>There are 7,00,000 security personnel there, enforcing "normalcy" in Kashmir. In Iraq, in a fullfledged war, there are 1,25,000 to 1,50,000 US troops. What does normalcy in Kashmir look like?
This is why Arundhati Roy is one of the finest fiction writers. She will have us convince that the troops are there to oppress Kashmir. If she doesn't know it, the number of troops in Rajasthan and Punjab too run into several lakhs. The troops were there in Kashmir before the onset of the current insurgency, and will be there long after the insurgency ends. The reason? Anybody with a basic knowledge of India's geography and post independence history knows. >Indians, folks who want to go about their humble everyday lives, want * azaadi* from Kashmir? She should be given credit for this little bit of prescience. If the current state of affairs, brought about by the total failure of terror investigations, resulting from the sacrifice of investigative rigor at the altar of political correctness, continues. > And of course now there's Babri Masjid, the Bombay carnage, the Gujarat carnage all of this complicates things and adds fuel to the fire. Why no mention of the pogrom of the Pandits? Why should not ordinary Indian's views on the Kashmir movement be colored by the expulsion of Pandits? Remember, there has been next to no condemnation of this despicable incident from any leader of the Kashmiri movement. Best regards, Murali. On 10/14/07, Venugopalan K M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
