Negativity of the Positive

by Koshur Mazloom

The advent of western capitalism into India has made people of India more selfish and merciless. The mad rat race of money and power has resulted in the higher levels of corruption, sleaze and kickbacks. The subjugation of the poor masses has become more widespread. Areas inhabited by people with abject poverty, low caste Hindu Dalits (Untouchables), Tribal Adivasis and other backward classes have been exploited by novo- capitalists, senseless powerful elite and arrogant oligarchs. Their resources are being robbed for economic as well as expansionist reasons, thus resulting in their disenchantment.

The real development and infrastructural upliftment of undeveloped India has never been given a serious thought by Indian Brahmin elite. India has confined its development both economical as well as infrastructural to a few urban centers and has ignored the hinterlands. This has resulted in the eruption of many violent insurgencies all across an unheard India. The Maoist movement is eating up the soul of India at a faster pace than ever before. Disillusionment among the poor Indians is felt widely in the vast expanses of India. People are asking for their denied rights and deserved share from the India shining pie. Since the ruling Brahmin class which consists of a paultry 1 % of the collective population of India will never yield to the demands of the oppressed. India is bound to get balkanized sooner or later. And with that balkanization, lots of oppressed communities of mainland India will get rid of the discrimination and subjugation at the hands of Brahman elite. Kashmir will achieve its freedom as soon as the internal strife within India intensifies.

In the present scenario balkanization of India will do the trick for us. Internal strife and public dissent among the various sections of Indian public is quite palpable right now. At present things are moving in the right direction.

Indian Media and Our Voices

The present peaceful struggle of freedom in Kashmir is proving to be a very lethal tool against India and the oppressed people of mainland India are watching us very keenly. India is losing its battle not only in Kashmir but it is losing it in her own country as well. Those oppressed people of India who were afraid of voicing their dissent against the State in the past, are getting inspired by us, thanks to the media coverage of Kashmir's strife. Though Indian media is grossly biased against us, pictures of peaceful protests, stone pelting and chants of Aazadi are being heard throughout the lengths and breadths of India.

One reason for the bias of Indian media can be attributed to this fact as well. The media moguls of India belong to the elite ruling Brahmin class. They know that giving unbiased coverage to the events unfolding every day in Indian-held Kashmir will stoke innumerable fires all across the India.

Negativity of the Positive

In the past Brahmin elite rulers could rule over an artificial country like India only because the majority of people living in India were poor, ignorant, illiterate, inaccessible and downtrodden. Due to indiscriminate consumerism and merciless capitalism, the Indian poor are becoming poorer economically with each passing day. But still having said so, one positive aspect has come to fore, and that is that communication and general awareness has spread to the areas where the Indian ruling elite had never wished it to touch. This positive is fast becoming a big negative for Indian integrity. Now poor masses of India have become aware about their rights and are increasingly demanding them and are asking for their due share of the sweet pie. Indian ruling elite is in the mode of denial but it will not be too long before the revolt reaches Indian urban centers. Then the real boom - boom will be felt all across the board. Multinationals who have invested huge sums in Indian urban centers will force Indian elite to crush the revolt as quick as possible. In the process of containment of the revolt, more atrocities and injustices will be perpetrated and more disenchantment will creep into the minds of general masses. India, being a big country, will crumble fast in the event of mass public revolt. The former USSR should serve as an example to us. It took hundreds of years for czars and Bolshiveks to build the all ‘invincible' USSR, but it took only few days to people like Yelsin, Nazarbaev and Cravchuk to dismantle it, thus enabling republics like Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikstan, Ukraine, and others to become sovereign and independent countries . Who would have wondered that these places would become sovereign countries a few decades back?

Bouts of Normalcy Have Helped the Struggle of Freedom in Kashmir

In the back drop of present struggle for freedom in Kashmir, I have made a very valid observation: The resent struggle is strengthened, supported and sustained by the masses of Kashmir overwhelmingly, and such an unambiguous and vast support to the movement had rarely been witnessed in the past for such a prolonged span of time. All this has become possible, thanks to some semblance of peace in Kashmir from 2003 to 2008. The comparative peaceful period from 2003 to 2008 in Kashmir has resulted in the advance of communication development to the Indian-held Kashmir. The introduction of mobile telephony, Internet, Satellite TV and other means of communication have bounced back on India in the present scenario. As the process of development is irreversible, India has no option available to gag all these mediums all together without enjoying the tacit support for the gag from the civilized world. People are sharing the gory pictures of the Valley with the outside word and among themselves with ease through the Internet and cellphones. Kashmiris no longer wait in front of the radios every day in the evening at 8.30 P.M to hear the broadcast of BBC Urdu to know about the happenings in Kashmir.

Future is Reflected in the Present

Now users are sharing live news with each other and with the outside world. That younger generation of Kashmir which used to be ignorant about the history of Kashmir and the origins of the Kashmir conflict are no longer ignorant. They can knock down any political analyst in discussions, if he or she should try to put forward a biased view of political history of Kashmir. These changes are irreversible changes. India cannot hold on to Kashmir for long now. All those who have been subjugated and oppressed are enlightened people who can reach out to the world. Indian occupiers by dragging on the occupation of Kashmir are axing their own feet and are facilitating the disintegration of their country at a faster pace. I hope good sense will prevail in the Indian establishment and this vexed imbroglio of Kashmir will be solved without any further bloodshed. Freedom to Kashmir will be a win – win situation for all the parties. The longer the delay, the faster the balkanization of India.

© Koshur Mazloom, 2010