[Reader-list] The Deception of the Indian Liberal Discourse on Kashmir

[A. Mani]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Sanjay Kak <kaksanjay at gmail.com> wrote:
> An interesting post from the blog Mazameen-e-Ghai`b
> http://bluekashmir.blogspot.com/
> Enjoy.
> Sanjay Kak
>
>
> The Deception of the Indian Liberal Discourse on Kashmir
>
> After two months of almost continuous clampdowns and lockdowns, 50
> systematic killings, and hundreds of incarcerations, the debate in
> India about protests in Kashmir has continued to hover between
> bleeding-heart liberal talk and state attempts at dissimulation. While
> state deception, and the Hindu right racket, is obvious, expected, and
> nothing new, the increased space for liberal discourse has given a
> false impression that there is a change in heart. The liberal
> discourse in India on the question of Kashmir is not open, fair, or
> objective, but often borders on, and oftentimes overlaps, the more
> popular, explicitly nationalist polemics.
>



In Kashmir and other parts of the country, the basic problems are due
to unbridled capitalism and neoliberalism.
Trying to hide these problems with demands for a separate state and
countermeasures does suit those in power at the centre.

But if a separate state can grant a classless secular democratic
society with a 'truly socialist division of labour', then it may be
sensible. Otherwise these separatist movements will perpetuate a cruel
joke on the people. Their agenda does seem to be very lacking and all
these may be just a game to further big business interests (who do not
really care about nationalist boundaries).


Best

A. Mani


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