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Today is 19 January 2020.

Thirty years ago over 350,000 Hindus in Kashmir were forced to leave, die or convert.

Just 30 years ago, not in medieval times. And it happened in free India with democracy, rule of law, secularism and free press. Not to forget, that it happened in a country with over 80% Hindus.

Abrogation of Article 370 was a step in the right direction. But Kashmir is still far from normalcy. For me, the litmus test of normalcy is – Do Kashmiri Hindus in exile today feel safe enough to return?

This is a powerful and moving account of the plight of the Kashmiri Hindus by Vivek Agnihotri –

 

 

CAA protests is an excellent showcase of IBCDs ..

.. and of the pseudo-seculars, pseudo-liberals, media biases and, above all, the corrupt academics. Before the CAA protests, it used to take some research to identify the hypocrisy and deceit of all these people. Now, they are out in their full glory, not just on social media, but out on the road.

There is absolutely no basis for any protests against CAA. On the contrary, this legislation should have been brought decades ago, just like the legislation on abrogation of Article 370 on Kashmir.

Why I say so is explained eloquently in this long interview of Arif Mohammad Khan.

I agree with every word he said and the summary of the judge at the end.

I will add one more thing. People say that measures like CAA increase the Hindu-Muslim divide. May be it does so. But the fact of the matter is that this divide has existed since before the Mughals. It was effectively exploited by the Britishers, and even more so, post-independence, by the Congress. How to heal this divide is a difficult question, but certainly appeasement of Muslims and institutional Hinduphobia are not part of the solution.

 

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Additional reading

Subramanian Swamy

Parth Parihar Part 1 Part 2

Ishkaran Singh Bhandari (video)