Jammu & Kashmir, India - Introductory Reading

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[color=#000000][font=Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif]The Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir has been a perennial cause of confrontation & consternation for the country's government of the day since the time of India's independence. Complete annexation & integration of an Indian state into its fold has, since its inception, defined the national identity of a neighbor. In the ensuing din of claims & counter-claims, allegations & counter-allegations, one is faced with the persistent threat of being swayed by biases & disinformation that vested interest groups attempt to inject into the prevailing narrative to strengthen their own positions.[/font][/color]
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[color=#000000][font=Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif]Such efforts towards obfuscation & willful manipulation become that much more easier to accomplish when one enjoys an unbridled flow of [i]Wahhabi Petro-dollars[/i] & the active support & connivance of the security establishment of the aforementioned neighboring country, whose entire setup is singularly geared towards dealing grief to India [the Salafi cannon-fodder with guns play a different, albeit concurrent, role]. An important element of this effort towards social engineering involves trying to make acceptable, a revisionist interpretation of historical antecedents by stating the same, in manners suited to the occasion, at every given opportunity, with the intent of turning fiction into the 'new fact'.[/font][/color]


[color=#000000][font=Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif]It is a good idea to gain an initial understanding of the background to the issue before one were to begin tracking events unfolding in Jammu & Kashmir through the media. This would help put things in perspective & provide context to the present-day event one would read about. In doing so, one would also be less prone to be misled by attempts at obscurantism & distorted representation of facts.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif]A good primer material to help gain an understanding of the background to the issue of Jammu & Kashmir is this booklet released by the <a href="http://www.nias.res.in/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); " target="_blank">National Institute of Advanced Studies [N.I.A.S]. An academic initiative, in a matter-of-fact manner, the book is shorn of the sensationalism & melodrama that media articles today are not lacking in. Yet the content is quite easy reading & gives a good primary insight into the problem at hand. Good read.[/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif]Speaking of context & narrative tainted by prejudice, is this video clip, taken from a news broadcast from across the borders. In abidance with the definition of its national identify, unrestrained frothing through the mouth pass off as "news report" about Jammu & Kashmir. The clip, from a news broadcast sometime during 2010 was no different. As is the norm, theatrics put up by its newsreaders while reporting the 2010 summer violence in Jammu & Kashmir[/font][/color][sup]1[/sup][color=#000000][font=Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif], would've given an inferiority complex to even the most accomplished of North Korean newsreader, selected to announce the death of their "Dear Leader". In the footage that accompanied the diatribe, [/font][/color][i]ad nauseum[/i][color=#000000][font=Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif], of how security forces of "Hindu-dominated India" were brutalizing & oppressing the "Muslims of Jammu & Kashmir", who were being held back by their leash & prevented from doing what they truly desired [read, rush forward & embrace their Pakistani brethren & merging with it], was this visual from the summer riots, that somehow did not seem to support their verbal diarrhea.[/font][/color]

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disturbing video baa.....i would have responded if i was in his place...