On Thursday 11 Dec 2008 12:14:33 pm Deepak Jois wrote: > Do you mean that the establishment itself is actively engaged in > anti-India propaganda among the masses? If so, could you please point > me to some sources (preferably online) that verify this claim.
The establishement is not being actively anti-Indian as you have suggested. They are however being anti Indian by either ignorance or worse by negligence of a problem that is going to increase exponentially with time. We are at the beginning now. There is a difference between what you have suggested and what I am saying. You are speaking of commission. I am referring to omission. > > The standard cliche that you come across is that an average Pakistani > and an average Indian will have no problem getting along because both > of them share a common cultural bond, and that the situation that > exists between the two countries is due to the politicians and the > fundamentalists. Even the Indian media is very fond of promoting such > beliefs. This is the biggest load of bullshit that is going around. Even Mani Shankar Aiyer - who has been described as a Pakistan apologist has dismissed this outright. Many Pakistanis openly admit to this being untrue. It is only lack of reading of what a broad enough spectrum of Pakistanis are writing and saying that makes Indians and the media believe this fairy tale. It is wrong for the govenment to get carried away by this delusion. Pakistanis and Indians are polite to each other and get along with each other when they meet outside of India and Pakistan. (say in the West or Africa). But that says nothing about what is being taught to Pakistanis in Pakistan. Indians in general are willing to accept that Pakistanis are similar. Pakistanis are actively taught not to accept this as this dilutes the idea of Pakistan. Being "similar to Pakistanis" is not an assault on being Indian. But Pakistanis are taught that for a Pakistani to be similar to an Indian is a threat to his unique Pakiistani identity. I kid you not. Read my book. Feel free to dismiss it as trash after reading it. It's free - like air and pollution. I only find more of it coming true as time passes - simply because I believe I was not cooking things up when I wrote it. That need not be a reader's view. But one must read it first and reach one's own conclusions. It is the conclusions reached without study, or the ignoring of readily accessible information that is a problem. shiv
