these days i am reading about conflicts , conflict of this century , specifically india centric , but when you are reading about something , your mind wanders and other conflict happening today or happened in the past around the world too add to the curiosity . let me write about about india first , currently the biggest conflict is going on between india and pakistan over kashmir. it started right after india's independence from british and country's partition into two countries india and pakistan, pakistan was made in name of islam , due to some prominent muslim leaders insecurity of them being in minority community in largly hindu population. which created Pandora's box of issues like how muslims in india be part of a new country pakistan , at that time india was divided into different-2 so called principalities and their so called rulers had the responsibility to decide for the whole population,another problem was the geography , how do we connect each other to these principality, then comes the state craft of these two separate country's leaders how do they manage to merge these different-2 countries and make them india and pakistan. largely it was clear which part is going to be indian or pakistani but there were some regions who were bit dubious about joining any of the countries, prominently state of kashmir was one of them , another major region was state of kalat , now called balochistan where burns of partition are still alive and making these region and its people's life one of the worst in the whole world.
let me start from the partition again , i always believed that partition was the greatest tragedy on the people living in this geographical region imposed by british and muslim league and its leader jinnah and that too on a false premises that islam is a single entity and religion can be basis of seperate country .which got collapsed when bangladesh got seperated from pakistan as soon as 25 years from their separation. islam has various streams of thoughts and two major ones are shia and sunni sects. current pakistan's situation clearly shows that divide. subcontinent region was always very diverse ethnically, linguistically and traditionally. but there was a cultural connection so special kind of democratic arrangement could only keep the country together. indian leaders were wise enough to understand that. indian constitution makes sure that each and every diversity is respected.
india is developing country and in every aspect of human life it needs development , human rights is one of them, some critics say india being a democratic country has a horrible record of human rights. in some parts of the country specially kashmir vally, there are different stories comes out which shakes your belief in humanity and often critics focus on that part only, and when you talk about these tragic human stories people listen, critics call it exercising freedom of speech , good enough ???? no it can not be. where are the solutions ????
in this world people tend to tell their side of truth, even the biggest names in human rights business do that.
why not examine every side???
lets get back to partition again , before partition considerable amount of hindu and sikh population were living in that geographical region which is current pakistan for over thousands of year. they did not want a different country for themselves , they did not want to leave their mother land for the sake of some leaders insecurity and opportunism. but they did , tyranny of human evils where identity is a root cause of greatest of tragedies.
unfinsihed business of partition" kashmir" raises the same question again, is it other than a identiy issue where people in kashmir keep supporting the idea of separatism or is it more than that???
if it is more than that , then what is it ?? what about kashmiri pandit , do they want a separate state ??people often say we have lost faith in indian state , who is this indian state ?? is it a single entity. how separate country solve every bodies problem , Utopian state is just a dream.
humans has a tendency to blame others , be it a illiterate person or highly educated critic of government , who often takes solace in blaming government..
unless or until we solve these stupid issues of identity and strive towards reason and knowledge, we will continue to have these tragedies , and some stupid scholar would be earning fame and money by writing some heart wrenching stories of human tragedies and struggle.
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