Pahalgam Shooting Incident: The Unresolved Kashmir Issue and the Consequences of the Radical Hindutva Propaganda

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Armed assailants shot down 26 people in Pahalgam, a hill station in Jammu & Kashmir.

'Perception management' can help win elections but delivering preventive security on the ground is a very different game. Repealing Article 370, converting a state into union territories and enabling out-of-state real-estate investments have nothing to do with solving the Kashmir problem. The fact is that these changes post 2014 has only added to the trouble.

It is true, media campaigns have created the 'Kashmir is safe' perception. The reality is different. Any region which loses its legislative assembly and starts reporting to a union territory administration pushes the citizens of that state lose something critical - their political representation. The legislative powers under a union territory administration is not the same as that of a regular state legislative assembly. Taking away political representation is nothing short of taking away democratic rights from a citizen. We will never understand it until we are at the receiving end of such state-sponsored constitutional violation.

The Kashmir issue as such has multiple dimensions. There are those who want Kashmir to be integrated with Pakistan (and hence PoK). There are those who now want their old Kashmir back (the pre-Article370-repeal Kashmir). There are those who want an Azad Kashmir (they lost faith on both India and Pakistan). The state-sponsored military efforts to curtail these aspirations have consumed many civilian lives for many years. This has resulted in another segment of citizens who want to avenge the loved one's they've lost to the state-sponsored military operations. 

Converting a state to UT or providing new legislative powers can only go as far as new offices, new officials, new rules and new administrative format. This has nothing to do with schoolkids carrying pistols in their backpacks. Investing in movies where mothers are disciplining their kids against 'militancy' can only appeal to the supporters of the right wing agenda. The anger in the minds of Kashmiris has only grown as it has over the years. 

Yes, there are a few Kashmiris who are out of Kashmir for the sake of employment and they, for the sake of survival and safety from ridicule, speak openly in favor of the new administrative format. It is not their acceptance but their submissive mentality out of desperation. They cannot critique the abolition of Article-370 because, they can easily get branded as Pakistani or radical Muslim or even a terrorist.

Kashmir, on the other hand, is slowly melting into a long-term crisis situation. Let's look at the popular opinions objectively:

1. The Pakistani Terrorist Angle:

What is the evidence that the shooters involved in the Pahalgam incident are Pakistani citizens? Without proper documented evidence, it cannot be ascertained. Let's say, for the sake of an argument, it is Pakistani citizens. If Pakistani citizens have made it into India with weapons and conducted this attack, what does it confirm about the Indian border security measures? If Pakistani citizens are able to kill Indian citizens, what does that tell about the Indian tax money spent on Indian military services deployed in the region? Thousands of armed military, para-military and law enforcement officers with all the facilities and logistics and they could not prevent a small group of Pakistani terrorists within the very territory they were deployed to secure. Shouldn't the newly installed Union Territory Administration controlled by the central government take responsibility for the security failure? 

2. Anti-hindu Terrorism:

One of the victims of the Pahalgam shooting incident is Syed Hussain Shah. If the shooters were indeed targeting non-Muslims, why would they shoot down a Muslim man? The shooters can easily make out who is who and the last thing they want is one their own dead.

The real questions to be answered are:

Do we know how many guns are active in the Kashmir region, specifically Pahalgam? 

Do we know how many of those guns are still with their rightful owners? 

Have we confirmed if none of the bullets fired during the Pahalgam incident came from a licensed gun in the Pahalgam/Kashmir region? 

Why else do we have a gun register? Do we even have a working gun register? What is its primary purpose?

Without confirming this side of the story, it is impossible and criminal to assume the guns used in the Pahalgam incident are unregistered guns. Once we confirm that the guns/ammunition used in the Pahalgam incident are unregistered, we can proceed further to investigate how illegal firearms made it into Kashmir/Pahalgam?

If unregistered/illegal firearms were indeed used in the Pahalgam incident, it needs to be confirmed how those firearms made it into the Indian territory and their source (point of sale). 

For some reason, no one is discussing the Pahalgam incident in this angle. Pictures and videos of victims and their relatives are being circulated and televised news reports even flash "#WeWantRevenge". 

Muslim truck drivers and cattle traders are being lynched on weekly basis across the nation for trading cattle/beef. Mohd. Akhlaq was beaten to death for allegedly consuming beef back in 2015.The list is much longer than the list of victims in the Pahalgam shooting incident. For all those incidents of mob lynching targeting Muslims for being Muslim, nobody cared. The responses, if any, was a merely 'strict legal action must be taken' sandwiched with a carefully articulated 'hindus' sentiments should also be considered'. 

Now that an incident has consumed non-Muslims, the response is a direct #WeWantRevenge.

Remember, what has been happening since 2014 has taken the nation beyond a point of return. The consequences will have to be faced. As it turns out, varnavyavastha will remain prominent throughout the consequences. If you are at the top of varnavyavastha, you will be the priority target over those below you. Such is the nature of the support you've been extending since 2014. The assumption that times have completely changed and that a hindu rashtra is inevitable is the core of the consequential crisis yet to be faced by those who have been enabling the right wing hindutva propaganda in the nation.

Kashmir has lost much more than what we might assume or even possibly imagine. There will be consequences. Not all of them will pan out right away. The 'Now they can't do anything' perception in the minds of the hindutva supporters is the root cause for the Pahalgam incident. Those who were close enough to believe it and chose to go into Pahalgam as tourists paid the price for this perception management campaign. 

The victims of such shooting incidents are as innocent as the Muslims who are being hunted down by the organized hindutva terrorism. The hindutva propaganda, contradictory to popular opinion, is more harmful to its own supporters than the minorities it targets. This fact is not being realized by the supporters of the hindutva propaganda. The reason is obvious and understandable. The hindutva propaganda has killed more Muslims than non-Muslims. The 'I am safe and so I don't have a problem' has been initiated by the hindutva propaganda and it has resulted in many of its supporters falling for it. Non-Muslims who blindly believed this media-controlled public perception and went as tourists to Pahalgam have paid the price. The bad actors in Pahalgam were given an opportunity and they used it as best as they could. 

The opportunity being created in Kashmir is the problem. 

No, repealing Article-370 and the unconstitutional conversion of a state into two UT's did not solve the Kashmir problem or the associated safety issues. Kashmir is more unsafe than ever and Pahalgam shooting incident is an evidence for the same. It wasn't a case of an indigenous explosive device being delivered covertly into a enclosure. It is a case of armed assailants executing civilians in wide open area which is being perceived a tourist spot.

The belief in the hindutva propaganda put a right wing fundamentalist regime in-charge of the nation for over a decade and the citizens have now started paying the price for it.

The major contributing factor to such incidents is the silence we maintained every time we came across an incident of Muslims being killed for being Muslim. Instead of critiquing it and voting against it, we remained silent and when cornered, went with 'Yeah that happens, crime happens all the time, what to do'. 

Now, let's all accept that crime happens all the time and Pahalgam shooting incident is one such instance, much like how Mohd. Akhlaq was beaten to death for allegedly eating beef in 2015. 

We must also remember that the Pahalgam incident is one of the many such incidents waiting to happen across the nation as the kith and kin of victims make an effort to avenge the loved one's they lost to the instruments of the violent hindutva propaganda. Innocent people who did nothing more than actively support and vote in favor of the violent hindutva propaganda will also be paying the price. Collateral damage is unavoidable.

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TAMILNADU'S SEPARATION FROM THE UNION OF INDIA: WHEN SECESSIONIST DEBATES EVOLVE

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Tamilnadu is one of the top tax contributors. Despite contributing to the nation’s requirements, Tamilnadu has not received its fair share of tax as promised earlier. Even the funds for the education of children is not released on account of TN not implementing the NEP.

We in Tamilnadu have started asking ourselves: What is the point of persisting in this unnatural union of states called India?

The peace-loving no-comment neutral nonsense mongers might keep their efforts on promoting united India but that is just perception management executed through political campaigning and in some cases, paid IT-cell infrastructure.

The reality is that people of Tamilnadu are seriously considering their choice of dravidian parties as they are not delivering to the expectations. The dravidian parties have been in power since 1967 and this is their state as of 2025.

Looking up the consideration for national parties is nothing short of opening a dangerous can of worms.

The nation is moving towards secessionist debates. If this is ignored on the basis of ‘nobody has said that’ or ‘no media has ever covered this’, the nation will move forward to secessionist efforts beyond debates. Even making a friend out of dravidian parties will end up backfiring at that point.

Why would anyone like to stay in an union which doesn’t treat them equally with the rest of the nation’s citizens?

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WHY TAMILS ARE INHERENTLY ANTI-RAM: IMPACT OF INSIGNIFICANT CONSOLIDATION AND BRANDING OF FAITH SYSTEMS

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Tamils are aware of Tamil literature that predates religions. Tamils are also aware of the fact that many religions existed as individual brands, many of which eventually got clubbed under the hindu banner. Tamils know for a fact that they have had many worship methods that were not branded and their lifestyle involved worships which were nothing but paying respect to their ancestors.

The very idea of branding worship practices and evolving a political identity out of it is, in every sense, an outlandish thing for Tamils. therefore anything to do with Vishnu and its versions clearly falls within the scope of manmade faith systems propagated over the years.

Never mind the political parties, Tamil people themselves are fundamentally against religions. Those who worship treat worshipping as part of their lifestyle outside the scope of ‘one gets defined by the god he/she prays to and follows the shastra of’.

Tamils have many kulatheivams and while they have different names such as Ayyanar, KalleriMuni, Sudalaimaadan, when they plan for a prayer, they invite others by simply stating ‘We are planning for a prayer at our kulatheivam temple, please come’. Ayyanar worshipers do not call themselves Ayyanarists or any other name. Ayyanar is just a symbolic representation of their ancestors. No magic/mystical figure involved. All such worship practices involves animal sacrifices as well.

Therefore, just because a certain character and stories surrounding that character is famous, it doesn’t automatically have to be Tamils’ favorite. The fact is, it never will.

Anything connected with Vishnu, sun-culture, Naama and sanskrit vedas has nothing to do with Tamils in any way, shape or form.

If you have the patience and care to know specific evidence based reasons:

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WHY DELIMITATION AND THE CONSEQUENCES: THE MOVE FROM INDIA SPLITTING TO INDIA BURNING

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Delimitation deals with restructuring constituencies (be it at state level or union level) to ensure political representation for citizens remains feasible to the extent of implementing the constitution effectively.

This is being used by RSS/BJP to revise the impact of non-BJP/RSS aligned states on parliamentary decision making.

If 30 out 100 seats in parliament belongs to a state that rejects BJP/RSS, it means that about 1/3rd control on winning a parliamentary vote remains with an opposing state. Not all circumstances need a mere 51% vote for a win. For instance, any constitutional amendment, will need 2/3rd majority vote in favor of that amendment. If 1/3rd of the seats are with opposing states, then the government will have to convince the rest of the parliamentarians conclusively to make that amendment to the constitution. If 100 seats is modified to 140 seats with the 30 for opposing states remaining the same, then 110/140 comes up to 78% which clearly crosses the required 2/3rd majority (despite the opposing state voting against such constitutional amendment). It improves the probability of successfully securing a parliamentary nod for any and every constitutional amendment that the RSS/BJP disposition might want to.

The RSS/BJP administration wants to remove the term ‘secular’ and the mandatory provisions for reservation out of the constitution so a ‘hindu state’ declaration becomes feasible and constitutionally valid.

Some states where opposition parties are holding power are not voting in favor of such amendments. RSS/BJP wants to change the rules of game so it can win without having to fight the opposition.

This is the story behind the ongoing efforts towards convincing everyone on delimitation.

The reality is that no parliamentarian ever spends sufficient time in their constituency and the citizens are not going to see them even after the borders of the constituencies are modified.

This ongoing effort to reduce the power of opposition is supported by those who are against reservation and in favor of hindu rashtra.

When the nation slides into secessionist debates and subsequent consequences, these supporters of delimitation will get identified and branded. They will have a much darker future unless they escape to EU/ME. Their children and grandchildren will face the ‘because of your parents/grandparents’ backlash for decades to come.

The past decade since 2014 has shown that the repercussions of similar nature (since 1947) hasn’t taught the much needed lesson to those who need it. This only means the country is getting primed for season-2 but this time, it will not just be critique and isolation focusing on the ‘ism’ alone. The one’s who make up the ‘ism’ will face the wrath of the natives. The collateral damage will also remain active for at least a century as the right to coexist will remain the basis of the argument for such a retaliation.

Remember, nobody remains in power forever and the enablers of such stakeholder groups never remained in the same country forever.

If you see staunch right wingers flaunting their golden visas to Dubai or similar for-good-escapades to foreign lands, then you are aware of the relevant evidence. It comes down to your choice of perusing them and digesting the details. Mere denial will not confirm the safety of your future generations, especially if you are in favor of the RSS/BJP socio-political policies.

Brace for impact. It is many years out but still, brace for impact. 

We can never predict the inflection point and subsequent escalation of hostilities endangering the union. What we can be sure of is that RSS/BJP will be responsible for that.

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