[Reader-list] Fwd: ARE YOU ANGRY?

Thu Jul 3 00:32:11 IST 2008

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From: kamal hak <kamalhak at yahoo.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2008 4:07 PM
Subject: *KPNetwork* ARE YOU ANGRY?
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    *ARE YOU ANGRY?*

"Are you angry?" A journalist asked me yesterday. She was doing a story on
Kashmiri Pandit reaction to Amarnath. This morning a friend calls me up from
Jammu to inform about curfew in whole of Jammu city.

After exchanging pleasantries and commenting on the recent events we snap
the line.  Suddenly, the journalist's face comes in my mind and I find her
repeating the question, "Are you angry?"

I sit on a couch and ask the same question to my own self.

Thousands of people took to streets in Kashmir and paralyzed the whole life
there for nearly a week. Watching them on the TV screens and the newspapers,
I could see them belonging to various political hues and colours. I thought
these marauders represented all shades of political opinion in Kashmir. If
some one subscribed to the fundamentalist ideology, there was some one else
representing the separatist agenda. And standing besides them shoulders with
shoulder were the people believing in mainstream politics. Reading the
national press and watching the electronic channels,      I find them
totally blind to the underlying current behind the protests in Kashmir.
Amazingly, national media's obsession with Hindu fundamentalism is starkly
visible everywhere. Nobody wants to see two fundamental factors behind the
latest uprising in Kashmir. One, the protests are reflection of Kashmiri
people being bound by a common fundamentalist ideology irrespective of their
political faith and two, the continuation of their determination to deny any
space to Hindus. Nobody in Indian media wants to understand that these
protests were not per see against the allotment of land to Shrine board. The
flare up was essentially against the intolerable reality of having a
flourishing Hindu institution in Islamic Kashmir.

Total curfew in Jammu and I see a sinister design behind that. How come a
nationalistic secular government of Jammu and Kashmir allowed the situation
in Kashmir to flare up to such an extent that the place once again came to
the center stage of world media? And how come the same government denies the
same right of expression to the people of Jammu? For me conclusions are
simple. The government covertly assisted the Muslim flare up in Kashmir and
wants to suppress the Hindu sentiment in Jammu. Am I angry?

Yes I am. But, I peep inside me and ask once again. "Angry against whom? Am
I angry against the majority community in Kashmir, who failed to protest a
harmless minority? Am I angry at them for proclaiming to be custodians of
Kashmiriat, which is not based on the traditional Kashmiri ethos of
tolerance but dictated by the constructed idealism of religious bigotry? Or
am I angry at the national polity for deliberately neglecting me for last
eighteen years only because I do not have the numbers to fill their ballot
boxes? Am I angry at the national intelligentsia for always seeing wolf in
expression of facts, which show the religious fundamentalists in their true
colours?"

"Am I angry at myself for failing to stir the national consciousness?"

I saw the outcome of very well publicized protest rally last Sunday. I have
just received a SMS informing me about another protest at 5 PM today. I know
how many people will be there.

Yes, admitting I am angry would be an understatement. There is a volcano
burning deep inside my heart and I want it to erupt. But I am constantly
suppressing it. The flowing lava will require a significant numbers to hold
it in direction and propel its pressure into a defining and decisive result.
I don't have such numbers. Neither among my country men nor is my community
prepared to provide me those.

I better not be angry.

Orzu.

Kamal Hak
*"Zuv Shum Braman Ghara Gassa Ha"*

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