Yogi's Corner

            India's super-cop, KPS Gill, aptly summed up the plight of Kashmiri Pandit (KP) community in his observation that ‘The Pandits have become the targets and victims of one of the most successful, though little known, campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the world. Programs of a far lesser magnitude in other parts of the world have attracted international attention, censure and action in support of the victim communities, but this is an insidious campaign that has passed virtually unnoticed and on which the world remains silent'. Indian state and its national political parties of all hues are far more culpable for this callous indifference. Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), defines Genocide as " …...acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; ...". Article V of the Convention man...

            For its political greed, BJP abandoned its core ideology in Jammu & Kashmir and, in the bargain, revealed that it too practices same realpolitik as its political opponents do.  Riding on Modi’s popularity wave, state BJP coined slogan ‘Mission 44 + ’ that aimed at winning a majority in the assembly elections in 2014. Winning 25 seats was no mean an achievement. Unfortunately, BJP squandered this advantage by aligning with soft-separatist PDP whose voter base comprises of hardliners who also resented their party’s alliance with what they considered a “Hindu nationalist ’party. Gross inaptitude and corrupt practices of local BJP leadership made matters worse. Notwithstanding the tall claims that it had widened its base in Kashmir region, BJP is either naïve or in self-denial to think that loyal cadres are created by inducements alone. It is a known fact that in the past also many such ‘loyal cadres’, like Deen Mohd Cheetah, Abdul ...