The death of common sense in Kashmir

From the middle of May 2017, we are seeing girls in their school uniform throwing stones at Jammu and Kashmir state police (own cousins) and Central reserve Police Force personnel. This is the first time uniform vs. uniform can be seen. More shocking is the fact that girls are throwing stones. Why are they throwing stones? They want Azadi (freedom) from India. They shout “Go India Go back”. Let us for once we forget the fact that India is one of the five world powers, and such absurd slogans will die as naturally as Charu Mazumder’s slogans had died in the hills of Naxalbari and the narrow stingy bylanes of Calcutta. What they are asking is separation from the most unique Republic, the most heterogeneous mix of races and culture, where no one particular race has hegemonic power, unlike in Pakistan, where the Urdu-speaking Punjabi elites completely rule the other ethnic groups. They are demanding separation from that culture that has from the start of civilisation advocated equal rights for women. What the girls fail to understand is that they are fighting or getting worked up for a cause that would talibanise their society. Women and young girls would be the worst affected in an Un-Indian culture, where every dictat and fatwa from the mullah would have to be followed. The Kashmiriyat would give way to Wahhabi Islam. If the Saudi economy doesn’t crash in the next 20 years, then the Saudis would have another free playground to propagate their Wahabism. Turkey and few others would also do the same. Kashmiris would lose the multiculturalism of India to embrace a dark age that would not even allow them to express their creativity. Is the depiction of living things, plants permitted in Wahabism? Would the Kashmiri craftsmen be able to bring life to wood? The Kashmiri is second to none in subjects like Maths and Science. In that Dark Age they so want to enter, would there be more engineering and medical colleges or madrasas? Kashmir is not only the most beautiful state in India, it is the crown on the map of India.