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

[A. Mani]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 1. You said "The sangh parivar has a lot to gain from the Hurriyat's behaviour". I agree on that. The "Hindutvavaadi" platform of the 'sangh parivar' get strengthened by "Hurriyat's behaviour".
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> In this does the 'sangh parivar' serve any business interests or itself gain monetarily?


> 2. You go on to say that "without suitable investments such actions cannot be induced.".
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> So are you saying, as you seem to be, that the "Hurriyat behaviour" is financed by the 'sangh parivar'? Or is there any other form of 'suitable investments' to 'induce' this  Hurriyat's behaviour"?
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> 3. You describe the Hurriyat as being "supposedly 'antinationalist' ". Supposedly???
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> Are you saying that actually the Hurriyat are "Nationalist" and all this is a game between the 'sangh parivar' and "Hurriyat" for the sake of monetary gain? That this 'Independence Movement' in Kashmir is a stage managed farce?
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Irrespective of what extremist groups in Pakistan and India may be
doing, both countries have become far more subservient to US
interests. The basic motivation for conflict is just missing.

The Hurriyat has an anti-nationalist agenda ... that is clear. But it
should also be clear to most people that they 'cannot do too much
damage' to the country.  According to reports, they get funds from
various sources (from inside the country and abroad). Their leadership
exploits the worsening problems of lower middle class and poor, but
cites 'emotional reasons' as the dominant force behind their
'movement'. The actual level of agreements that they have (to make it
a complete farce)  is not clear.  But many things point to such a
state of affairs.  'supposedly anti-nationalist' was more about the
apparent interpretation of the Hurriyat by the BJP.

The usual way a big business invests in politics is by having its
lobbyists within a party and by funding it. Generally they will pay
many parties.  A big business biased towards and funding the sangh
parivar may itself chose to fund the Hurriyat or it may as well be the
work of the sangh parivar itself.  There are examples of such
duplicity including the Ram sena case. Funding for specific purposes
is a different game in which people with smaller turnover (<20 cr) may
participate.


Best

A. Mani


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