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If only we were Chinese…

by · August 9, 2008

Prompted by this excerpt from Gautam Mukherjee’s Op-Ed in “The Pioneer”, “Assert India’s Hindu identity”:

If only we were Chinese, we wouldn’t have a Jammu & Kashmir problem at all. If we were Chinese, we would set about reneging on Article 370 even before the ink was dry on the document sanctioning it. The Chinese do not allow previous commitments to get in the way of present expediency, let alone their strategic interest.

…So if we were Chinese, we would not hesitate to put down the cynical and unruly politics of the Kashmir Valley, pressing it into ruthless submission. We would have no compunctions about disabusing the Valley politicians of their grandiose notions. We would engineer a massive demographic rebalancing — aided, abetted, and incentivised — all over this multi-religious and vast country. We would deliberately and swiftly change the character and dynamics of Jammu & Kashmir once and for all. There would be no Muslim-majority Kashmir any more than the Dalai Lama and his followers can hope to see a Tibetan-majority Tibet.

If we were Chinese, we would set about putting right historic wrongs. We would put all the shamefully displaced Pandits back where they belong, restoring their homes, land and dignity to them. In addition, we would extract reparations and indemnities for their trauma, suffering and humiliation from their erstwhile friends and neighbours turned tormentors and usurpers.

We would drive most, if not all, of the rabid Islamist terrorists and their vociferous supporters across the border. We would drive them into so-called ‘Azad Kashmir’ where they can savour life on the other side, much closer to their friends, compatriots and benefactors.

We would let the rest of the Islamists — appropriately reoriented to ground realities and reminded of their duties as much as their rights from time to time — participate in democratic discourse and hold high office if elected at all by the reformed electorate and the restorative magic of universal suffrage.

There are a few more things I thought of as I was reading this.

If only we were Chinese:

We would have backtracked on Simla Agreement and the UN resolution years ago.

We would have made modernisation of our armed forces a national priority.

We would have shut down the Madrasas along the India-Nepal, India-Bangaldesh borders.

We would not have called our terrorists “militants“.

Afzal Guru would have already been hanged…

and finally, we would not have made an ass of ourselves at the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

But don’t misunderstand me, I am truly thankful for our democracy.

Please feel free to expand and add your own thoughts.

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6 Responses

  1. Shanth says:
    August 9, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    But the sad truth and reality is we are Indians and that too Hindus.

    Time has come to act. we need to take thing in our hands and start doing. I read Offstumped and your blog regularly.

    We have to consolidate ourselves Shantanu.

    my maild id is shanth***@hotmail.com

    please do give me you contact.

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    Shanth, I have edited your email id simply to protect your privacy. Feel free to write to me via email. The address is jaidharma AT gmail.com

  2. vinay says:
    August 10, 2008 at 12:12 am

    I would love to see that day.

  3. Gypsy says:
    August 11, 2008 at 12:11 am

    Sir, I was old enough in 1949 to hear within the precincts of the Congress House in the fort area of Ahmedabad the talk about Kashmir. It was said that Sardar Patel had asked Nehru (he was not learned enough to be called Pandit) to resettle ALL the refugees coming from East Punjab in Kashmir Valley for two reasons: 1. The Valley was sparsely populated and the refugees could easily be resettled there, thereby easing load on the cities of North India including Delhi where the infrastructure was under pressure. 2. The demographic inequalities could resolved by bringing in Sikhs and Hindus and therefore, another partition of the State of J & K could be averted. Sardar had seen through the designs of Sheikh Abdulla and wanted Sikhs to protect docile Pandits again in the traditions of the Tenth Guru.

    It was said that Nehru had turned it down out of hand. He was afraid that Sardar may get support, which led to Article 370. I do not have documentary evidence, but may be somewhere in the archives, this discussion was minuted.

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    Thanks Gypsy. This is fascinating! Does anyone have any more information on this?

  4. Shanth says:
    August 11, 2008 at 9:04 am

    shantanu,

    Secular Agenda – book by Arun Shourie, clearly describes how Nehru using his perfidy extracted Sardar’s grudging compliance for Article 370. he had infact resigned from the cabinet. Nehru used his aide to fall at sardar’s feet begging for his non-intervention in Kashmir affairs.

    I think every Indian should read this book.

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    Thank you Shanth – Shantanu

  5. v.c. krishnan says:
    August 11, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Dear Sir,
    Tongue in cheek I would like to state that Article 370 will vanish from the Constitution of India shortly. Why?
    Today in the light of the Jammu Amarnath issue the Kashmiri separatists are encouraging the Kashmiris to cross the LOC.
    So Tit for Tat let us encourage all sorts of Indians to walk into the vacum created b the Kashmiris leaving the valley and going to Pakistan.
    Solution, Voila! Article 370 solved through more than Gandhian means.
    Seriously I think it is time to call the bluff of the separatists and the seculars. Let us all Indians walk into kashmir which is India and let us see what happens.
    Regards
    vck

  6. B Shantanu says:
    July 14, 2009 at 1:27 am

    Excerpt from China bans public mourning in Urumqi by Malcolm Moore:

    Xinjiang, dotted with oil refineries, is crucial for China’s energy supplies, making control of the province an absolute priority for Beijing.

    Abundant supplies of oil and gas lie beneath the sands of the Tarim basin and Xinjiang also forms the apex of a series of pipelines funnelling energy from Russia, Kazakhstan and the rest of Central Asia to the neon cities of Beijing and Shanghai, 3,500 miles to the east.

    The latest unrest in Urumqi came only days after the announcement that another pipeline will be constructed, designed to supply the power-hungry cities of southern China. “With the decrease in the oil reserves of Heilongjiang and Shandong, the strategic importance of Xinjiang and its untapped reserves grows every year,” said Ren Xianfang, an analyst at IHS Global Insight.

    To capitalise on the region’s wealth, China has steadily moved Han Chinese into Xinjiang, swelling their numbers from six per cent of the population in 1949 to 40 per cent today.

    Uighurs are officially banned from working in the oil industry for “security reasons” and complain that they see few economic benefits. Wang Lequan, the hardline Communist Party secretary of the province, has admitted that Beijing gets three-quarters of all the tax revenues from Xinjiang’s oil fields. He noted, however, that the region benefits from large scale central funding.

    Even in the countryside, the traditionally-agrarian Uighurs feel marginalised. A quasi-military organisation, known as the Bingtuan, controls huge tracts of farmland across the province, employing more than 2.2 million people, the vast majority of whom are Han.