[Reader-list] On KP anger

[mahmood farooqui]

Yes, Geetika, in the same way the Gujrat Muslim refugee camps often received
help only from sections that were aligned with conservative or
fundalentalist Muslim groups...like the way the underworld came to the aid
of Mumbai Muslims in the 93 blasts...

2008/8/17 Gitika Talwar <gitika.talwar at gmail.com>

> Dear Mahmood,
>
> Thank you so much for saying this. I have often wanted to scream at emails
> from Aditya et al, that stem apparently from pain but then continue to
> perpetuate the same stereotyping and insensitivity that they say they have
> been victims of. I have often wondered what to say or do that could help
> contain the pain of displacement without validating the need for propaganda.
>
>
> I visited the Pandit camps in Jammu in 2003 and I remember the sense of
> helplessness I felt as an outsider and also the strong rage and sorrow that
> many Pandit families spoke about. Despite that, I could not help but feel
> terrified when a few men we spoke to said that the Shiv Sena had been the
> only one to really care about their misery and Bal Thakerey was the only one
> who demanded that Pandit students get a 2% reservation in engg colleges,
> this was seen as a move towards healing. Though I agree that greater
> attention must be paid to the needs of internally displaced refugees, I was
> worried about who was helping fulfill these needs and what context this need
> fulfillment was buried in.
>
> Thanks for beginning this conversation and attempting to replace anger and
> propaganda with the desire to understand.
>
> ~ Gitika
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:28 AM, 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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