[Reader-list] On KP anger

[inder salim]

kashmiri pandits do exist somewhere in the universe, but are not the
centre of universe. this is what Dear mahmood said, at least i feel
so.

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mahmood ,
> I agree with you . While as we Kashmiri Pandit should not love India as a
> state as much , but the respect for the Indian nation should be there.
>
> I agree that along with terrorists , separatists the Indian Govt has been a
> complicit which resulted in the miseries of the Kashmiri pandits.
>
> I must admit that this mail of your has been the only understanding mail
> which I have received viz a viz our expression on this
> otherwise pseudo secular and leftist forum.

> Thanks for your understanding.
>
> Regards
>
> Pawan Durani
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:58 PM, mahmood farooqui <
> mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to understand the anger, rage, rather of the KPs. I
>> understand a fair bit of it, I understand some of the pain of the
>> displacement--second hand at least-, I understand the resentment at the
>> disrespect and the neglect shown towards them by the intellectuals and the
>> secularists, I understand something of those things.
>>
>> What I want to understand is why does everything turn, for a lot of their
>> exponents here, on the love for the Indian nation, or rather, more
>> appropriately, on the love for the Indian state. Why must the Indian state,
>> and all its weaknesses, be worshipped to sanctify Kashmiri Pandit pain. How
>> does humiliation turn into glorification for an entity that is actually
>> complicit in their brutality?
>>
>> Is there no other way to make sense of this tragedy?
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