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Understanding Minority Status of J&K Hindus
Punchline Minority Status Demand? Z. G. Muhammad Thank you the PDP-BJP combine for your soiled machinations. These have enabled people to understand your intents and gird their loins to offset your moves targeted at disempowering them into submission. First, you talked about the abrogation of the Article 370 of the Indian Constitution followed by initiating hideous moves for changing the fundamental character of the State. For decades, the Article 370 had got drowned in the discourses invented by the National Conference. The party had made people believe that it was a bridge between India and Jammu and Kashmir. So strong was the sway of the National Conference discourse that even the resistance leadership saw it as biblical truth and talking about this article they believed was subscribing to the New Delhi’s Kashmir narrative? … Read entire article »
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Indian Corporate Media and Kashmir Election- Setting An Agenda
PUNCHLINE Z.G. MUHAMMAD Psephology is not my cup of tea. So, unlike some of my friends, I have no predictions to make about the results of the ongoing Assembly elections in the state. I have no idea, if the ‘faded-green’ outsmarts the ‘scarlet-red’ or the scarlet-red beats the saffron or the saffron outmanoeuvres both the green and the red. Two phases of the five the phased elections are over. The official figures maintain that the voter turnout in these phases have been unprecedented. The assertions may be true or untrue. I am not to contest these figures. I am not bothered which party had an edge in these phases. It is the debates on the corporate television channels about the voter turnout that set me thinking. These debates continue to dominate these … Read entire article »
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