[Reader-list] Aijaz Ahmad on Kashmir!

[Inder Salim]

Thanks Dear Wali

reading Aijaz Ahmad is always in insight into many nauances which
normally one tends to ignore.

from the present interview few quotes:

PAKISTAN ITSELF HAS COMMUNAL VIEW ON KASHMIR PROBLEM

because they can settle if Kashmir if the valley merges with them.

and that means PAKISTAN-PUNJABI-HARD SUNNI ISLAM would superimpose
over the VERY SOFTER ISLAM IN KASHMIR.

which Ijaz feels will not resolve THE NATIONALITY QUESTION IN KASHMIR

given the fact the secession is no on the cards, and also the
elections or offering scholarships to the victims is not helping the
larger issue, which is between India and Pakistan but within Kashmir
as well.

FIRST YOU DO CULTURE AND TRADE
between Kashmir and kashmir and beyond. Culture is a priority for
Ijaz, even over trade,

I AM ALLERGIC TO TERM HUMAN RIGHTS, IT IS AMERICAN COINAGE.
but accounting fo that is essential, and not in the human rights way,
but the way in south africa.

The army which is controling the population needs to go,  AND YOU KNOW
IT INTERESTES ME TO SEE WHAT FREEDOM MEANS TO PEOPLE. not in a limited
sense, but deeper.

NEWS IS THERE TO DECORATE THE ADVERTISEMENT it is business, and why
should the true lovers of freedom go the media even, there must be
something real to communicate, some sincere way ...

and the this media is not interested in 70 PERCENT OF INDIANS FALL
BELOW POVERTY LINE . THE TO TALK OF BECOMING GREAT POWER IS FANTASY.

so, khuda hafiz to media.
PAKISTAN KNEW THAT BANGLADESH WOULD GO, BUT THEY WOULD NOT LET IT GO
WITHOUT WAR. and INDIA HAS NOT SHIFTED FROM ITS ATTOG ANG ON KASHMIR.
so sofetning of t boundries is the solution, since there is not
international boundry between kashmir of India  and kashmir of
Paskistan

I THINK HINDUTVA IS SPERADING IN BUREAUCRACY  REGADLESS OF ELECTORAL LOGIC.
sad, that  Gujaarat Happened

but justice needs to there, be it gujarat or kashmir, and since that
is not happening,

and because of historical reasons ( such as no boarder in Kashmir )
Arundhati Roy said that INDIA  NEEDS AZADI FORM KASHMIR AS MUCH
KASHMIR NEEDS AZADI FROM INDIA.
which is not far from what Aijaz said, althogh he sees it as
sensationalism but it was just another expression,

The fear: INDIA WILL BE MUCH COMMUNAL ( if kashmir goes to pakistan or
becomes independant ) is again very serious obsevation, since it is
already becoming, and
solution to kashmir question is not in sight.

time to do Culture....


with love
inder salim