratic way by taking part in the elections and the Hurriyath lost its old support(it was the group that favoured liberation).

But the problems which are now are much caused by the inaction and false steps by both the state and central governments. The main cause is the AFPSA (armed forces special powers act).more than 5lakh military and paramilitary personals are deployed in the area. Ever recurring curfews and harassments by the people whom aimed at protecting people are the main causes of discontempt among people. Other acts such as PSA (public safety act), Disturbed Area Act etc.. are giving military huge power in the area. large scale misuse and suppression are the causes of ‘stone pelting ‘which can be compared to the one done by the Palestinian people towards Israel. The present situation was triggered by the murder of 2 girls in shopian also known as shopian murder case. It was alleged that military personals had raped these 2 girls and murdered them. But the present chief minister Omar Abdulla (ironically son of sheikh Abdulla) failed to take further actions. This created widespread agitation against the action of army. Rather than handling the volatile situation with Care, the central government tried to crush it forcefully. Many cases of violation of human rights have been found out after that. This includes killing of innocent people who were not at all included in the havoc. This again made situation worse and more people mainly youngsters and women came forward without caring the curfew. More shooting more murders more and more the situation became worse. When the situation was alarmingly critical then the government sent an all-party delegation to find out the problem. But it took death of 110 people to consider such a thing.

It is really pathetic that even after telling that Kashmir is Indian part, we are behaving quite indifferently. Would it happen in any part of our country. Killing such a large number of people and still we fail to discuss such a thing ?. I still consider and I like to believe that J&K is an integral part of India and we are all same Indians. But the J&K is wounded heavily now and what we needed is action and not inaction. What they needed is care and development and not forceful pressure and crushing their basic independence. We all look forward for a great future of peace and harmony. We believe that everything will be solved. I hope that too..I hope that the governments would act sensibly. I would like to see a united India rather than a land of never ending civil wars.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

india and pakisthan----a close encounter!

Compare military strength of Countries
Results:


India pakisthan

CURRENT GFP RANK
4 15
Total Population 1,147,995,904 172,800,048
Military Manpower Available 584,141,225 82,747,782
Fit for Military Service 467,795,073 63,822,970
Reaching Military Age Yearly 22,229,373 3,998,981
Active Military Personnel 1,325,000 650,000
Active Military Reserves 1,155,000 528,000
Active Paramilitary 1,293,300 302,000
Total Air-Based Weapons 1,007 710
Total Land-Based Weapons 10,340 3,919
Total Naval Units 143 33
Towed Artillery Systems 4,175 3,952
Merchant Marine Strength 501 14
Major Ports and Terminals 9 2
Aircraft Carriers 1 0
Destroyers 8 0
Frigates 16 9
Submarines 18 11
Patrol Coastal Craft 43 8
Mine Warfare Craft 12 3
Amphibious Operations Craft 7 0
Defense Budget / Expenditure $32,350,000,000 $4,260,000,000
Foreign Reserves $275,000,000,000 $15,690,000,000
Purchasing Power $2,966,000,000,000 $411,900,000,000
Oil Production 810,000 bbl 62,000 bbl
Oil Consumption 2,438,000 bbl 345,000 bbl
Proven Oil Reserves 5,700,000,000 bbl 376,800,000 bbl
Total Labor Force 516,400,000 48,230,000
Roadway Coverage 3,316,452 km 259,758 km
Railway Coverage 63,221 km 8,163 km
Waterway Coverage 14,500 km 25,220 km
Coastline Coverage 7,000 km 1,046 km
Major Serviceable Airports 346 146
Square Land Area 3,287,590 km 803,940 km

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Is this democracy??

i would like all of you to have a look at a recent issue that made me angry about the system.it was reported by many national media especially ndtv.the incident happened in tamil nadu on 7th january 2010.a sub inspector of police was attacked by some goons.they slashed his legs off!!.
hurt badly the inspector vetrivel was lying in pool of blood when health minister paneershelvam and another minister mohideen khan came through this way.neither of them stepped out of their car nor made any efforts to help the dying.the bleeding inspector was out there crying for help this time.it was only 29 minutes later,he was taken to hospital..but he had lost most of the blood by that time that he lost his life on the way.this incident was a very shocking thing.2 public servants that too ministers with lots of vested powers mocking a man who was pleading for his life..it was too shameful and injustifiable.if this is a situation of a police officer then what would be that of a common man with no higher contacts or powers.these types of incidents laydown the morale of the entire police force and they would surely believe that ther is no one to help them when attacked by such goondas..which will eventually prevent them from taking any action against them in future.
these ministers should be changed or proper actions should be taken against them...else it would be a demise to the total democratic system in this country.people should respond to such issues strongly rather keeping mum.how could such barbarians be allowed to rule us who shows less humanity.........

Thursday, June 4, 2009

ക്യാമ്പസ്‌ പൊളിറ്റിക്സ്:തിങ്ക്‌!


i have to say something about campus politics..,since am in students federation of india college committee.in these days i could hear from various corners about the bad impacts of politics in colleges and how they make students violent in their attitude.but i strongly oppose this view,since the facts such people might present before you are 80 percent their prejudistic view...and truth is much beyond that...its true that the value and truth in politics are diminishing nowadays,but this doesnt mean that we should avoid politics from our life and live wholly as a metropolitan tecknocrat.indians especially youth should discuss politics its right actions wrong actions and everything.they should mentally create an awareness about our country, its long struggles for freedom and hardships faced by so called old leaders.our youth should be vibrant and reactive towards various issues or they need to be.today as i read newspapers i found that many terrorist activities,bomb blasts etc ...are organised by so called the educated youth...we need to understand that these antisocial and anti national activities are done with the help of upcoming youth. militants and terrorist groups and various religious fundamentalist groups are acting through our colleges and they are trapping these students in their idiotic ideology.if a good student organisation is there i strongly believe that this will not happen.a good student organisation gives a student ideas about secularism,democracy and keeps him in matured state.