Lt Gen Bhopinder Singh (Retd) Political movements for identity assertions and corrective actions are borne out of perceived denialism and inequities – the subliminal quest (because it still hasn’t taken an impactful shape or form,yet) for the frustratingly suboptimal Jammu/Dogra identity in the national imagination, is that, and sadly,so much more. Unlike the recent ‘regional’ identity successes of Telangana, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh or even Gorkhaland and Bodoland (both were bestowed with territorial administration/council) – hand on heart, where exactly does […]
Muslims who stood for amity and the Indian tricolour were silenced at gunpoint, police officers and jawans targeted, while the common (Muslim) man and woman on the street never benefited from the fruits of progress pocketed by Kashmirs political classes represented by the Houses of Abdullah and Mufti.