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India sells Dalai Lama but does not see contradiction in its stand on Kashmir
Global Village Space |
M. K. Bhadrakumar |
There is a dramatic irony that the polling in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency took place on a day when we have been celebrating the official visit by the Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh, presumably to highlight the “democracy deficit” in China’s Tibet province.
A former Foreign Secretary wrote a combative piece yesterday on the “reprehensible” Chinese policies in Tibet. He wrote,
What I find appalling is that if we are to remove the word “Tibet” from the above polemical tract and replace that explosive word with “Kashmir”, we might get a fair mirror image of the state of affairs within our own country.
“China’s policies in Tibet are reprehensible. The destruction of Tibetan patrimony during the cultural revolution was terrible. The suppression of the human rights of Tibetans, the demographic changes being wrought in Tibet through Han migration, the damage being done to the region’s fragile ecology (China’s record of environmental destruction on its own territory legitimises concerns about its activities in Tibet), the increasing militarisation of Tibet when no external threat to China’s control of that territory exists, the water projects being built on the Brahmaputra disregarding lower riparian rights – all of this has a central bearing on not just the Tibetan question but India-China relations too.”
Read more: India warns China to respect its ‘sensitivities’
What I find appalling is that if we are to remove the word “Tibet” from the above polemical tract and replace that explosive word with “Kashmir”, we might get a fair mirror image of the state of affairs within our own country. Isn’t it a cynical act that we choose to throw stones from glass houses? The problem with diplomats is that they are either oblivious or are indifferent toward the conditions of the common people they represented abroad at one time or the other – the “cattle class”.
Kashmir tragedy
China is doing a far better job in the development of Tibet in comparison with India’s track record in Kashmir or the north-eastern states.
What unfolded in Srinagar yesterday has been probably the lowest ever turnout in an election in a parliamentary constituency in the history of independent India. More importantly, even compared to the low level in the 2014 parliamentary poll, the voter turnout has dropped from 26 percent to around 7 percent this time around, in a matter of just under two years. And we ended up killing 8 civilians on top of that.
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India sells Dalai Lama but does not see contradiction in its stand on Kashmir
Global Village Space |
M. K. Bhadrakumar |
There is a dramatic irony that the polling in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency took place on a day when we have been celebrating the official visit by the Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh, presumably to highlight the “democracy deficit” in China’s Tibet province.
A former Foreign Secretary wrote a combative piece yesterday on the “reprehensible” Chinese policies in Tibet. He wrote,
What I find appalling is that if we are to remove the word “Tibet” from the above polemical tract and replace that explosive word with “Kashmir”, we might get a fair mirror image of the state of affairs within our own country.
“China’s policies in Tibet are reprehensible. The destruction of Tibetan patrimony during the cultural revolution was terrible. The suppression of the human rights of Tibetans, the demographic changes being wrought in Tibet through Han migration, the damage being done to the region’s fragile ecology (China’s record of environmental destruction on its own territory legitimises concerns about its activities in Tibet), the increasing militarisation of Tibet when no external threat to China’s control of that territory exists, the water projects being built on the Brahmaputra disregarding lower riparian rights – all of this has a central bearing on not just the Tibetan question but India-China relations too.”
Read more: India warns China to respect its ‘sensitivities’
What I find appalling is that if we are to remove the word “Tibet” from the above polemical tract and replace that explosive word with “Kashmir”, we might get a fair mirror image of the state of affairs within our own country. Isn’t it a cynical act that we choose to throw stones from glass houses? The problem with diplomats is that they are either oblivious or are indifferent toward the conditions of the common people they represented abroad at one time or the other – the “cattle class”.
Kashmir tragedy
China is doing a far better job in the development of Tibet in comparison with India’s track record in Kashmir or the north-eastern states.
What unfolded in Srinagar yesterday has been probably the lowest ever turnout in an election in a parliamentary constituency in the history of independent India. More importantly, even compared to the low level in the 2014 parliamentary poll, the voter turnout has dropped from 26 percent to around 7 percent this time around, in a matter of just under two years. And we ended up killing 8 civilians on top of that.
Read full article:
India sells Dalai Lama but does not see contradiction in its stand on Kashmir
