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"Fratelli di Sangue"
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Shade of Swords by MJ Akbar
The spirit of
jihad entered Islam at Badr. It is a spirit that inspires among
believers a heroism beyond the bounds of reason; equally, it
inspires dread among those outside the fold of Allah. Its root
lies in the Arabic jehad, meaning exertion or striving. Its
resonance comes from the nature of this strife: jihad is the
holy war, the war of righteousness, the struggle against
tyranny.
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Kashmir
Behind The Vale by MJ Akbar
Of Human, and Inhuman, Bondage:
The poet did not quibble:
Agar firdaus bar ru-e zamin ast
Hami ast o-hami ast o-hami ast.
If there is a Paradise on earth, he said after seeing Kashmir,
it is this, it is this, it is this. One problem, however, with any
Paradise is the envy it tends to arouse. Kashmir has been coveted
by a succession of armies, at least from the time of the Aryans
Many came to conquer, but only a few were able to stay: Kashmir
absorbed those few who broke the forbidding defensive wall of the
Himalayas.
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Riot
After Riot by M J Akbar
Law and order have two enemies: the Full Truth and the Complete
Lie. When people realize the truth, they start revolutions. When
they are fed lies they begin meaningless riots. Lies are the
staple of every communal disturbance. They are spread by people
who have a stake in this stupid violence, who have something to
gain out of impoverished Hindus and Muslims fighting each other.
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RIOT
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Nehru
: The Making of India by M J Akbar
Nehrus are believed to have migrated, Noar, or Naru, in Badgam
district and the other near the small town of Tral. Another
claim says that the family came from the Rainwari area on the
outskirts of Srinagar. (A famous family, as is well known,
suddenly gets many ancestors.)
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India:
The Siege Within by M J Akbar
Traces the history of India since the Partition in 1947, and
analyzes the current political situation and India's future :
Amazon.com Synopsis
India: The Siege Within is the account of achievements of
India’s secular democracy as well as its vulnerability and
failures. I've elaborated the origins and nature of the strains
on Indian unity which have deep roots in history.
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Byline
by M J Akbar
A collection of Bylines
"Journalism
is the only profession that permits you to travel
without making you a travelling salesman. You become, in
a way, a travelling purchaser...Words are the currency
of this transaction: You buy images with words, and then
you pass them with words as well" - M.J. Akbar
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Blood Brothers by M J Akbar
(Last Published 2006)
Blood Brothers
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Prayaag
My grandfather died while I was playing on his chest, that was
my first stroke of luck. My elder aunt, dark, wise, hunched
against her corner of the courtyard, promptly declared that his
soul, seething with miracles, had passed into me.
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Posted on June 18,
2009
Indians
angered by U.S. policy in Kashmir
-By Susenjit Guha |
Now
the United States is encouraging Pakistan to move its armed
forces away from India and toward the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border, but this is more out of necessity to bolster the U.S.
war in Afghanistan than to treat India fairly. Pakistan has
moved many of its troops to its western border, but a big
contingent still remains eyeball to eyeball with Indian troops
on the Kashmir border.

If the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama wants to
know why anti-Americanism keeps brewing in different parts of
the world, it should take a hard look at the dangerous
Afghanistan-Pakistan policy it is toying with, at the expense of
India, and the inevitable fallout that might result.
What kind of talks did Undersecretary of State William Burns
have in mind when he allegedly carried the U.S. message to India
last week that dialogue with Pakistan should resume once again?
Can India trust Pakistan, especially since nothing serious has
been done to arrest the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks that
were hatched and carried out from Pakistan?
In the wake of the release by Pakistani courts of Hafiz Muhammad
Saeed, leader of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba – now
masquerading as an NGO under the name of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah –
what can India expect from Pakistan? Saeed has proudly boasted
of his organization’s covert jihad in Indian Kashmir. His
organization is suspected of numerous terror attacks in India
including the carnage in Mumbai last year, which caused the
suspension of the India-Pakistan dialogue in the first place.
Indian columnist Tavleen Singh was spot on when she queried, in
an article in the Indian Express, why no one had asked Burns
during his New Delhi visit whether his country could be
persuaded to have a “dialogue” with Pakistan if Osama bin Laden
had been similarly arrested and released by Islamabad?
Now the United States is encouraging Pakistan to move its armed
forces away from India and toward the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border, but this is more out of necessity to bolster the U.S.
war in Afghanistan than to treat India fairly. Pakistan has
moved many of its troops to its western border, but a big
contingent still remains eyeball to eyeball with Indian troops
on the Kashmir border.
The United States wants India to pull back its troops in Kashmir
to ensure that Pakistan will do the same, in order to shore up
its western sector where U.S. interests are at stake. This would
leave Kashmir in grave danger.
Veteran Indian journalist M. J.
Akbar called the U.S. advice on Kashmir “lunacy” in a column
written for the Times of India.
When Burns spelled out the U.S. message that a solution to
Kashmir should factor in “the wishes of the Kashmiri people,” he
was repeating the rhetoric of rogue elements in the Pakistani
administration and military. Burns would like to see
demilitarization in Kashmir. So would Pakistan, knowing that it
can count on terrorist elements to continue the fight if both
the Indian and the Pakistani armies back down.
As M. J. Akbar wrote in the same column, “If America wants a DMZ
(De-Militarized Zone) in India they will first have to ensure a
DTZ (De-Terrorized Zone) in Pakistan.” This is exactly what the
United States is shying away from. It doesn’t want to irk
Pakistan to the point that it will resist aiding the war effort
in Afghanistan.
It is the narrow U.S.-centric interests pursued by the U.S.
administration at the expense of India, the largest democracy in
the world, that rankles. Proposals like the one from Burns are
only shielding Pakistan, which has long carried out covert
operations to terrorize India, as part of its state policy.
With branded terrorists like Saeed walking free in Pakistan, is
there any point to a resumption of the India-Pakistan dialogue?
Who will take responsibility for stopping terrorist infiltration
into India through the mountainous terrain of Kashmir?
Britain has also been hinting that India should back off from
its Kashmir border with Pakistan, as Foreign Secretary David
Miliband mentioned Kashmir and India’s role as a major node on
the terror war hub when he visited India a few months ago.
Either the present U.S. administration has got it all wrong on
South Asia, or it is simply falling back on the age-old tack of
pushing U.S. interests even if it means treading on a few toes.
The new wave of “change” that the world was led to expect, along
with millions of Americans, when Obama took office, could end up
being too abrupt and premature. If meting out justice for acts
of terror is recalibrated to suit U.S. interests, Americans may
still believe in the mantra of “change,” but not Indians.
If the United States is unable to convince Pakistan to trust
India, and rather expects India to take suicidal steps in
leaving itself vulnerable to attack, this will pave the way for
anti-Americanism to rear its head among a large section of
Indian society once again.
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Racism in
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With robberies and assault on Indian students’ Down Under
spiraling to 1,447 in 2008-09 from 1,083 last year, it is time
for a wake up call not only for Australians, but also for
Indians.
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