-Arundhati, Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti speak-
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
-Plato.
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Kathmandu: Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel ‘The God of Small Things’, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.
India’s veteran novelist is also known for her love and affection for those minority Indians who have since the advent of Indian Prime Minister Modi, feeling ignored and visibly treated as second class citizens in their own country.
Arundhati at regular intervals comes out with her biting and piercing comments against the Indian regime that possesses, so far as we understand, intense hatred against the marginalized Indian Muslims whose numerical strength in India far exceeds than the strength what the real Islamic States like even Pakistan.
Arundhati speaks against the predicaments of the Indian Dalits and more so of the ignored and at times the “Muslims who are treated with cruelty residing in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and those who openly admit that they were living in an open air jail.
Talking on the current scrape of the caged Kashmiri population more so after the scrapping of the special status of Kashmir on August 05, 2019, the veteran Kashmiri leader, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, once said while talking to Karan Thapar of the WIRE that, in his own words, “that at this moment the Kashmiri people do not feel and do not want to be Indian. He even went so far as to say that they would rather be ruled by the Chinese, a point he reiterated when he was asked if he really meant this”.
Dr. Farooq Abdullah was surely in pains and so he was forced to speak the almost “absurd”.
To recall, Dr. Farooq Abdullah heads the National Conference party and is being accused as the most bulging ‘pro-India’ face in Jammu and Kashmir for the past four decades.
However, this is not of our concern.
He is close to Delhi since Jawahar Lal Nehru’s time, it is widely believed.
During the course of his interview with Karan Thapar, he said that “the Kashmiris as ‘slaves’ who were being treated like second class citizens”.
Thapar had conducted this interview with Dr. Abdullah on September 23, 2020. The interview still is making rounds after rounds in the YouTube.
Karan Thapa is a veteran Indian TV journalist.
Question thus now is a political personality of Dr. Abdullah’s stature bluntly how could say that they would prefer the Chinese rule instead of India’s?
What should then be inferred?
Thanks China has not yet made any comments on Dr. Abdullah’s rounded proclamation.
Is it that the Kashmiris in effect wish to be ruled by the Chinese as revealed by Dr. Abdulla-the senior most Kashmiri leader?
Very interestingly, Dr. Abdullah’s Kashmir and some other five North-East Indian provinces like Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Nagaland and Mizoram are located very close to the Chinese border. This must have some meaning underneath.
And needless to say, the Indian Chicken Neck too is not that far from China’s border.
This surely adds to India’s security concerns. Moreover, Manipur is burning since long.
The political health, as stated earlier, in these five North-East Indian state of late is not good which conversely or say by implication becomes advantageous to rival adjoining China automatically.
If China wished to upset India or complicate the Indian current troubles, it can do so it easily.
Voices from some fanatics claim that the required fuel for violence is being provided by neighboring China and Pakistan.
However, no such news have appeared yet in the international media which accuses China or Pakistan.
Such accusations emanating from India are not new as and when India enters into a fresh internal trouble of its own making.
In addition, such whimsical charges become a regular marvel as and when Indian elections are at hand. This trick has so far worked for the sitting government in India to win elections.
The Manipuri flames, as mentioned above, have already approached Haryana- close to New Delhi.
Back on Dr. Abdullah and Mrs. Mufti:
This very much explains the anger and torment of the senior Kashmiri leader as to what India means to the people and the denizens of Kashmir under Indian occupation?
So frustrated and enraged is yet another Indian Kashmiri leader Mehbooba Mufti.
Mrs. Mehbooba Mufti in her fresh comment made against the Center on August 02, 2023, said that “India has slipped past being about Hindutva and become a Nathuram Godse-oriented nation.
Certainly her remarks were high-pitched.
“I don’t know where we are going. I feel this is not even Hindutva, what is playing out, this is Godse’s India and it frightens me. The BJP is allowing these elements free play, people who are spreading poison. And they will not have control,” Mufti told The Indian Telegraph Online.
However, for exposing PM Modi’s continued atrocities in Kashmir, both Dr. Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti are taken by the Indian regime as more Pakistanis’ than Indian.
Now back to Arundhati Roy:
While receiving the Navmalayali Cultural Prize awarded by the Magazine itself, Arundhati said, the News Minute dated August 09, 2023, that Manipur incident (violence) was not an isolated incident and that its repercussions were evident in other regions like Haryana and elsewhere”.
Arundhati made these observations at the Kerala Sahitya Academy hall in Thrissur.
Addressing the alarming rise in cases of sexual violence, Roy expressed her distress over the normalization of rape and the appalling support some women were providing to such heinous acts”.
Elaborating further the Indian scenario, Arundhati says, “Rape has been used as a tool of violence and that we are in a situation today where women are telling men to rape women of other faiths and beliefs.
“This means we have gone psychotic and that the police are handing over women to a mob to be raped”.
Perhaps she was referring to the sorry tale of two women of Manipur wherein they were paraded naked and later left to be raped by the irate mob.
The West apparently made no statements when the two women were paraded naked in Manipur thus allowing PM Modi abundant political space to pounce upon those who do not belong to his adhered faith.
Speaking more candidly, Arundhati said, “Manipur is witnessing a kind of ethnic cleansing and the Center is complicit…the state is partisan and the security forces are split”.
Summing up the ongoing chaotic violence in the North-East region of India, Arundhati says, “the vulnerability faced by the minorities, particularly the Muslims and the growing sense of insecurity due to the atmosphere of “intolerance”.
Arundhati Roy in a simple manner expresses and has explained the true picture of her India as she has seen it over these recent days and weeks.
Back to Haryana violence:
A fresh report prepared by Kaushik Raj for the Qatar based ‘Al Jazeera’ dated August 12, 2023, referring to the August 02, 2023, demonstrations held at HANSI city of Hisar district, one speaker from Hindu far-right group Bajrang Dal –can be heard serving an ultimatum to local businesses to fire any Muslim employees working for them or face a boycott.”
Speaking on Haryana Violence, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee has said that “Every state, including those governed by BJP, is being incited with communal violence. This is being done with the elections in mind…. But the people do not really love these things. The common people, at the end of the day, want roti-kapda-makaan (food, clothing and shelter),” reports the Telegraph Online (India) dated August 03, 2023.
She accused the BJP of contributing to the disintegration and destruction of the nation, promising change under the 26-party INDIA coalition, of which Trinamul is a constituent, adds the Telegraph Online, India.
Thanks that so far no one in India has said that China and Pakistan were involved in inciting violence in Haryana.
Pakistani national Seema Hyder was, thankfully, not indicted of causing the Manipur and Haryana violence. However, Seema has overnight become Indian heroine for some understandable political reasons.
Or else India has the habit of hurling accusations on Pakistan inevitably.
Had Haryana been at the India-China border, India would surely have accused China for inciting violence in India.
However, the fact is that, say seasoned political commentators in South Asia that India shall be the main architect of its own callous disintegration/fracture/split if and when it happens!
The associated fact is also that if and when India disintegrates, it will do so with a great big-bang whose tremors shall hit the entire South Asian nations that border the vast Indian landmass.
For Nepal, the constant fear is that if the minority Muslims or for that matter the ethno-conflict victims those who are pushed to the wall, they will certainly opt for using the open international borders and sneak into Nepal and bribing some “Brahmin” Chief District Officers will receive a Nepali citizenship certificates.
This process has been going since 1990 when a political movement sponsored and fully funded by India cut the wings of sitting King Birendra.
Reports are already there that Manipur victims have entered into Nepal through the open Eastern border of Nepal that adjoins India’s most sensitive Chicken neck corridor, so reported the People’s Review weekly some two weeks ago.
That’s all.