Daya Sagar Sharma
Daya Sagar is a free-lancer scribe. He freely and critically covers social, education, economy, international relations, human rights, and subjects like J&K affairs/history of J&K. He has over 700 articles published in different newspapers / magazines ( published from Srinagar City, Jammu City and other cities of India )over the last 20 years. He is an engineer by profession with a post grraduate degree earned in 1971. Professionally, he has a place as an engineer in J&K.
Sagar is an original thinker. He is working in the cause of the social and human rights of the under privileged as a social worker for more than 25 years. He has headed for over six years social organization J&K Samaj Kalyan Kendra primarily working for the welfare of the DEAF (Hearing Handicap)/Handicapped in general.
Sagar is Advisor to International Human Rights Protection Council, Jammu(J&K). He has remained President of J&K Confederation of Voluntary, Social and Charitable Organisations.
Daya Sagar has the distinction of having promoted the idea of Social Audit through a voluntary group--Group Research and Audit on Social Programmes(GRASP INDIA).
Daya Sagar belongs to a family that has seen the times of Sheikh Mohd Abdullah /pre 1953 days,times of Bakshi Gulam Mohammed/Shams u Din/G.M.Sadiq/Sayed Mir Qasim/ Sheikh Abdullah 1975 once again. His associate families had many bureaucrats, social activists, political leaders including senior Ministers and legislators.
Articles by Daya Sagar Sharma
November 14, 2009
To day we are not to look for a solution to Kashmir Problem but we must assess the direction in which New Delhi is leading the affairs of Jammu and Kashmir. No doubt 1947 Accession of J and K with Dominion of India does have intricate relationship with the Kashmir problem as is so commonly...
November 09, 2009
DS/JK/ Return/03 Date 03/ 04-11-09
Hon´ble Shri P Chidambaram,
Home Minister of India ,
NEW DELHI. OPEN LETTER
Sub: Pooling Energies to attend J&K affairs setting aside p...
November 09, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
The upper reaches of areas of Doda, {Bhaderwa/ Kishtwar/ Ramban } Rajouri, Poonch, Udhampur, Kathua too are affected by militancy as are areas like Baramulla, Kupwara , Anantnag, The muslim population in these areas too is reasonable large. The people are poor and good n...
November 04, 2009
TO
Hon´ble Shri P Chidambaram,
Home Minister of India ,
NEW DELHI. OPEN LETTER 4 Nov 2009 Jammu
Sub: Pooling Energies to attend J&K affairs setting aside party politics
Respected Chidambaram Jee,
I have learnt through media that you a...
October 28, 2009
DS/JK/ Return/02 Date 22-10-09
Dr. Man Mohan Singh,
Honourable Prime Minister of India,
NEW DELHI
OPEN LETTER
:::The " invaders" openly aggressed Kashmir on 22nd October 1947, let India set priority number one on...
October 24, 2009
Jammu and Kashmir affairs have become a subject free for discussion for all. The worst sufferers have been the people of Jammu and Kashmir since they have not been allowed to rest in mental peace. Even some have been forced to think about their nationality. Those who have been questioning the access...
October 14, 2009
""""Poonch/ Marwah/ Bhadarwah / Gool/ may not be producing even half the quantity of Rajmash that is sold in their name"""".
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has been so regularly expressing concern for the areas with poor road connectivity and those suffering of economic poverty...
October 18, 2009
Kashmiri leaders will keep on saying that India and Pakistan should settle the Kashmir ( J&K) affairs with due participation of Kashmiries { separatists should also be heard }. Though they keep their priority only on Kashmir Valley, they also talk of some solution for governance taking the p...
October 05, 2009
+Daya Sagar
The Jammu and Kashmir State Cabinet on 29th August approved a New Pension Scheme to be implemented from January 2010 discontinuing existing provisions of pension to the government employees recruited there after . Government of India has already done away with pension to those ap...
October 02, 2009
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) India has it´s own history of honours. CBI officers may be still earning honours on independence day or Republic day. But how far they are still earning honours in the hearts of common Indian could be a question.
No doubt still often demands are being made in...
September 19, 2009
• No doubt Sheikh Sheikh Abdullah had his own concepts and ambitions that could be read in his Quit Kashmir movement of 1946, but Sheikh Abdullah stood for accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India
• The impressions that the world is today gathering from the statements being made by the separati...
September 06, 2009
J&K Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has added a new day to the festivity of Kashmiries , 25th July the Self Rule Day. Incidentally this year it also happens to be the 10th foundation day of PDP and on this day diplomats from UK and Australia ( Australian delegation comprising first secretary of A...
September 06, 2009
J&K Chief Minister has expressed his very very serious concern for the betterment of J&K Public Sector Enterprises. But his good intentions will not yield unless a complete total exercise is done as regards the requirements of the public sector companies. So far though many exercises have been done,...
August 22, 2009
A Look Through the mist
So often some issues are aired in the guise of social or national cause. But behind the scene it could be seen that there are some localized political or commercial motives. One of such recently aired issues is construction of memorials of some Indian leaders who have ...
August 14, 2009
Why do we raise memorials ? No doubt a simple answer could be to pay homage to those who made extreme sacrifices and contributions for the Nation and let the coming generations take inspiration from them. Then why to object the projects conceived by BSP supremo ? Why has been so much of opposition...
August 11, 2009
Senior NC leader Ajay Sadotra has been quoted as having said that no decision for the site of the Central University in J&K has been taken yet and no team from MHRD has visited J&K for selection of land. J&K State Cabinet also resolved on 31st July to approach GOI for sanctioning two Central Univers...
August 01, 2009
What have you been doing as a main stream party leader Omar Jee?
NC need own some responsibility for Kashmir turmoil & fractured social matrix
Where from the people raising anti India and pro Azadi slogans flock on the roads.
Weakness of NC reflects when Omar too sees some "more draconian" a...
July 25, 2009
The miseries, backwardness, illiteracy, poverty and ill health has grown in the farflung areas. In view of larger distances and difficult terrains the MLAs are not able to regularly reach their areas to check the development requirements and also can not effectively address the problems of thos...
July 18, 2009
Common Indian in villages / rural India / tribal areas / unemployed could be, at occasions, found under the impression that RURAL roads, Rural WS, Rural Electrification, Rural telephone , Rural Housing and irrigation under programmes like Bharat Nirman Yojna as of Bharat Sarkar are the gift to hi...
July 11, 2009
The liquor industry may be worth more than Rs.25000 crores for manufacturers in India . May it be worth another Rs.25000 crores of another direct / indirect taxes for the GOI / State Governments. But the loss the alcohol consumption directly / indirectly cause to Indian economy would surely be more...
July 04, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
Tara Chand , Dy CM J&K had other day made a very poise statement ( main sirf himmat balee nahin kahoon ga ).What Tara Chand suggested was that members / families from reserved castes and tribes who have secured levels of socio economic grounds must on their own withdraw f...
July 03, 2009
A Look through the mist
Economic and educational weakness result into Social backwardness:::
Tara Chand , Dy CM J&K had other day made a very poise statement ( main sirf himmat balee nahin kahoon ga ).What Tara Chand suggested was that members / families from reserved castes and tribes who have...
June 23, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
Many people have said and written on the controversies regarding Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. Discussions have been more like a debate, for and against. Surely the controversies have done enough of damage even to the socio- communal fabric of J&K. The situation i...
June 20, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
In the circumstances that prevail in India today, those who really want reforms in a democratic country like India but do not have enough power of money and muscle at their hand for reaching the seat of power must clearly understand that they will have to work very very ha...
June 18, 2009
A Look Through the mist
15th Lok Sabha Elections have surprised all , particularly the way Congress has risen to 206 level and BJP has fallen to 116. The total joint score of Congress and BJP is around 320 .The opinion polls that were out after 13th May too placed a nearly similar sum to...
June 13, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
15th Lok Sabha Elections have surprised all , particularly the way Congress has risen to 206 level and BJP has fallen to 116. The total joint score of Congress and BJP is around 320 .The opinion polls that were out after 13th May too placed a nearly similar sum to...
June 05, 2009
A Look Throgh The Mist
Omar Abdullah J&K Chief Minister has suggested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to call a meeting to review implementation of recommendations of four Working Groups on Jammu & Kashmir . No doubt Omar´s intentions to buy peace for Jammu and Kashmir deserve all apprecia...
May 30, 2009
There are many injured tigers in the "Company" of Man Mohan Singh
No doubt Man Mohan Singh Jee deserves all appreciations and support . Lal Krishan Advani too has congratulated Man Mohan Singh & Sonia Gandhi assuring total cooperation . The elections to 15th Lok Sabha are over. Ver...
May 24, 2009
Some more time is needed for finding out the spirit behind the 2009 Lok Sabha Election results. But it could be said that (i) the people of India appear to have voted for stability through larger party (ii) and some rejection of those practicing more of caste / region based politics too could...
May 15, 2009
Of course the Indian voter citizen too has played apparently smart this time. But How wisely the voter citizen has played would be known only in the afternoon of 16th May. Vote if wisely cast would surely increase the MPs of both Congress & BJP, otherwise the small/ regional parties would eat into ...
May 08, 2009
Inspite of support prices and subsidies the average net income of the Indian farming family has not grown. The service class ( government ) fraternity has made itself quite secure through regular wage revisions. The wage revisions have gone to the benefit of the judiciary, legislators and the bur...
April 24, 2009
A look through the mist
Snow carnage of February 2005 had exposed the backwardness and poverty of the distantly placed people of J&K. Many villages in the Doda and Udhampur parts of J&K could not be reached even till middle of March 2005 to know the damage there. Poor or totally missing road li...
April 26, 2009
A Look through the mist
Dr Farooq Abdullah had quoted ( 11-06-1999 the day Farooq inaugurated Bahu Plaza at Jammu ) an old elderly person having told him while in Kargil on 10.06.1999 , "Udar jana hai aur apni territory baapsi laana hai". As regards problem with Pakistan he said," "We do not want ...
April 26, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
The question so often being asked in April2009 is that who will form the next ( India) Government at Delhi, will it be UPA, NDA, Third Front, Forth front ? The things do not rest here only , will it be "Mayawati Front", "Pawar Front" or "Mukherjee front" is also being...
April 13, 2009
The other day during an awareness programme a student of a local college asked, " Sir, it is true that we should vote for a good candidate during elections to Lok Sabha or Vidhan Sabha , but question is how to find out the best candidate out of the lot ?" The question appeared so simple but sur...
April 11, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
The Indian Constitution was written with care and Parliamentary democracy was enshrined in it. Multi party democratic system was considered the best for independent India. Indian pre 1947 leaders sacrificed the most to secure independence from the British. To day we find m...
April 05, 2009
Electoral process needs both short term and long term medications::::
The poor / low income members of the Indian society are not sure of any physical or social security. The politicians have successfully inherited the divide and rule game plan from the British. No efforts are being spare...
March 28, 2009
Pakistan is a weak country. It is a nation with no historical roots outside India, the Bharat. But before the world Pakistan has diplomatically proved to be a stronger "Nation". The Pakistan has lived dreaming a "Paak" ( holy ) democracy over last six decades without having tasted even a bit of ...
March 28, 2009
It is no use becoming critical about the political leadership only when the elections are around. The efforts to work out corrections must carry on on a regular basis even after elections. Any how let us take some short term measures too during 2009 Lok Sabha elections.Time has arisen to correct t...
March 28, 2009
It is no use becoming critical about the political leadership only when the elections are around. The efforts to work out corrections must carry on on a regular basis even after elections. Any how let us take some short term measures too during 2009 Lok Sabha elections.Time has arisen to correct t...
March 28, 2009
A L o o K throgh the Mist
Most of the Indian people have today lost faith in the Parliamentary democracy. Rather the floor of parliament as well as the legislative assemblies have lost the grace and honour. I need not quote any specifics here. Money and liquor are frequently used to buy the vote...
March 28, 2009
A L o o k Through the Mist
Most of the Indian people have today lost faith in the Parliamentary democracy. Rather the floor of parliament as well as the legislative assemblies have lost the grace and honour. I need not quote any specifics here. A common man is often found sermoning that no sensib...
March 16, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
The affairs in J&K are not that simple this day. May it be a Jummuite or a Kashmiri both have been exploited on regional basis and are suffering. Duty now rests on the common man, the king maker in a democracy where even a mother breaking stones on road could give birt...
March 08, 2009
A Look through the mist
Section 47 of the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution lays down only the total number of Single Member Assembly Segments in the Legislative Assembly. Section -47 of J&K Constitution does not lay down region wise or District wise allocation of seats in Legislative Assembly. Th...
March 08, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
GOI can no more afford working with a policy that takes J&K affairs so casually and looks only at Kashmir Valley. Anti India elements need to be crushed in the corner . Otherwise the pro India minds could too consider that J&K may not be a dispute. No extra importa...
February 22, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
There is a fair case for constituting a new Delimitation Commission. But for doing that first requirement is to amend Section – 47 of the J&K Constitution to undo the sealing as imposed under 29 th Constitution Amendment Act of 2002 that has laid down that any new Deli...
February 13, 2009
A Look Through the MIst
Omar Abdullah has a huge list of past mistakes to be corrected, both at the level of Government and at the level of National Conference. Toughest jobs would be to stimulating the economy, & revenue collection and creating realistic jobs ( not like low paid frustra...
February 13, 2009
A Look Through the MIST
Jammu and Kashmir State is the only Province of Indian Union where the local affairs do matter significantly from international point of view as well. { It is more so in view of not so wise handling of affairs by New Delhi, particularly as regards the anti 1947 accessi...
February 04, 2009
A Look Through the Mist
In case J&K has to have her own Constitution and her own Flag then what is the harm in limiting the accession only to the subjects ( defence, foreign affairs, communication and like matters ) as were mentioned in the instrument of accession as accepted by Lord Mountbatten...
January 16, 2009
A look through the mist
When ever any reference is made to Jammu & Kashmir State of India ( Princely State of Maharaja Hari Singh ) ,this day , it is so casually taken as a simple reference to Kashmir Valley only. Where as Kashmir Valley is just one of the arms of the "J&K Triangle". In view ...
January 16, 2009
A Look through the mist
About 120 kilometers from Patnitop is Kishtwar . Another 85 kilometers from Patnitop is Bhaderwah. But it has been so unfortunate that even after 16 years since the tourist traffic to Kashmir Valley was adversely affected by the misdeeds of Pakistan sponsored agencies, nothi...
December 31, 2008
A Look through the mist
At last the elections to 11th Jammu & Kashmir State ( Inidia ) Legislative Assembly are over. With this came the end of the drama where in the political leaders were forced for over two months to play innocence, pledge for honesty, sincerity, truthfullness in future and be...
December 26, 2008
A Look through the mist
After Mumbai 11/26 attack by militants nearly every one from with in India and outside India has reacted .The reactions so far have been quite united and firm against the terrorists as well as those who directly or indirectly promote terrorists or side with terrorists. ...
December 20, 2008
A Look Through the mist
It is election time again. Old faces with new masks and promises are again out. May it be Azad or Mufti or Mir all are out to touch the sentiments of the common innocent poor people. They are making fresh promises to do away with the mal administration, illiteracy , lack ...
December 20, 2008
A Look Through the mist
Times are changing fast .Conventions are being broken or recast these days. Even the religious codes are slowly and slowly changing or are being reworked. Definitions of the community arenas too are now appearing to be under reworking . Earlier people did talk of world c...
December 10, 2008
It is also true that a democracy works only through a political system. All politicians can not be abused to be bad but these days majority of the bad leaders are politicians. A new generation political leadership has to be hence reared since we have to line with the political democratic set...
November 28, 2008
Congress had won 8 out of 11 British Indian Province elections ( including Muslim dominated NWFP). Indian Muslim League had secured only one of 90 seats in Punjab Legislature. Sheikh Abdullah made up his mind in 1937 itself to seek the political support of Indian National Congress for his movem...
November 28, 2008
J&K has bled enough
J&K affairs have become a free for all subject. But now the approach has to be practical .Goal Posts have to be narrowed down. Fields can not be kept wide open for ever. Otherwise it will be a never ending process of stripping the innocent naked, slitting the throats, chopping...
November 22, 2008
J&K has been more a victim of the personal ambitions of her political leaders. Valley centric attitude of leadership , particularly from Kashmir Valley , had become more vivid after 1945 AD. Ofcourse before 1947 it was the ambitious Sheikh Mohd Abdullah with Jawahar Lal Nehru at his back . To...
November 18, 2008
A look through the mist
Congress had won 8 out of 11 British Indian Province elections ( including Muslim dominated NWFP). Indian Muslim League had secured only one of 90 seats in Punjab Legislature. Sheikh Abdullah made up his mind in 1937 itself to seek the political support of Indian Nation...
November 09, 2008
A look through the mist
Princely State of J&K Accedes to Indian Dominion
(In the nineteenth century Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu & Kashmir extended the Geographical boundaries of India to the other side of Himalayas. Maharaja´s forces even routed the Tibetian army. Raja Gulab Singh´s General ...
November 08, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
The present day affairs of Jammu and Kashmir can not be seen in isolation to the role of National Conference .Sheikh Mohd Abdullah emerged on the J&K Scene in 1930s. He was an educated Kashmiri youth who took prime interest in the socio economic conditions of the masses ...
November 02, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
A new subject has attracted legislators, thinkers, journalists and one could say the economists as well. Why should not we ban the entry of professionally qualified personnel into the IAS or IPS Services ?
Some have argued that government spends, directly or indirectly, a ...
November 02, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
The economically weaker Muslim, Christian and the Hindu will have to look for a new generation leadership. Otherwise the Politicians would keep on misusing the democratic system .Any reservations if kept for the Muslims or Christians on the basis of religion or by including ...
November 02, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
Those who are from outside the political arena need to spare some time for the sake of the common man. The common man has right to information but he need be told what information is required by him. A check on the conventional leadership is needed to save the Jammu Re...
November 02, 2008
The way the Congress, SP, RJD, CPI ( M), NCP , TDP, BSP and the like are today coming up with slogans that divide Hindu and Muslim in the name of minorities/ rights of minorities/ reservations for minorities/ projecting enemy of muslims resting in BJP , the dangers in J&K too are growing.
WE have...
November 02, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
Many a times the information not based on the ground realities have otherwise become a written but tailored History > The generations ahead receive it believing the same as a treasure of facts, where as it may not have been. The same has been the case with the History of ...
November 02, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
United Progressive Alliance ally Mufti Mohd Sayeed has come up with nothing new in his Self Rule outline ( I will not call it a document ) released on 25 Oct 2008. This UPA ally has already been making similar statements. No doubt the PDP sermon in the name of SELF RU...
October 08, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
World over studies are being made on the affect of armed conflicts on the children and mother . In Jammu & Kashmir State the affect of Armed Conflicts on children and women need be seen in reference to the insurgency and militancy. Need has become more acute particul...
September 24, 2008
A look through the mist
The love and lust that Nehru showed for Sheikh Mohd Abdullah, the closeness that Nehru had with Mountbatten and the manner in which Nehru supported the Quit Kashmir movement that Sheikh Abdullah ´s NC launched in May/ June 1946 have been agitating some minds , th...
September 20, 2008
A LOOK THROUGH THE MIST
The economically weaker Muslim, Christian and the Hindu will have to look for a new generation leadership. Otherwise the Politicians would keep on misusing the democratic system .Any reservations if kept for the Muslims or Christians on the basis of religion or by includin...
September 13, 2008
A Look through the Mist
The Delimitations of single member assembly segments of the J&K Legislative Assembly as done so far since 1951 have been brutally unfair to the people living the backward, farflung and remotely connected areas .The worst sufferers have been the people belonging to ...
September 09, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
Enough is enough . Kashmir affairs have so far provided play ground to many individuals and groups for participation in resolving the disturbances in J&K . Many experts and groups have found it more paying for them to rub shoulders with those who negate the 1947 a...
September 09, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
Kashmir valley leaders should remain satisfied for having unduly got 10 districts out of Just 2.5 districts of Maharaja´s J&K as against only 10 Districts for Jammu region that comprises almost five districts of Maharaja´s J&K. Jammu province lost Mirpur Dis...
September 01, 2008
A Look through the mist
Areas of Doda Udhampur Kathua Rajouri very very unfairly. Their economy, development, education, tourism, horticulture , forest product industry and like has sufffered of neglect due to no rightful representation in the assembly as due under provisions of J...
August 24, 2008
A Look through the mist
29th Constitution amendment was to unduly favour Kashmir region
Demands for setting up a Delimitation Commission for relocation of number, extent and boundaries of single member Assembly Segments of J&K Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) are often raised. Ofcourse there i...
August 24, 2008
A look through the mist
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*Daya Sagar
There is a fair case for constituting a new Delimitation Commission. But for doing that first requirement is to amend Section – 47 of the J&K Constitution to undo the sealing as imposed under 29 th Constitution Amendment Act of 2002 that has laid down th...
August 22, 2008
* Even migration of Lacs of Hindu from Kashmir ( J&K India ) in 1990 failed to dismantle Hindu
Muslim ties in Jammu Region.
• Common Kashmir masses have been so far left exposed to the anti India and anti Hindu propaganda. Religious beliefs do not set so ordinarily.
• Separatists know that neither India will allow crossing LOC nor Pakistan would accept so openly.
• Muslims of Jammu Province appreciating the Hindu sentiments have pleaded for restoring the land to SASB.
• Jammu Muslims can work to expose the ill intentions of the separatists before the Kashmiri Muslims .
• Promotion of pro separatist leaders like Mufties was sure to cause frustrate even Farooq Abdullah .
• Anti India Kashmiri leaders had linked the growing Amarnath yatra with the return of the Hindu to Valley.
• The agitation of SAYSS is not merely a regional agitation but is more for keeping the honour of the Hindu secure.
August 17, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
ZULFIKAR MAJID reported on 7 th August from Srinagar ( J&K) that Hurriyat Conference (Moulvi Farooq ) would shortly decide on Jehlum Valley Road as an alternative trade route for Kashmir Valley. Mirwaiz had claimed that "AJK" Government ( PO K – Pakistan Occupied Kashm...
August 09, 2008
A LOOK THROUGH THE MIST
• Even during times of Maharaja Hari Singh all the areas of Doda/ Rajouri/ Poonch/ Banihal were kept with Jammu Province due to socio - geographical and cultural priorities.
• The factors of Geographical Compactness, Nature of terrain Facilities of Communication ar...
August 09, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
Moulvi Omar Farooq has been quoted as having said on Wednesday ( 6 August ) at Srinagar ( J&K ) (1)Communal forces in Jammu, Kathua and half of Udhampur district are talking of separation and if they want to separate on the basis of these two and a half districts Hurriyat...
August 07, 2008
A Look Throgh the Mist
The foundation of the Amarnath Jee Shrine Bhoomi Andolan was rather laid by leaders like Maulvi Farooq and Ali Shah Geelani when they raised the question of Hindu and Musalmaan so openly in the name of land to SASB and the increasing number of the Yatries. They trie...
August 07, 2008
A Look Through the Mist
The controversy that arose after Ghulam Nabi Azad Government in J&K took away the rights for the use of about 800 kanals of land at Baltal during Shri Amarnathjee Yatra period by SASB and transferred the rights and duty for making arrangements to J&K tourism Departm...
August 06, 2008
A look through the mist
The controversy that arose after Ghulam Nabi Azad Government in J&K took away the rights for the use of about 800 kanals of land at Baltal during Shri Amarnathjee Yatra period by SASB and transferred the rights and duty for making arrangements to J&K tourism Departmen...
July 26, 2008
A Look through the mist:
Some people , particularly from Jammu Region, do allege that National Conference targets the Muslim sentiments in Kashmir for political survival . Surely such inferences would have deeply hurt Sheikh Abdullah, had he been with us today. But it appears that even Dr. Farooq...
July 11, 2008
Need has arisen to work hard to even sustain the tradition of cordiality and togetherness. Amongst the people of J&K. Need has also arisen to treat J&K affairs above the group politics by all the political as well as social leaders of India.
Common man of J&K has suffered enough at the hands o...
July 11, 2008
The Shri Amarnathji Yatra ( Kashmir ) has a history. For the past many many years it has been performed with active assistance of local Kashmiri Muslims. But so unfortunately now need has arisen to work hard to even sustain the tradition of cordiality and togetherness.
The protests by the K...
July 11, 2008
(?) Question is ::::: Will the land use by the Tourism Department be different than what it was to be when the land was with the SASB ?.Surely it would not be. So one can well infer that it was not so simply an environment issue as is being projected by some earlier. Feeling local vote bank pressu...
June 29, 2008
The Shri Amarnathji Yatra ( Kashmir ) has a history. It was always performed with active assistance of local Kashmiri Muslims. But so unfortunately now need has arisen to even sustain the tradition of cordiality and togetherness. Local leadership appears working vigorously to erode the tradition...
June 29, 2008
Grand Mufti of the state, Mufti Muhammad Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad issued a fatwa (religious decree) on 25 June against the transfer of forest land to SASB. As per reports he alleged that it is a pre-planned conspiracy of New Delhi to change the demography of the state & erode Article 370 ; calling Kash...
June 27, 2008
Mr. N. N. Vohra was appointed GOI´s interlocutor on J&K by Vajpayee Government. Mr. Vohra later resigned on 25 May 2004 .But UPA Government did not accept his resignation .Then it appeared that UPA government was serious to settle the flares in J&K. Mr. Vohra has since remained associated...
June 27, 2008
The protests against (i) the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (ii) diversion of 800 kanals of land ( government / forest land without forest ) to the management of SASB for better management of the Yatra , (iii ) expected increase of pilgrims to a million in coming years and half hearted suggestions lik...
June 19, 2008
A wedge has already been hammered between the majority community of Kashmir Valley and the Hindu Migrants . A more disturbing recent development has been that a local organization of Jammu has recently resented by saying that when ever a leader like PM/ President/ Sonia visited J&K only packages...
May 31, 2008
It is so painful that even Indian National Congress whose elders have given their all energies for strengthening the unity of Indian people are today in the front line to call for some programme in the name of religious minorities , particularly focusing on the Muslims. The Parsies, Jains , sects li...
May 31, 2008
Wise people have rather now stopped reading stories released by CBI / Vigilance organizations on corrupt officers / politicians. The corruption in services and political sector has greatly helped the anti national elements / insurgents / Naxalites/ Maoists to motivate the common innocent economicall...
May 17, 2008
Mufti Mohd Sayeed has demanded that GOI and Pakistan should allow the use of Both Indian and Pakistani currencies in J&K. In other words as per Mufti currencies of India and Pakistan should be operated in the territories of the erstwhile Princely State of Maharaja Hari Singh. debate for from where t...
May 17, 2008
A Look Through the mist
The so called separatist leadership has lived comfortably over the years in Kashmir Valley. New Delhi has been directly or indirectly providing them material and social support. The main reason one could see behind this had been intentions to find some means to stand politic...
May 03, 2008
Political scenario has not changed much from what I could see in 2005. Three years have passed. Dialogue for what? Negotiations on what? Government of India has not yet clarified that what is the subject matter of talks for which any one including Hurriyat Conference other separatist elements ar...
May 03, 2008
Where are the Kashmir affairs heading to, is surely a billion dollar question today . The common man J&K feels more concerned about the affairs concerning the fracture of socio communal matrix of J&K than should they be concerned about promotion of trade, tourism and cultural relations across t...
April 19, 2008
In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi wrote to the British viceroy, Lord Irwin that he would be compelled to break the unjust Salt Laws under which the British government was controlling the production distribution of salt. Gandhi responded to government´s non response with the Dandi March and that set t...
April 14, 2008
As per a press release from the office of Prime Minister of India of 17 may 2007 Manmohan Singh reiterated his Government´s commitment to pursue effective Policies for the empowerment of Dalits, Tribals, Minorities, Other Backward Classes and women. Ofcourse he also asserted that if there ...
April 13, 2008
In India a race has been set up between castes , classes or communities to queue and lay claims gaining backward status. There appears to be a competition to assert more backwardness than others for seeking advantage of preference over others. The real malice could well be seen in the selfishnes...
April 05, 2008
J&K has its own constitution and own requirements. Application of national level minority identification to States does not stand to the principles of natural justice Some signs are appearing as regards setting up of Minority Commission in J&K. As per some source information the Social Welfare an...
March 24, 2008
Every other day Government of India had been coming up with statements expressing settlement of bitterness with Pakistan through the goods trade across the line of control. One would ask is LOC with Pakistan Occupied J&K an international border with India ? Has India accepted LOC as international ...
March 24, 2008
In my coloumn ,"Will the clean water stay in the kamandal of Mayawati ?", I had said that "May 11 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election results have set all eyes on the change that has come in the mind set of the UP electorate. …Ofcourse it has to be seen that whether the change is a simple "boil" agai...
March 07, 2008
During recent years Dr. Farooq Abdullah has remained more engaged in preparing grounds for standing to the challenges Mufti Mohd Sayeed´s J&K People´s Democratic Party could pose to National Conference in Kashmir valley. And after 2002 Indian National Congress has almost fallen flat...
February 26, 2008
Aflast the Law Minister of India said on 12 September 2007 that he was himself a Ram Bakt and above all he was a Brahmin. He begged excuse for the mistakes done by the official machinery of union government while filing an affidavit before the Hon´ble Supreme Court of India in a case regardi...
February 23, 2008
In my coloumn ,"Will the clean water stay in the kamandal of Mayawati ?", I had said that "May 11 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election results have set all eyes on the change that has come in the mind set of the UP electorate. …Ofcourse it has to be seen that whether the change is a simple "boil" agai...
February 23, 2008
Those were the days of 1947 winters. Kabailees had attacked the people and lands of , Bhimber Kotli, Deva Batala, Gilgit, Baltistan, Mirpur, Poonch aur Rajouri. It was an holocaust the people. The forces of Maharaja Hari Singh of J&K were too weak in men and materials to stand against the Kabae...
February 08, 2008
The displaced persons from area of Jammu and Kashmir as occupied by Pakistan have been the victim of neglect and technicalities. Most of the Pak Occupied area of J&K finally fell after Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession with independent Dominion of India .They have been sufferin...
February 09, 2008
Confusions in the minds of the local Kashmiries about nationalities have been no doubt created by some local Kashmiri leaders over the years. But it is also a hard fact that many other leaders and writers from India too have directly or indirectly worked through deeds for confusing the people ...
February 09, 2008
World over Human Rights day is observed on 10th December. It is day for introspection too by the Human Rights Activists. Are not we talking of rights of those who are Human ? Or we are taking of "Human Rights" of those who are not Human ? Are they Human who slit the throat and cut years of a inn...
January 29, 2008
While speaking in the Rajaya Sabha on 17-08-2006 Dr. Farooq Abdullah has questioned the Government of India on the steps being taken by it after Pakistan refused to grant permission to Kashmiri Pandits for visiting Hindu Shrines/ places of religious importance in Muzaffarabad. Dr. Man Mohan Singh ap...
February 08, 2008
In the words of Prof Balraj Madhok "Pakistan had made a mockery of the lawful accession of the Jammu & Kashmir state by Maharaja Hari Singh and asserted her claim to have a say in the future of the state". He had said in his book "Bunglings in Kashmir" about 33 years back. I may not agree with him...
February 08, 2008
Those who are today taking of manubaad and four vernas invented by manu too are playing in the hands of the enemy. They are being mis carried by the wrong concept that the enemy had created. In case Manu had divided the society only in four vernas i.e Brahmin, khashatriya, vesahya and shudra, the...
January 29, 2008
Many people were forced by circumstances to flee from the areas of Jammu & Kashmir State that were raided by the tribal raiders in October 1947. As alleged by India those raiders were aided and abetted by Pakistan government and regular Pakistan defence forces. Pakistan has always refuted the Indi...
January 29, 2008
Even after 60 years Government of India does not know the number of persons displaced from Pakistan Occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir State.
The displaced persons from area of Jammu and Kashmir as occupied by Pakistan have been the victim of neglect and technicalities. Most of the Pak Occupied a...
January 29, 2008
Mountbatten, the Governor General of India , formally accepted the Instrument Accession on 27 Oct and returned a copy of instrument under cover of a letter to Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu & Kashmir . The First contingent of Indian troops landed at Srinagar airport in the morning of 27 Oct 1947....
January 12, 2008
In the GUIDELINES for implementation of Indiian Prime Minister´s New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities it is stated that the target group of the programme consists of the eligible sections among the minorities ( viz, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (P...
January 12, 2008
Mr. K.M. Panikar says in book: Gulab Singh: Founder of Kashmir (London- Martin Hopkinson 1930) :-
"In a century barren of historical achievements in India, Gulab Singh stands out as a solitary figure of political eminence…. He is the only ruler in India´s long history who could be said to ha...
January 03, 2008
Acts that are termed as immoral are those that adversely affect the quality of life and social standards of a community and hence ultimately even the economy and security of a country.
It is a hard fact that the forced prostitution, the illegal extra marital sexual relations and the like acti...
January 03, 2008
A close look at the Instrument Accession that Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu & Kashmir signed on 26 October 1947 and as was accepted by Governor General of India , Lord Mountbatten of Burma, on behalf of Government of Indian Dominion on 27th October 1947 would reveal that very vital questions remai...
January 02, 2008
One who is seriously concerned about the welfare of the people of Indian of State of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K ) would surely ask : . Why was the Indian Congress so much for Sheikh Mohd Abdullah in 1940s where as it should have been more for timely Accession of J&K with Indian Dominion ( Bharat) or ot...
December 15, 2007
National Conference nearly shelved the issue of Greater Autonomy during the days of Indira Gandhi. National Conference had revived the issue of Greater Autonomy again through the political resolution adopted in 1994 and there after through the resolution passed unanimously by J&K Legislativ...
December 15, 2007
Problems in J&K have been referred as Kashmir Dispute by some writers and opinion makers even from with in India. Such people easily come in news . And the dispute ofcourse is surely referred as being between India and Pakistan. And any dispute between India and Pakistan involving Kashmir co...
December 04, 2007
35 Kashmiri Pundit children of Govt Migrant Higher Secondary school were taken to Kashmir valley for 10 days on 29 June 2007 to visit the lands , fields and villages of the Valley. All the children were born after 1989 migration . Some may feel proud for having conducted the visit. But surely i...
December 04, 2007
In an interview to Doordarshan on 5-04-2005 Srinagar Lt.(Retd) S. K. Sinha Governor of J&K while describing the then proposed opening of Uri Muzaffarabad road a s an event of great personal significance to him as he was among the few who witnessed its closure on 14 November 1947 had also referre...
November 29, 2007
In May 1946 Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah’s National Conference launched Quit Kashmir Movement. The call given by Sheikh Abdullah did not carry the support of leadership of Indian National Congress at the national level. But Sheikh did have the support of Jawahar Lal Nehru. Sheikh’s call had surprised t...
November 19, 2007
Mayawati the Chief Minister of the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh and President of Bahujan Samaj Party has come with a difference . Congress leadership in believes that some one from only Nehru family can ultimately hold to the reins and indirectly Man Mohan Singh has introduced Rahul Gandhi as ...
October 19, 2007
The love and lust that Nehru showed for Sheikh Abdullah, the closeness that Nehru had with Mountbatten and the manner in which Nehru supported the Quit Kashmir movement that Sheikh Abdullah ‘s NC launched in May/ June 1946 have agitated many minds. Quit Kashmir movement of Sheikh Mohd Abdullah w...
October 11, 2007
Human rights of others are violated when the tolerance levels dip low. Sh. Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then President of India, in his speech after accepting the Indira Gandhi Memorial Gold Medal ( as constituted by the Asiatic Society in 1985 as a mark of gratitude to Indira Gandhi) said on13-3-1985...
October 06, 2007
The political leaders from Jammu & Kashmir (India) have all these years preferred to keep the common man guessing. To be precise, have kept the common man in confusion. It is a hard reality that leaders belonging to Kashmiri Region of J&K have been more relevant for Government of India all these...