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

[SJabbar]

Dear Pheeta Ram,
Your name doesn¹t jar, your rudeness does. But I guess that is why you hide
behind a pseudonym.  It allows you to say things that you would not if we
all knew who you were.
Sincerely,
Sonia Jabbar



On 24/10/10 12:42 PM, "Pheeta Ram" <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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