I know many don’t understand when I keep raising this issue. Why is it so important?
It’s important to me because thousands of my countrymen have died for those lines. It’s our nations boundaries. Please respect it.
I can understand if foreigners can’t accept it but what about Indians?
Look at the cover of this book, Reintegrating India with the World Economy, by T. N. Srinivasan and Suresh D. Tendulkar.
Well done guys, give it way. I guess it’s just rocks and sand for you.
April 10, 2007 at 2:03 am
A book on ‘Reintegrating India’ actually disintegrated it.So sad
April 10, 2007 at 10:51 am
Dear Chacko
People can be quite insensitive about the issue. Once, in a Bangalore coffee day, I found a flier with the Indian map in which the crown was chopped off. When I pointed it out to the guy in-charge, he did not even say “Sorry, Sir” and offer to remove the offending fliers, but instead said “Yes, Sir; some portions are missing from the map”
April 10, 2007 at 12:06 pm
ummm y is kashmir not fully shown on face of the page… i thought our maps showed kashmir as fully ours, not from paks prospective
April 10, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Well the map in the book is the truth…plain n simple truth. The part that is not shown is the “Pak Occupied Kashmir” or as others say “Azad Kashmir”. Indian Govt has no control over that territory. So if Indian Govt has no control over that territory then why should it be shown in the map.
Lets not live in fool’s paradise. We need to know the truth. Hiding the truth would spread ignorance. What the map doesnt show is the Chinese occupied part of Ladakh, which is slowly eroding away into China, there is no International boundary over there.
Kashmir looks like this: http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/kashmir.htm
April 11, 2007 at 9:59 am
Except Hrishikesh, everyone thought like a ‘Hindu Fundamentalist’. Thought process of this blog is becoming ‘reactionary’. This blog had lost it’s ’secular ethos’. Looks like ’saffron brigade’ is taking over this blog. ‘Hindu Fanatics’ with ‘Mideaval mindset’ are ruling here..
It’s Nostalgic to see this subject discussed (which comes up again and again).. some of the phrases in quotes were used in their Telugu translations by a friend T. Srinivas (a Naxal Sympathiser who died a few years ago in an accident in Hyderabad). He was working with a Telugu Daily (Andhrajyothy).. Whenever I talked about Kashmir, He used to exactly bring up these phrases.. in addition to ’state terrorism’ etc
BTW: Though I hated his idealogy, He was always a good friend.
April 11, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Let’s ask the kashmiris what their map should look like. I hope atleast some of them are reading this blog and will react. When I first went abroad, I was appalled to see bharath matha headless but realised that the whole world looked at India differently from what we had learned in school.
April 11, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Why is it that when we stand up for what is rightly ours, it gets termed “reactionary” & given labels such as “hindu fundamentalist”?
If some one occupied your porch or veranda wouldn’t you but protest? I fail to see, how and why “hindu” gets figured in this context. Honestly its exasperating!
April 11, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Swetha,
Now your true colors show up.. You must be a ‘rabidly’ ‘communal’ ‘gujarati’ ‘fanatic’.. who must have taken part in ‘Gujarat Progrom’ or you may even be a member of the ’saffron brigade’s women’s wing.. ‘Rastriya Sevika (sic) Samiti’…
Look at any article in countercurrents site.. you’ll understand where I am acquiring my style including the liberal use of ‘(sic)’ from
Just joking..