[Reader-list] Geelani announced one Article of the Constitutionof Free Kashmir - its "Liquor Policy"

[TaraPrakash]

"We are with them in their struggle, and we know they are with us in our struggle. The message was loud and clear in the recently held meeting: OUR STRUGGLES ARE ONE!  And in this regard it was a historic meeting."

We have such historic meetings every month. How was the one held previously was less historic? History lives today for a month and then another historic happens. 

To ensure that there is just one voice in Kashmir you will have to destroy the other voices and SASG's gang has precisely done that. So no doubt the other voices in Kashmir are silent. The enemies of Kashmiris who live on daily wages are seling it one singular voice. You can pelt dissenters with stones but that will not change the facts.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pheeta Ram 
  To: SJabbar 
  Cc: TaraPrakash ; Sarai 
  Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 3:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Geelani announced one Article of the Constitutionof Free Kashmir - its "Liquor Policy"


  Dear Sonia


  Pheeta Ram is not such a bad name that it should grate on your ears in such a jarring manner as to seem un-real. Its a different matter that the notes of the music i like are in contrapuntal disagreement with the notes of your favorite melodies. They needn't match, they won't and they shouldn't!


  Now, something about your harangue about Revolutions: "But there are lessons to be learned in history." I agree. And once you have learnt your lessons, you are given an A+ and you automatically graduate to the next level. Hip! Hip! Hurrah! How i wish things were so simple, straightforward and clear in a 'reovlution'. Chaos, confusion and hooliganism under many names rules the roost during 'revolutions'. Many things happen that shouldn't. The 'public property' shouldn't get damaged and destroyed and yet it do. Young careers shouldn't get ruined and yet they do. People must not sleep on empty stomachs and yet they have to under curfew. People shouldn't get killed and yet they do. Ab kya karen? Aazaadi ka mol chukaana padega. 


  Bastille down>>monarchy gone>>anarchy>>dictatorship>>war>>monarchy again>>dictatorship again>>more wars>>two short-lived republics and "It took 100 years before France settled down to being a republic-- so much for the speed and efficacy of revolutions," you write. And who told you dear Sonia that 'revolutions' happen over night and end when a country "settles down to being a republic"? Who was it who said "Boy, its a long revolution!" ? The template shall run long, through endless cycles and spirals...who knows how long...
  But those who are for Revolution shall keep working for it through confusions, through chaos, through anarchy... 


  What matters is that you are clear on which side you are; other things come afterwards.


  Kashmiris need first to be clear about what they want. And let me tell you, people who can't throw a stone in the name of freedom, can't sleep empty stomach, can't bear the chaos and confusion of this onward march towards mere political freedom don't deserve it! Revolution is another country Sonia ji.


  Now, let us come to the long piece that you have taken the trouble to post again on the Sarai List. I t-read each and every line and lo and behold! it turns out to be a PP(propaganda piece)! I pity the guy who wrote it. This guy is not for the freedom of Kashmiri people, not to speak of revolution. He hasn't been able to make up his mind yet. I am pretty sure. However, the narration did one thing for me: it reminded me of India's march towards political freedom. There were so many factions, violent, non-violent, moderate, militant; so many things were going on simultaneously. So lets not believe that Gandhi marched India towards political freedom and all the people followed him in a single file. Many a bitter struggle were fought over leadership of Congress, there were times when there seemed no leader in charge, and anarchy ruled the hydra-headed freedom movement if there was (only) one. And then the happening of many things simultaneously, the pressure for which was building all along, resulted in India's political freedom. India gained its independence and yet lost its revolution which hadn't even properly begun. The idea of independence is the most potent tool in the hands of ruling class to put the idea of revolution to sleep. The people are made to believe that 'independence' and 'revolution' are coterminus and the hegemony of elites begins. It takes some time and effort before the people rise up from this amnesiac sleep in revolt. 
      
  Revolutions are inbuilt in the social fabric, its like nature: floods and storms and cyclones, their algorithms are hardwired into nature's mother board. And yet, there is something in the nature of 'electron' - the basic agent of 'revolution' - its uncertainty, seeming anarchy, which dares remould the circuits of 'revolutions' should they be boobytrapped, viruses hardcoded . So the Revolution (R) is when r is raised to the power of infinity. And infinity doesn't take my breath away.


  Blessed [pardon the vocabulary] are the Kashmiri youth whose lives have got entangled in the cross-hair of revolution. Blessed are they who are born under a star in turmoil for they shall have their options clear-cut before them. Blessed are the youth who have a stone to throw for they shall find their lives worth living and dying for. 


  If they think they deserve freedom they shall get it. I know i am with them, through chaos, through confusion, through leaderless anarchy. (BTW, anarchy is not such a bad thing. Its anarchy that keeps hopes alive.) 


  We are with them in their struggle, and we know they are with us in our struggle. The message was loud and clear in the recently held meeting: OUR STRUGGLES ARE ONE!  And in this regard it was a historic meeting.


  Kuch baaten bahut seedhi, saaf aur moti hoti hai, unke liye humain Kant, Hegel aur Marx nahin padhna padta. Its the oxy-moronic 'philosophy of the gross'. Humari aankhen isi liye bani hain aur microscope isi liye. Both have their uses. So while looking through the microscope we shouldn't forget that we have eyes too, and a mind, and to top it all, a heart that perpetually longs for freedom. 


  Yours sincerely


  PHEETA RAM