I will put my comments. but, it will be long as this line of articles are pretty common in the West and tend to repeat itself.
During colonial times, "Minority can't live under Majority" is the British excuse to create one Muslim nation (Pakistan) and other nation called India. Though India(aka Majority Hindus) are secular in practice but there is NO uniform civil Code. Hindu laws were changed left and right. Muslims has their religious rules which is different from equality of population. Obviously touching Muslim laws is a hell of problem, but the none the less Modi would have done very easily if he had majority. But being what he is, he will try in his third term ( called '
secular civil code'), but won't be that easy.
Muslim nation Pakistan couldn't keep itself as one ( now Pakistan and Bangladesh) for even 25 years. Colonial Narration's later version is "Hindus are Killing Muslims" and is used for so many political purposes outside India. Given that modern intelligentsia got educated on History laced with colonial historical background (aka censorships and control), they can't see any thing different. It doesn't matter what the ground reality is and West is too sure of their things in the name of "Science". That doesn't mean, every thing is peaceful, tension does keep coming back.
India is so diverse, you can get any flavor you want and add it what ever the base you want and you can propagate it according to one's needs. That is what colonial Britain did and continue to do if it fits its agenda. Latest being is Soros/Obama & Co, making public statements before this year elections saying south India is different from North India. Whether nation (aka its people) will learn the lesson from Colonial era or not , its a question only time will tell.
India's foreign policy is unconventional w.r.t Western self-proclaimed binary "reality" - NATO vs WARSAW , capitalism vs communism , you against me and so on. Worse, West can't even perceive any thing different than that. When India got independent in 1947, it neither chose communism nor capitalism. It is more like communist 5 year financial planning with democracy with strict control over industry that produced elephant paced growth and created License Raj
bureaucracy with colonial entitled mindset. Obviously it didn't work.
Remember recent German politician claiming "
West is a Garden and Rest is Jungle" non sense. But West already forgot the basic fact that mere 200 years back, there were so many "Native American" or "American Indian" tribes with complete diverse way of life (and fought with each other) to the point, most wondered whether there is a commonality between the native American tribes . That is the success of modern Propaganda of "development" of so-called "Science", "statistics" and "education" to streamline masses.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/20...-indian-occupied-kashmir-where-is-the-outcry/
Trying to get my head around India and its trajectory. Now some things look at odds and other things don't. In this respect, came across the above article written by Jeremy Kuzmarov on the U.S. doing what it does so well, spreading and financing weapons sales:
Before I know the trajectory of my own life ( forget about the country) 30 years back, I read in a publication my neighbor subscribes to (from his spiritual guru in Bangalore). There was prediction in it that said "India will become power and
challenge super power China during
the end of time". No need to say I called it "BS" and "Non sense". Obviously we all heard many predictions in our life and we tend to revisit them only if one finds it relevant in future.
- China utterly defeated off-guard India in 1962, snatched part of Ladhak leaving Nehru discredited and crippled to his death.
- China was not power in any sense at that time and forget about India challenging China.
- 30 years back, India was on the verge of bankruptcy with only had 3 weeks of foreign currency for gas purchases and forget about all else. In an desperate attempt, then Indian prime minister
- Punjab (Nothing to do with Muslims, thanks to US supplies to Pakistan ( Afghan war) transferred to Sikh separatists) and Kashmir were burning daily news ( same supplies to Muslim separatists in Jammu & Kashmir) of countless murders. 100K Jammu Hindus forced to migrate out of Jammu.
- There are many problems that country had including assassination of Rajiv Gandhi ( By Tamil Militants) and early days of Left vs Right realignments etc.
Let me parse the article.
In early February, the U.S. State Department
approved nearly $4 billion in drone sales to India, adding to the
$20 billion worth of U.S.-origin defense material the U.S. had sold to India since 2008.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller
said afterwards that “the U.S.-India defense partnership has seen significant growth over the past decade,” noting that the sale of 31 MQ-9B SkyGuardian aircraft made by General Atomics “offered significant potential to further advance strategic technology cooperation with India and military cooperation in the region.”
True, India's Military expenditure with West has increased recently as it diversified its supplies as Russia military aircrafts keep on crashing and killing people. As a buyer why one should need to bogged down with the ideology?
The Biden administration has sought to court India as part of its efforts to counter China in the Indo-Pacific region, while prying it away from Russia.
True, West wants to influence India and that is part of Geopolitics of any country in any era.
Biden
called the U.S.-India relationship “the defining partnership of the 21st century,” while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
said t
hat our countries’ ties are “shaping lives, dreams, and destinies.”
He makes similar statement even if one is Trump or Putin or Hillary or Biden. Nothing new there. Modi is a rare politician who can touch any person from street corner beggar to World leader. That is his selling point that perfected being street Tea seller to his RSS volunteer to low level party worker to accidental chief minister of Gujarat in 2001.
Farhan M. Chak’s recent book, Nuclear Flashpoint: The War Over Kashmir (London: Pluto Press, 2024), shows that many of the lives and destinies are being shaped in horrific ways.
Horror is part of most of the countries, particularly a nation that doesn't depend on currency that comes out of thin air. Thank the overlords.
This is particularly true of the Muslim majority in Indian-occupied Kashmir, one of the most militarized spaces on the planet, which has become a nuclear flashpoint as Modi’s government intensifies tensions with Pakistan and China.
This stick of "Nuclear War" is remnant of West's Cold war programming to sell the books and articles. That's why I find it interesting when Putin uses 'Nuclear threat' to calm West down.
It doesn't mean it wouldn't happen. Let's not forget that tensions are colonial creations and nothing unique to that area. That's why they fight with stones, fists and sticks. Can the Western countries do that?
hak is a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University and Secretary General of Kashmir Civitas, an organization committed to the emancipation of Kashmir.
Hak's narrow views and bias is obvious in his book and the article author is only repeating the same biases.
Several of his family members were killed in the 1947 genocide in Kashmir perpetrated by the Hindu Dogra family, which was installed by the British and would not cede power peacefully following the demise of the British Empire and the formation of the independent nations of India and Pakistan.
.5 to 1.5 Million were killed during 1947 India Pakistan division and Hindu- Muslim migrations across the border when Britain tried to hand wash India with 3 months notice. Who was not effected? In fact that emotional scars exist in every India, whether It is Hindu or Muslim.
Kashmiri Muslims trace the beginning of their occupation to the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar signed between the British East India Company and Raja Gulab Singh, the chief of the Dogra family, in which all of Kashmir was sold for the paltry sum of 7.5 million rupees without the population’s consent.
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Kashmir existed LONG before 1846 and There are many Sanskrit texts written many many thousands years ago.
The Dogras were given military support by the British to sustain their rule over the Muslim Kashmiris whom they treated as slaves. In return, the Dogras promised the British overlords the cannon fodder their imperialistic endeavors required.
Heck, British did this to every body, lower caste vs upper caste, south vs north, brahmin vs non-brahmin, neighbor vs neighbor. Whatever worked British did to claim themselves overlords of "uncivilized" people and but India was their "Crown Jewel". But their "glory" ended with WW II where Hitler tried to create "Aryan Race". But When we look at where "Aryan business" came from during the recent times, that too came from Indian Sanskrit texts though racial purity business doesn't exist( except in some remote corners).
After the signing of the Treaty of Amritsar, the last indigenous sovereign ruler of Kashmir, Yusuf Shah Chak, a d
irect ancestor of Farhan M. Chak, was imprisoned and poisoned to death.[2]
so, this "Muslims are victims and Hindu's are aggressors" binary narration is personal projection to appeal gullible western "virtue value" system.
In early 1931, a rebellion erupted after a
Hindu police officer was charged with desecrating the Holy Quran, forcing the British to send three companies of armed troops to support the suppression of the rebellion by the Dogra rulers.
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Whether that is Hindu officer or some body else, violence erupts even to day. What about saga's like Charlee Hubdo or Satanic Verses and other immigrant violence in modern day West?
The violence served as a prelude to the 1947 genocide where Chak has estimated that between 237,000 and 500,000 Kashmiri Muslims were killed.
[4] Afterwards, two new political entities—India and Pakistan—were created, with parts of Kashmir incorporated into both.
Kashmir, Punjab, Bengal are borders of land when India Pakistan division happened and Millions of families that lived for centuries with their small scale livelihood forced to relinquish every thing to migrate on foot, bullock carts, crowded small trains. Around Million died. That is nothing specific to Kashmiri Muslims. people died all over the place and it took few generations for the people piece together and that is nothing specific "Muslim"
In October 1947,
Kashmiris fought with Pakistani irregular forces in liberating Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan from the Dogra. When Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh appealed to India for military support, they formed an alliance on the condition that Singh would yield the Muslim majority state of Kashmir to India, which has controlled much of them ever since.
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Detailed documented literature exist with details of (day to day updates) to say It is Kashmiri's who alerted Indian authorities and blocking the crucial junctions. It is not even Pakistani regulars who invaded, it is Pakistani "mercenaries" who invaded India that is why India even able to retain a piece. Why? Nehru hated war, so his focus was not there on Kashmir. He wants to trust his comrade Shiek Abdullah, fellow freedom fighter to control the situation. Well,
Kashmiris, however, do not see Indian control as legitimate because the Maharaja was an imposed ruler placed over Kashmir by British madate, not the indigenous people who were never consulted.
That is true for the rest of India too. Nothing unjust in it. The problem statement during Gandhi's fight is based on British 'divide and rule'. So unite when they left before things goes out of control.
The Indian government’s entire narrative today in legitimating their rule in Kashmir rests on their armed intervention being a consequence of a “tribal invasion by Pakistan” that they supposedly defended India against.
However, Pakistanis were well within their rights to try to liberate the oppressed Muslim people of Kashmir, who had been subjected to genocide and have been heavily persecuted ever since.
So does Indians have "right" to defend their territory.
Significantly, Indian troops who participated in the genocide had been stationed in Kashmir
before the “Pakistani tribal invasion,” and a Hindu Prime Minister was removed and then imprisoned after he vocally opposed Kashmir’s accession to India.
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Lot of killings and imprisonments happened during those chaotic times. One has to remember India is very dense country and livelihood of each other dependent on each other.
Objective analysts today refer to India’s position in Kashmir as one of “unlawful occupation” going back to the 1940s.
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What is Objective or who are those analysts who can decide the territorial claims of others?
Chak estimates that, over the last 30 years
, nearly 100,000 Kashmiri Muslims have been killed by Indian occupation troops.
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In my view it is absolute NON SENSE. This author absolutely has no clue of "passion" of Indian Muslim. I will give one example. Recently Modi fired one of his party member for slipping her guard in saying Mohammad married a child. It is written in their texts. But when Iran got involved, he sensed something going out of control.
The current Indian government led by Narendra Modi promotes a mythic historical narrative while attempting to tighten its rule over Kashmir and Hinduize it.
Recently C's confirmed Vedic Aryan "religion" as long back as 16,000 years (where British Indologists insist on 2nd millennium migration). Kashmir is in the migration path from outside. Enough texts s exist to prove that lot of people occupied this land over this long period. Not just 1864.
Modi is a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has ruled India since 2014.
What is Hindu even mean? Best honest answer is "It is way of Life". What does it even mean? - set of practices, believes, rituals and so on.
What is wrong being "nationalistic" or taking care of your own needs? West used "nationalism" to send people to global occupation , does it mean every body does the same?
When Modi was governor of Gujarat in the mid 2000s, he was banned from entering the U.S. over religious violence that he helped to incite.
If US banned means, he is guilty of Crime? Communal violence is there before Modi ( started with British mess up in late 19th century) and will be there after Modi too. That is sad part of Human life in 3D on this planet.
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criminal complaint filed in an Australian court charged Modi with ordering police to stand aside and allow Hindu mobs to rampage across Muslim-majority areas, resulting in the deaths of about 2,000 people and the destruction of the homes and businesses of 20,000 Muslims.
2000 is correct, but 1200 Muslims and 800 Hindus. The killing started with live burning of hundreds Hindus on the train returning from Hindu pilgrimage. When this type of massacre happens, it's no joke of controlling and it's not as easy as writing biased article or throwing some theory.
As India’s Prime Minister, Modi has furthered discriminatory policies against Muslims while helping to transform Kashmir into what Chak calls an “open air prison” reminiscent of Gaza pre- and post-October 7.
Gaza comparison is absolute non sense. Sure there are restrictions.
Chak reports on forced conversions and land thefts by the Indian government, and “cow vigilantism,” where BJP supporters roam the Kashmiri countryside searching for those whom they claim are unlawfully slaughtering cows who they steal from and then lynch.
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Cow vigilantism is nothing specific to Kashmir. It started 1960's when the Muslim supporting Congress party and spread gradually. When Journalists tried to gather stats of "cow Vigilantism" deaths in Modi era. it is 10 more than congress period 30. So much noise made by Indian Left, it is unbelievable.
Some BJP officials have openly called for ethnic cleansing along the Israeli model in Gaza.
It is a country 1.4 billion people. Some opportunistic nut case politician will there whether Muslim supporting Congress or BJP.
The reputable NGO Genocide Watch, led by Dr. Gregory Stanton, has issued two genocide alerts for Kashmir. Muslim rights are being systematically violated there through extrajudicial killings, unlawful arrest, torture and forced displacement.
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No wonder Modi shut down 40,000 NGO's for not documenting the income and expense. Most of them are linked to George Soros & Co.
The final chapter of Chak’s book addresses India’s growing anti-China alliance with the U.S. and the danger of a war with China breaking out.
If US is stupid enough go to war with China, whether India existed or not, it doesn't matter.
A June 2020 border clash leaving 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers dead could portend greater conflict if Modi continues to “tether India’s geopolitical horse to the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy.”
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Who initiated this encroachment in 2020. China or India? Does this author meant to say India lost more soldiers than China so India should concede to Chinese encroachment? It's not going to happen. World geopolitics is world stuff, local needs are local.
According to Chak, India was better off when it adopted a policy of strategic autonomy in which it sustained good relations with both the U.S. and China and cleverly tried to play each country off the other to maximize India’s advantage.
India didn't initiate the rivalry between US and China. That's different level of big boy's club fight. In this complex modern supply chain economy every body has to find one's own formula to even sustain their economy. India looked after its interests.
In a devastating move for Sino-Indian relations, Modi’s India has become part of the Quad, an anti-China alliance with Australia, the UK and Japan, while carrying out more military exercises with the U.S. in proximity to China’s border.
Sure he did. From India's POV, they always had their own independent attitude - 'Non Alignment' Movement and so on. When India became a player in supply chain, it evolved in to geopolitics which is normal. What is strange in this entire saga, West or their education can't get rid of their colonial mindset of "preaching".
These measures, combined with India’s aggressive drives into Kashmir in violation of Pakistani and Chinese claims there, have greatly increased regional tensions and the threat of nuclear conflagration since India, Pakistan and China are all nuclear-armed powers.
Any body can claim any thing one want. In this author's mind, self defense is aggression , claim is what is needed to other to obey. What type of "entitlement" is that?
On a state visit to Washington in late June, Narendra Modi was given the red-carpet treatment and feted at a gala dinner
attended by some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names.
Modi gets red carpet treatment where ever he goes. Why? He was from Western state of Gujarat famous for their small business skills. So If you see 100 Indian's in any place out side India, you will see one or more Guajarati shop(Often named 'Patel'). Initially when he was the chief minister ( 2001-2014), it is these Gujarati's ( Or Gujju's) who promoted him in recognition of his contribution to development of their state Gujarat. This contribution ( aka "Good Governance") is was sold to entire nation ( 2014 - 2024 , 3 terms is extraordinary for a common street man turned PM ) and people see it all over the nation in the forms of Roads, business growth, air ports, money in their accounts, general, general accountability and so on. Here is one video, recently sent.
Most of the silicon Valley is run by India origin guys, who got educated in state funded higher educational institutions like IIT's( As per Nehru's Post-Independent vision of "Self Reliance"). These are the people West's Big business tapped into in 1990's when they needed high-tech professionals ( Y2K , internet ) , instead of educating their own people from scratch. so they naturally like to associate with any successful person not mention the PM of their own country origin. In the Western world of firm control, 'Guilt by association' may work for some cases. But, There are enough evidence that Modi used his power to control them for the national interests irrespective of their CEO's origin.
This whole narration of 'Silicon Valley' is bad, so every body associates with him is 'Bad' is ridiculous simplistic narration.
Most of the gala guests were probably unaware of the horrific atrocities being carried out in Kashmir, as they have gone largely unreported in the U.S. media and are rarely publicized by human rights NGOs or by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which primarily spotlights human rights abuses by U.S. enemies.
What if the horrific atrocities didn't happen to the level (100,000 deaths) he talks about?
I think this some made up projected number. He is clueless of the "passions" of Indian Muslims and the control their Waqf boards. See
this post
Q: (seek10) C's mentioned that, "Islam is the miscegenation of the worst of both Judaism and Christianity." There is a strong black and white thinking in Muslims, particularly in countries where they are a minority, including current European migrants that follow Muslim canon law that divides the world into two camps, Dar-ul-Islam (abode of Islam) and Dar-ul-Harb (abode of war) at their own peril. How is this psychology sustained so strongly even in this age of technology? Is it related to rigid practice of prayers or is there more to it?
A: Don't really need much more than intensive familial and social programming. Also, there is the circumcision during pubertal imprint point.
Q: (L) Do Muslims do circumcision at like puberty or something later?
(Joe) Later. 13, yeah.
(L) 13. Anybody know for sure? Yeah?
(Joe) Yeah.
(L) All right then. I guess the experience that a guy has when he's coming of age, kind of so to speak, you can really really have an impact. I mean, it's not just infancy. I guess puberty is a time of imprint too.
If I go with Indian experience, I feel that West had shot itself in the foot when they allowed to so many Muslims. West thinks that they can control the immigrant violence. Best of luck with that. But, there is a solution. Convert the country to Muslim state and all those may reduce. Will they?
With a flush supply of U.S. weapons and no public outcry, Modi has carte blanche to do whatever he wants; a shame for Kashmiris and others living in the region who would bear the brunt of an all-out war that is slowly being provoked by the U.S.
Most probably they must be using Putin supplied AK's . Why don't he blame Putin for that? This is how ridiculous these arguments are.
In short, There is conflict between Muslims vs Hindus. These canned arguments are non sense, but widely sold in the West as it fits their world "view".
Modi's achievements are too many in motivating, accomplishing many things are nothing to do with 'Hinduism' or his RSS affiliations. I
Imagine simple scenario. Let's Assume there are 10000 people( 8000 Hindus, 1500 Muslims) , assume 5 people contested for a election. The plausible scenario is 4 Hindu's and 1 Muslim. If the religion is the criteria for the voting pattern,
which Hindu candidate people are going to Vote out of 4? People vote according their own needs.
That is nothing to do with religion. Whole 'Hindu Nationalist" is a cover to hide all BJP's economic achievements. That doesn't mean Hindus doesn't have their programs - rituals, "Cow business" that is promoted by politicians of all parties. There will be
It works for Western mind as it is extension of Colonial narration of 'Minority can't live with Majority' narration of splitting the country by priming people with so-called threat of 'Nuclear War'.
Coming back to the "Trajectory": There is a Chinese proverb called "
Divided nation strive for United, United nation strive for Division". This true for any large nation including China and Russia. How old is the current "Nation states" and their borders of any country on this planet ( leave aside Britain)? 100 to 200 years?
Imagine the consequences if India relinquish Arunachal Pradesh because China claimed, Kashmir to Pakistan because they claimed?
- Every group (or self proclaimed leader of those so-called groups - by language or some victim hood) of 1.4 Billion people , the country will divide into 50 pieces. We already seen this in USSR and Yugoslavia. Is it not how British conquered India by divide and Rule civility?
- If China is superior to India, Does it mean that India has to distribute its land whoever claim some thing? Remember What C's said
Q: (Puck) So we have a question about BRICS. Do the BRICS leaders have a genuine interest in improving the collective future for humanity?
A: Partly, but as with everything in your realm, there are mixed motives and cross purposes.
How does it fit into the Global scenario of these end times?
Obviously I didn't know of 'end times' (or when that be) 30 years back and didn't even bother to remember it. Decade back, when somebody asked me about Modi, I told him he is another politician. I was not following Indian politics until then after I came out of Indi. But, that is an indication of level of distrust of India's politicians. Well, I watched and read, tried to reconcile his and opposition's claims for 5 years before I kicked the trashcan for believing the anti-Modi propaganda for so long. That is level of distrust. But the improvements on the ground ( material improvements all over the country in every sphere, even sense of nationhood in contrast to old entitled
bureaucracy) doesn't lie. It is these economic achievements is what Anti-Modi gang wants to hide in the facade of 'Hindu Nationalistic' and 'Religious intolerance' jargon.
Who benefits if India starts distributing its land because some body claimed because of some claim or victimhood- It is the West. Neither China , nor the obedient Muslim population (canon fodder to their leaders) has any advantage.
In any case, Kashmir will
go for elections in few months and they will choose whomever they want. It won't be Pakistan for sure. It is quite likely that West won't be calling it 'democracy' as it doesn't fit their agenda.
. So all the opposition politicians struggling their own way to project as Hindu supporters as the parliamentary elections are around the corner.
