{"id":1012,"date":"2021-04-09T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobanmagazine.com\/globaledition\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:38:38","slug":"arundhati-roy-on-kashmir-and-india-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobanmagazine.com\/globaledition\/2021\/04\/09\/arundhati-roy-on-kashmir-and-india-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arundhati Roy On Kashmir And India"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his reckless \u201cpre-emptive\u201d airstrike on\u00a0Balakot<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Pakistan<\/a>, Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi<\/a>\u00a0has inadvertently undone what previous Indian governments almost miraculously, succeeded in doing for decades. Since 1947 the Indian Government has bristled at any suggestion that the conflict in\u00a0Kashmir<\/a>\u00a0could be resolved by international arbitration, insisting that it is an \u201cinternal matter.\u201d By goading Pakistan into a counter-strike, and so making India and Pakistan the only two nuclear powers in history to have bombed each other, Modi has internationalised the Kashmir dispute. He has demonstrated to the world that Kashmir is potentially the most dangerous place on earth, the flash-point for nuclear war. Every person, country, and organisation that worries about the prospect of nuclear war has the right to intervene and do everything in its power to prevent it.<\/p>\n

On February 14 2019, a convoy of 2,500 paramilitary soldiers was attacked in\u00a0Pulwama<\/a>\u00a0(Kashmir) by\u00a0Adil Ahmad Dar<\/a>, a 20-year-old Kashmiri suicide-bomber who, it has been declared, belonged to the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad. The attack that killed at least\u00a040 men<\/a>\u00a0was yet another hideous chapter in the unfolding tragedy of Kashmir. Since 1990, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the conflict, thousands have \u201cdisappeared\u201d, tens of thousands have been tortured and hundreds of young people maimed and blinded by pellet guns. The death toll over the last twelve months has been the\u00a0highest since 2009<\/a>.\u00a0Associated Press<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports that almost 570 people have lost their lives, 260 of them militants, 160 civilians and 150 Indian armed personnel who died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n

Depending on the lens through which this conflict is viewed, the rebel combatants are called \u201cterrorists\u201d, \u201cmilitants\u201d, \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d or \u201cmujahids\u201d. Most Kashmiris call them \u2018mujahids\u2019 and when they are killed, hundreds of thousands of people\u2014whether they agree with their methods or not\u2014turn out for their funerals, to mourn for them and bid them farewell. Indeed, most of the civilians who were killed this past year, are those who put their bodies in the way of harm to allow militants cornered by soldiers to escape.<\/p>\n

In this long-drawn-out, blood-drenched saga, the Pulwama bombing is the deadliest, most gruesome attack of all. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of young men in the Kashmir Valley like Adil Ahmed Dar who have been born into war, who have seen such horror that they have become inured to fear and are willing to sacrifice their lives for freedom. Any day there could be another attack, worse, or less-worse than the Pulwama attack. Is the Government of India willing to allow the actions of these young men to control the fate of this country and the whole subcontinent? By reacting in the empty, theatrical way that he did, this is exactly what Narendra Modi has done. He has actually bestowed upon them the power to direct our future. The young Pulwama bomber could not have asked for more.<\/p>\n

Indians who valorise their own struggle for Independence from British Rule and virtually worship those who led it are for the most part strangely opaque to Kashmiris who are fighting for the same thing. The armed struggle in Kashmir against what people think of as \u201cIndian Rule\u201d is almost thirty years old. That Pakistan has (at one time officially and now mostly through non-government actors) supported the struggle with arms, men and logistics is hardly a secret. Nor is it a secret that no militant can operate in the war-zone that is Kashmir if they did not have the overt support of local people. Who in their right mind could imagine that this hellishly complicated, hellishly cruel war would be solved or even mitigated in any way by a one-off, hastily executed, theatrical \u201csurgical-strike,\u201d which turns out to have been not-so-surgical after all? A similar \u201cstrike\u201d that took place after the 2016 attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri achieved little more than inspiring a\u00a0Bollywood<\/a>\u00a0action film. The Balakot strikes in turn seem to have been inspired by the film. And now the media reports that Bollywood producers are already\u00a0lining up to copyright \u201cBalakot\u201d<\/a>\u00a0as the name of their next film project. On the whole, it has to be said, this absurd waltz looks and smells more \u201cpre-election\u201d than \u201cpre-emptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Prime Minister of this country to press its formidable Airforce into performing dangerous theatrics is deeply disrespectful. And what an irony it is, that while this irresponsible nuclear brinkmanship is being played out in our subcontinent, the mighty United States of America is in talks with the Taliban forces whom it has not managed to defeat or dislodge even after 17 years of straight-out war.<\/p>\n

The spiraling conflict in the subcontinent is certainly as deadly as it appears to be. But is it as straightforward?<\/p>\n

Kashmir is the most densely militarized zone in the world, with an estimated half a million Indian soldiers posted there. In addition to the Intelligence Bureau, the Research and Analysis Wing and the National Intelligence Agency, the uniformed forces \u00a0\u2013 the Army, the Border Security Force, the Central Reserve Police Force (and of course the Jammu and Kashmir Police) each does its own intelligence gathering. People live in terror of informers, double agents and triple agents who could be anybody from old school friends to family members. Under these circumstances, an attack on the scale of what happened in Pulwama is more than just shocking. As one pithy\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0commentator put it, (she was referring to the increasingly popular Hindu vigilante practice in North India, of tracking down and\u00a0lynching<\/a>\u00a0Muslims accused of killing cows), how is it that the BJP \u201ccan trace 3 kg of beef but cannot trace 350 kg of RDX\u201d?<\/p>\n

Who knows?<\/p>\n

After the attack, the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir called it the result of \u201can intelligence failure<\/a>\u201d. A few intrepid media portals reported the fact that the Jammu and Kashmir Police\u00a0had<\/em>\u00a0indeed\u00a0raised an urgent alert<\/a>\u00a0about a possible attack. Nobody in the media seems overly worried about why the warning was ignored, and where, in the chain of command, the breach took place.<\/p>\n

Tragic as it was, the Pulwama attack came as a perfect political opportunity for Narendra Modi to do what he does best\u2014grandstand. Many of us who had\u00a0predicted months ago<\/a>\u00a0that a\u00a0BJP<\/a>\u00a0that was losing its political footing would call down a fireball from the skies just before\u00a0elections<\/a>, watched with horror as our prediction came true. And we watched the Ruling Party adroitly parley the Pulwama tragedy into petty, political advantage.<\/p>\n

In the immediate aftermath of the Pulwama Attack, as enraged mobs attacked Kashmiris who worked and studied in mainland India, Modi kept dead quiet and reacted only after the Supreme Court said it was the Government\u2019s duty to protect them. But after the air strikes he was quick to appear on TV to take credit, sounding for all the world as though he had personally flown the planes and dropped the bombs. Immediately India\u2019s roughly four hundred 24\/7 news channels, most of them unapologetically partisan, set about amplifying this performance with their own personal \u201cinputs\u201d. Using old videos and fake facts, their screaming anchors masquerading as frontline commandos, orchestrated an orgy of crazed, triumphalist nationalism, in which they claimed the air strikes had destroyed a Jaish-e-Mohammad \u201cterror factory\u201d and killed more than three hundred \u201cterrorists\u201d. The next morning, even the most sober national newspapers followed suit with ridiculous, embarrassing headlines.\u00a0The Indian Express<\/em>\u00a0said: \u2018India Strikes Terror, Deep in Pakistan\u2019. Meanwhile\u00a0Reuters<\/em>, which sent a journalist to the site in Pakistan where the bombs had actually fallen,\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0only damage to trees and rocks and injuries sustained by one villager.\u00a0Associated Press<\/em>\u00a0reported something similar.\u00a0The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0said \u201cAnalysts and diplomats in New Delhi said the targets of the Indian airstrikes were unclear, as any terrorist groups operating along the border would have cleared out in recent days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India vowed retaliation over the Kashmir attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mainstream Indian media did not carry the\u00a0Reuters<\/em>\u00a0report. So, for the bulk of India\u2019s voting people who don\u2019t read the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, their Prime Minister\u2014with his famous 56\u201d chest\u2014had dismantled terrorism forever.<\/p>\n

For the moment at least, it looked as though Modi had completely out-maneuvered his political opponents, who were reduced to tweeting in praise of India\u2019s brave pilots. Meanwhile he and his men were out electioneering. Doubters and dissenters were terrorized by Hindutva trolls, charged with being anti-national, or just debilitated by the fear of the on-call lynch mob that seems to lurk at every street corner in North India.<\/p>\n

But things can change in a day. The sheen of false victory faded quickly after Pakistan\u00a0struck back<\/a>, shot down a fighter plane and captured a pilot<\/a>\u00a0of the Indian Air Force\u2014Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. Once again, the BJP\u2019s see-sawing electoral prospects have begun to look distinctly less rosy.<\/p>\n

Leaving aside the business of electoral politics and the question of who will win the next elections, Modi\u2019s actions are unforgiveable. He has jeopardized the lives of more than a billion people and brought the war in Kashmir to the doorsteps of ordinary Indians. The madness on television, fed to people like an IV drip morning, noon and night, asks people to lay aside their woes, their joblessness, their hunger, the closing down of their small businesses, the looming threat of eviction from their homes, their demands that there be an enquiry into the mysterious deaths of judges, as well as into what looks like the biggest, most corrupt Defense deal in the history of India, their worries that if they are Muslim, Dalit or Christian they could be attacked or killed\u2014and instead vote, in the name of national pride, for the very people that have brought about this devastation.<\/p>\n

This government has wounded India\u2019s soul so very deeply. It will take years for us to heal. For that process to even begin, we must vote to remove these dangerous, spectacle-hungry charlatans from office.<\/p>\n

We cannot afford to have a Prime Minister who, on a whim has broken the back of the economy of a country of a billion people by declaring overnight, without consulting anybody that 80 percent of a country\u2019s currency is no longer legal tender. Who in history has ever, done this? We cannot have a Prime Minister of a nuclear power who continues to shoot for a movie about himself in a National Park while a huge crisis befalls the country and then airily declares that he has left the decision of what to do next to the \u201cSena<\/em>\u201d\u2014 the Army. Which democratically elected leader in history, has ever done this?<\/p>\n

Modi has to go. The quarrelsome, divided, unstable Coalition government that might come in his place is not a problem. It is the very essence of democracy. It will be far more intelligent and far less foolhardy.<\/p>\n

There remains the matter of the captured Wing Commander. Whatever anybody\u2019s opinion of him, and whatever Pakistan\u2019s role has been in the Kashmir conflict,\u00a0Imran Khan<\/a>, the Prime Minister of Pakistan has acted with dignity and rectitude throughout this crisis. The Indian Government was right to demand that Varthaman be accorded all the rights that the Geneva Convention accords a Prisoner of War. It was right to demand that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) be given access to him while he was in Pakistan\u2019s custody. Today Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that, as a gesture of good will, the Wing Commander will be released.<\/p>\n

Perhaps India can offer the same courtesy to its political prisoners in Kashmir and the rest of the country: protection of their rights under the Geneva Convention, and access to the ICRC?<\/p>\n

The war that we are in the middle of, is not a war between India and Pakistan. It is a war that is being fought in Kashmir which expanded into the beginnings of yet another war between India and Pakistan. Kashmir is the real theatre of unspeakable violence and moral corrosion that can spin us into violence and nuclear war at any moment. To prevent that from happening, the conflict in Kashmir has to be addressed and resolved. That can only be done if Kashmiris are given a chance to freely and fearlessly tell the world what they are fighting for and what they really want.<\/p>\n

Dear World, find a way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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