Existing nations preserve a crucial rapport with their history. They derive dynamism from its lighter phases to assemble their present and reinvent their potential. They circumvent difficulties by learning from its blunders. Time for them is an unrefined unanimity where past,
present and future are centrally affected by one another.
Those acquainted with both the current situation in Kashmir and its history may recognize that, as misfortune would have it, Kashmiris have been isolated from their past. Kashmir ’s history boasts fame and fruitfulness, and thus the Kashmiris have sound reason to be proud. Not only did Kashmiris make innovative and important contributions to the arts, but for centuries they preserved their own independence and ruled over vast expanses of Asia . So pathetically despondent is Kashmir at the moment that these details appear to be the fabrications of a fantasy.
It is these very achievements, however, from which Kashmiris should extract motivation and support to carry out a systematic and continuous struggle against oppression. History is on the side of the Kashmiri people because their struggle is one against injustice. Should this universal reality need evidence, the present-day conditions of Iraq Chechnya Palestine Afghanistan
Two crucial geographical qualities are principally remarkable in this regard: Kashmir’s strategic position and its unusually delightful, almost compelling natural beauty.
ReplyDeleteIn the cases of Kashmir and Palestine, Hindu-Muslim opposition and Muslim-Jewish pressures, respectively, present further complications to the struggle for self-determination and human rights. There exist strong parallels between these two cases: 1) the existence of occupied peoples in both Kashmir and Palestine magnifies the humanitarian calamity of the conflict and 2) the wreckage and memories of multiple wars in both regions have enlarged deep-rooted negative outlooks that render sound concessions extremely difficult to take up. Though Kashmir may not be as important to Hinduism and Islam as Jerusalem is to Islam and Judaism, the interest of religion nevertheless aggravates the conflict on both sides.
You mentioned that the current conditions in Palestine offer evidence for why history is on the side of the Kashmiri people in their struggle against Indian occupation. I am curious to know your position on the peace process in the Middle East, and its parallels to the Kashmir conflict. Do you agree that the Israeli-Palestinian dispute imparts a greater challenge to settle than the Kashmir dispute?
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