Peace in South Asia dost mittar # 64

well said. I tend to agree with you. South Indians are more dangerous to pakistanis than the north indians.

India’s Potential Lose-Lose-Lose Scenario ````The actual representatives of the Kashmiris, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (perhaps the most sophisticated and balanced group of leaders in South Asia), only supports attacks against occupying Indian soldiers in Kashmir (these actions are recognized as freedom struggles by Amnesty International). It greatly abhors terrorist attacks against civilians. Such attacks greatly undermine the Kashmiri freedom struggle, and are immediately denounced by the APHC (and by the Pakistan government).````````

This is the best part of the mail. Who is the author trying to fool?

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The local Kashmiris and the APHC thus consider those extremist religious leaders in Pakistan that do not follow the lead of the APHC to be a liability, not an asset. So much so, that the Kashmiris are now contemplating an option of independent Kashmir, rather than joining Pakistan, due to the actions of Pakistani extreme right wing parties. ``````

Hurriyat leaders are anything , but not fools to think and say this in public. And we all know what happens to those who make an attempt?

What it means to be me in Corporate America? The Author`s frustration is understandable. All the non Caucasians face this discrimination at one level or the other and while this article is an eloquent way of expressing the feelings , the solution to the problem is not to lament but to work through and around the system. I wish the author all the best in her endeavours.

``Pakistan doesn’t need us, we need Pakistan.``

Pakistan is you. You need yourself to redefine your future. To come out of hatred, bigotry, illiteracy, pettiness and rise high.

Rgds,

jntuece99

Timestoppers Bina,

A Great article.. Felt a lot better when I read it. Keep it up.

Thanks for the article,

Rgds,

jntuece99

An Equal Reaction hobbyty #

What you have mentioned mostly is true, maybe the wounds on a personal basis will be dormant , but one thing to be remembered is we indians should strive to restore the credibility of all democratic institutions. At no stage should the state should be biased against any segment of population. Should we allow this to happen, it will not be long before all what we have achieved so far will go in dumps.

On another note, What I feel is that our focus should be on how to avoid such instances in future. I am very ashamed not of what happened in Godhra, but what happened after that. We are at cross roads now. What happens from now will shape our destiny for eons to come. I personally will do all I can to prevent these psuedo-hindutva characters to hijack my religion, at the same time prevent the psuedo-secularists and communists to undermine my heritage.

Rgds,

Jntuece99

The Pattern of Hatred Jinnah, Nehru, Patel, Ambedhkar and scores of others are all politicians, some of them statesmen. Mahatma is at a different level. I feel he should not be really compared with the others. He is a politician, social reformer, humanist, a saintly character all rolled into one.

If you know more faults about Mahatma than anyone else, it is because he was the only one who experimented with his life in public view.

We might or might not agree with all his views, but he shall always touch many aspects of human civilization going forward.

Subcontinental Chain Reaction # fairdinkum

Good Insight. But I am afraid you have generalized a little too much about India. I agree with you that in many aspects, we are still not there. And we are still a third world country. But I guess most of the Indians take pride of the fact that, not many countries who are so diverse as we and started off from the same position are better than us.

Having said that, what happens occasionally,(the Gujarat incident et al) needs to be prevented at any cost. None of the `diversity` and `Secular` Constituions excuses would wash those inhumance occurences.

But we are moving ahead. You might have noticed that there are only some pockets in India where this happens. Many other volatile places in India remained peaceful.

If nothing else, these incidents remind us, that we have lot more ground to cover before we can be truly proud of ourselves as a nation, as a people. And I am confident that one day we can reach it.

Rgds,

Memories of December 6th Absolutely disgusting and inhumane is the violence happening in India now. We are beginning to get back from December 6th and now this....

To all Hindu Indians, do whatever you can to save your Muslim neighbours. Thats not much but thats the minimum we can do.

Another irreparable damage to our society. Absolutely disgusting.

An Agonized Indian.

The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond To Tahmed#

It is very brave of you to post such a message, Sir. At the same time, I feel ashamed that I don`t have the guts to do the same to some Indians who are as repulsive as him. Please dont stop the good work inspite of our failures. You are doing Pakistan and all of us proud.

Rgds,

jntuece99

The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond Zafar # Send Advani to Karachi fund:

What is the time frame you are talking about? If the fund is aimed at sending him abroad permenantly, then I am all for it. ;-)

Cheers,

jntuece99

The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond # Pmishra2:

I admit that I agree with many of the points you make but that doesnt take away the point that we need to and we can Introspect at the same time when we stand united against the hatred from outside.

Lets not the threat from the outside prevent us from fulfilling our obligations and promises we have made ourselves, to our minorities, to the various injustices in our society. I know that what I am saying is an ideal situation, but we should make an attempt, a sincere one.

Rgds,

Jntuece99

The Identity Crisis of a Modern Muslim # hamidm 331

Another hilarious gem from you. I am wondering whether you can ever stop excelling yourself!!

Please never stop them from coming.

Rgds,

jntuece99

p.s : No offense meant to hobbyty.

The Identity Crisis of a Modern Muslim Mcgupta, Sadna, hobbyty...

Thats an interesting discussion. macgupta, could you send me the links about the recent archeological excavations please? Thank you.

hobbyty, leaving all the attempted `appropriations` aside, I think you will agree with me if I say that whatever is being discovered in the sub continent corresponds to the cultural heritage of our land at one point of time. Whether someone tries to take a mileage out of it will be of irrelevance in the larger scheme of things because over time the truth comes out.

And I think you will also agree that the roots of hinduism, hindu culture MAY lie in those new excavations. So far we have been hearing only one side of the story ` the Indo European school of thought` . These findings make our journey into past all the more interesting.

Rgds,

jntuece99

The Passion of The Pacifist Thanks Farzana for such a beautiful article.

I am proud and ashamed at the same time.

Thanks once again,

jntuece99

The Forgotten Children of God To use a Cliche,

And miles to go and Promises to keep before we sleep....

And miles to go and Promises to keep before we sleep....

jntuece99

Whither Democracy? Jay #173, 174

It`s very disappointing that you had to write those two posts. You are not humiliating Tahmed but humiliating yourself and also other Indians.

jntuece99