Archive for the 04. VIEWPOINT Category
J&K Interlocutors’ report
J&K Interlocutors’ report : A ‘compact’ to strengthen or weaken the bonds? By Ramesh Manvati June 2012 “…I will not let the Kashmiri Pandit community down. It is a shame that the community has been forced to live as refugees in their own country...”replied Dr. Dileep Padg
The Long Betrayal
PERSPECTIVE The Long Betrayal By Dr. M.K. Teng June 2012 The reports appearing in the Indian press, emanating from the statement made by the Home Ministry in the Parliament, on the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the exodus of the community of Hindus from Kashmir, that not a single
Suvir Koul’s & Natasha Koul’s Write-ups in the quarterly of IIC New Delhi
By Prof. M.L. Koul November 2011 In the latest issue of the quarterly published under the aegis of the India International Centre, New Delhi have appeared two write-ups, 'one Home, two lives' and 'Loving & Losing Kashmir', one by Suvir Koul and the other by Natasha Koul. Suvir Koul is a
Return of Hindus to Kashmir
By Dr. M.K. Teng November 2011 The ethnic cleansing of the Hindus of Kashmir in 1990, is one of the few episodes, which occurred after the second World War, and in which a whole community of people was subjected to genocide and driven out of its natural habitat. The terrorist violence with whi
Geelani is no longer taken seriously in Kashmir
For the benefit of our readers we reproduce an interview of Sh. Sanjay Tickoo, a non-displaced Kashmiri Pandit leader who stayed put all through in Valley. Mr Tickoo talked to Kunal Mujumdar of Tehelka Times in April 2011. --Editor Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s visit to Pandit camps is pointless-Sanj
The Islamist Impulse
The Islamist Impulse Haunting Pakistan By Ashok K. Behuria April 2011 It is a truism to say that the elite in Pakistan has used Islam to perpetuate its hold on power ever since the state came into being in 1947. The judiciary in Pakistan has been the latest to emphasise its Islamist crede
Sufi Militants Struggle
Sufi Militants Struggle with Deobandi Jihadists in Pakistan By Arif Jamal April 2011 As Punjab governor Salman Taseer came out of a restaurant in an upscale area of Islamabad, one of his bodyguards uttered the slogan “Allahu Akbar” and fired on the man he was supposed to guard, killing
Revisit Policy
Revisit Policy vis-a-vis Kashmiri Pandits By S.M. Pandit January 2011 There have been three significant judgments or interventions by three different courts vis-à-vis Kashmiri migrants recently. The first judgment was delivered by The Delhi High Court. The judgment was delivered on a bun
The Right to Define our Place
By Dileep Kumar Kaul January 2011 We have the habit of taking public space for granted as if it has continuously been there. Yet public space is always the expression of the intentions of some person or institution. Purposes are given to a place by a person or institution and it is put forwa
Pak- Kashmir Separatists’ axis
Is Pak- Kashmir Separatists’ axis coming un struck? By M.M. Khajooria January 2011 Unfamiliar voices were being heard from familiar personages in Kashmir separatist front. Skeletons were tumbling out of closets kept securely locked till the other day. Forbidden words borderi
Return of displaced Hindus …
Return of displaced Hindus to Kashmir the only problem Prof. Hari Om January 2011 New Delhi has wasted enough of its time in Kashmir and achieved nothing whatsoever. Kashmir continues to simmer and pose a grave challenge to the national unity and the very idea of India. In fact, the
Islamabad Conference
By M.K. Teng August 2010 The sudden outburst of anger with which the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Syed Mohamood Qureshi, reacted to what happened in the Foreign Ministers' Conference in Islamabad, needs to be considered more seriously. The acrimony which pervaded the conference has brought to
War
Is third world war welcome to wipeout terrorism? By JN Raina July 2010 Pakistan should cease to think of Kashmir. Time is not far away when it will forget about its own existence; when third world war will begin to wipeout Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. The situation is developing fast. Time is ri
Violent Valley
Time to act tough by Prof. Hari Om July 2010 During the last about 20 days, the Kashmir Valley witnessed violent activities on an unprecedented scale. What had added a new dimension to the ongoing over 20-year-old secessionist and communal movement in Kashmir was the sudden rise of unruly gr
Omar’s Rehabilitation Policy
FIRMING UP INSURGENCY & SEPARATISM By Yoginder Kandhari April 2010 Omar Abdullah, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, has announced that his government intends to bring back ‘misguided’ Kashmiri youth who have crossed over to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Pakistan, obv
Kashmiri Pandits – the Victims of Denial
By Mahesh Kaul April 2010 A lot of hue and cry was raised by the J&K government by creating the so called Apex Committee to oversee the return and rehabilitation of the Kashmiri Hindus to their original habitat Kashmir. The atmosphere was ripe with the speculation of permutations
Accession of J&K to India is Complete
By Mahesh Kaul May 2010 The partition of the Indian subcontinent should be seen in the perspective of the Anglo-Muslim alliance that was forged by the British to retain their strategic foothold in the Indian subcontinent to have an access to the Russian activities and the appreciable influen
Defending the Frontiers
By Dr. M.K. Teng May 2010 After the Foreign Secretary level talks between India and Pakistan, the meeting between the Prime Ministers of the two countries in Bhutan, has exposed the inconsistencies in the politics followed by India in dealing with what the Indian Government has called ‘ cross bo
Stake Holders in Jammu and Kashmir
By Dr. M.K. Teng April 2010 When the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh expressed the decision of the Government of India to to take on board all the ‘stake holders’ of Jammu and Kashmir in order to reach a settlement , he was in real terms proposing a paradigm shift in the Indian sta
The Dissolution of National Frontiers
By Dr. M.K. Teng February 2010 The nature of the failure of Indian Leadership: THE Indian leadership did not realize that the partition of India had also brought about the territorial division of India. They were unable to comprehend the importance of princely States in the determin
Non-territorial Settlement
By Prof. M.K. Teng November 2009 Engagement with Pakistan, which the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Man Mohan Singh has commended to the Indian People as “a way forward” to establish a relationship of peace, is in real terms a prescription for the second partition of India. The composite dial
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