JK PANORAMA DECEMBER 2017

DECEMBER 2017 

VOL 2 ISSUE 9 DECEMBER 2017 

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In This Issue 

The Incredible America 

Editorial 

HYPOCRISY& Our Life Style 

G N Ahangar 

WHOM DO THE MAINSTREAM POLITICAL LEADERS 

REPRESENT IN KASHMIR VALLEY DAYA SAGAR 

‘SAHAFAT’Finance Scheme For Journalists 

Sajad Bazaz 

“Son Rise” 

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Freedom of Expression.....!

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Vol 2 / Issue 9 December 2017 

Business 

Politics 

Education 

Career 

Poetry 

The Incredible Amarica 


Freedom of Expression..! 

Amnesty to stone-pelters 

Hypocrisy & our life style 

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“Sahafat” Finance Scheme For Journalists 

Whither Kashmir ? 14 

National Conference: Convention & the way forward 

WHOM DO THE MAINSTREAM POLITICAL LEADERS 

REPRESENT IN KASHMIR VALLEY 

“PARIYON KI PARWAZ-II” 

Career Options 

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2017 Year End Review: Department of Space 

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December 2017

The Incredible America 

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onsidering the arrogance of U.S President Trump's, 

Washington dismayed the international community 

Cincluding its allies. A resounding majority of United 

Nation member states defied the unprecedented threat by 

the U.S., despite intimidation by Trump to eliminate financial 

aid to a member who votes against his decision. 

This decision reaffirms once again the just Palestinian 

cause which enjoys the support of the international 

community. It is a great humiliation and loud shame for the 

U.S. 

Trump's dictorial policy is simply violation of international 

laws. The fascist Israel and the U.S relationship has been a 

nexus, unparalleled in the history of world politics. This 

clearly reflects that Americans are wanting in grace, civility 

and refined culture. It is a state symbolizing nothing but a 

moral failure. 

The country once intended to be a champion of 'Liberty, 

Equality and Fraternity'. But due to certain nefarious designs 

against the Muslim world, it is being controlled by the Jewish 

lobby-the puppet masters. it is plain and simple that 

Americans are arrogant and brazenfaced. It is a pity that 

their politicians, not speak of general masses little know 

about their foreign affairs. They have instutionalised 

arrogance and as such give a deaf ear to the collective 

conscience of the international community. As a country, it 

has become its second nature to plunge into whirl-pool of 

ammoral social norms resulting in the massacre of millions 

of people on one pretext or the other. They have turned all 

social, ethical and other human values into ash. Their 

superiority is hollow, wild, and ornamental. They simply bully 

others and the irony is that nobody likes bullies except 

themselves. 

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ONN 

JK Panorama 


Mehbooba inducts brother Tassaduq, MLA Chadoora in her team 

File Photo 

ehbooba Mufti Jammu and Kashmir Indian Forest Service, holds the crucial position of 

Chief Minister on Thursday 28th being in charge of the party for south Kashmir, 

MDecember rejigged the cabinet by which is spread over four districts and is considered 

inducting brother Tassaduq Hussain Mufti in her to be a PDP stronghold. 

team. 

Tassaduq joining politics is yet another example of 

Governor N.N. Vohra administered Oath of Office how dynasty politics, like in other states of the 

and Secrecy to Legislators Javaid and Tassaduq at a country, continues to grow in Jammu and Kashmir. 

ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan lawns in winter Take the example of National Conference – founder 

capital Jammu. 

Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, his son Farooq 

Abdullah and grandson Omar Abdullah have all 

The fact that 45-year old shy-looking Tassaduq been the chief ministers of the state. 

would run away from politics was an open secret 

within the political circles of the Valley. He was, Cinematographer turned politician, 

until then, largely known for his work in Bollywood Tassaduq Mufti is younger brother of Mehbooba 

movies like Omkara and Kaminey. H o w e v e r , Mufti. He was nominated as MLC by Governor NN 

exactly a year later, on January 7, the first Vohra on recommendations of the state 

anniversary of Mufti’s death, the “reluctant” government. This was second expansion in the 

son finally stepped into his father’s shoes. For council of ministers since Mehbooba Mufti formed 

Kashmir, where hereditary politics has grown over the government with the Bharatiya Janata Party 

the years, it was another “son rise” in state politics. (BJP). PDP inducted heavyweight Syed Altaf 

A senior party leader said that Tassaduq had a Bukhari into the cabinet.Bukhari, an MLA from 

change of heart only after Mufti, a few months Amira Kadal constituency in Srinagar district, was a 

before his death, spoke to him on a couple of minister in the Mufti Sayeed government but he was 

occasions, insisting him to reconsider his future. not included in the Cabinet when Mehbooba 

Tassaduq is now the third member of the Mufti became the Chief Minister, three months after the 

family to join politics. His maternal uncle, Sartaj demise of her father.With the joining of Tassaduq 

Madni, who lost in 2014 assembly election, gained and Javaid, the number of ministers in the PDP-BJP 

prominence after Mehbooba took over as the chief coalition government would go to 25—the 

minister. He shadows Mehbooba at every important maximum permissible limit in the council of 

event and, according to sources, is now calling shots ministers.PDP has exhausted the limit of all 14 

in the party. 

ministers, including Chief Minister from its quota. 

Mufti’s nephew, Sajad Ahmad Mufti, who joined BJP has 11, including Deputy Chief Minister 

politics in 2015 after prematurely retiring from the Nirmal Singh and associate member Sajjad Lone. 

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JK Panorama Desk 

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.....! 

The government of Jammu and Kashmir 

barred its employees, the other day, from 

engaging in political discussions or 

criticising its policies on the social media. 

Invoking J&K service conduct rules, the 

government said that any violation of the directives 

empowers it to dismiss the erring employees from 

service, pre-maturely retiring them from service, 

withholding their promotion or salary increments 

and even their demotion to lower positions. 

The gag order, issued for the first time in Jammu and 

Kashmir, comes at a time when people including 

youth and government employees are seen 

increasingly participating in discussions—ranging 

from politics to governance and host of other 

issues—on social media sites like Facebook, 

Twitter and WhatsApp. 

Truth be told, most of the 'activists' on social media 

are people recently retired from government 

service. Indeed, it is quite amusing to see people 

who were high ranking government employees and 

model nationalists till yesterday become columnists 

on social and mainstream media rooting strongly 

for separatism - this, without being judgmental 

about either position and only to illustrate the utter 

hypocrisy we are generally capable of. More of this 

later. As far as serving government employees and 

their participation in social media is concerned, it 

would have been in nobody's interest to prevent 

such participation and provide a convenient handle 

to the traditional rabble-rousers had such 

participation been either decent, or informed, or 

within the limits of non-slanderous speech. 

Unfortunately, in very many cases it is none of 

these. As a matter of fact, the participants are often 

anti-social and vituperative in their speech, often 

instigating social strife. 

In this context if the employees have been cautioned 

not to engage in discussions on social media by way 

of tweets, status updates, posts or blogs which are 

Representative photo 

political in nature or on “contentious issues 

violative of applicable service conduct rules and 

have potential to create governance or law and order 

issues or are seen to propagate anything which is 

anti-social, anti-national or illegal”, there is not 

much that can be considered exceptionable in such 

an order. 

The order seems very much in line with standard 

service rules. It is another matter altogether that 

when these rules were originally drafted, social 

media was not around. We, therefore, find it 

difficult to understand the contextual validity of the 

argument as forwarded in the order. Come to think 

of it - could one of us, back in the day, have penned a 

column critical of the government of the day and 

have it published while we were working for the 

same government? This should make the context of 

the present order amply clear. 

Irrespective of the expected response of separatist 

and other forces, the same context becomes clearer 

in this news that has just made the mainstream 

media worldwide and has also become viral on 

social media: 

“Former US President Barack Obama told Britain's 

Prince Harry he was concerned social media was 

"corroding civil discourse", in what he said was his 

first interview since leaving the White House, aired 

on Wednesday. 

"One of the dangers of the internet is that people can 

have entirely different realities. They can be 

cocooned in information that reinforces their 

current biases. Things aren't as simple as they've 

been portrayed in whatever chat room you've been 

in," he added. 

“The question has to do with how do we harness this 

technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of 

voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead 

to a Balkanisation of society and allows ways of 

finding common ground." 

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JK Panorama 

AMNESTY TO STONE-PELTERS EVOKES POSITIVE RESPONSE AMONG YOUTH 

he amnesty to first-time booked stone pelters 

by withdrawing First Time Reports (FIRs) 

has evoked a positive response from the Tyouth who from several years had to present 

themselves before court after short spans of time. 

Though Mehbooba Mufti herself is not the architect 

of the verdict of amnesty this decision has been 

implicit in creating a positive change among the 

youth towards the state's first lady Chief Minister 

who remained center for opprobrium ever since she 

took command of the 'unholy' alliance. 

The Mehbooba Mufti led government's initiative to 

drop charges against an estimated 4,500 people, 

mostly youth involved in stone-pelting incidents 

based on recommendations by the Centre's 

interlocutor Dineshwar Sharma has evoked a 

positive response from different sections of society. 

The announcement has brought a sigh of relief to the 

thousands of families whose children had to face 

immense difficulties related to education, job 

opportunity and travel documents due to the FIRs 

against them. The relief is not limited to the youth 

and their families only but also to those alleged 

stone pelters who are based outside Kashmir and 

were compelled to present themselves before the 

court of law. 

One stone pelter said, “the decision to withdraw 

cases against youth has changed my perspective, I 

was falsely booked during 2010 agitation, but since 

then almost from past seven years I had to appear 

before court periodically after three months.” He 

further stated “being a businessman I have no 

dealings with court, but the factual reality is that I 

visited all the three complexes of court that were 

shifted from time to time to different vicinities in the 

past seven years.” 

Another youth pleading anonymity recounted his 

ordeal with our correspondent, he said “I had 

qualified interview for a Multi-National Company 

(MNC) and was supposed to be posted at Dubai, but 

due to the FIR against me, I was not able to obtain 

my passport which resulted in mental and 

psychological trauma, but now this announcement 

has evoked my expectations and I hope it won't be 

limited to announcement only but will have 

practical implications on ground for my better 

future.” 

Pertinently, in 2011, the then Chief Minister 

Omar Abdullah also announced an amnesty for 

nearly 1,200 young men. However, in today's case, 

he credited central government in ordering the 

withdrawal of cases. “Dineshwar Sharma & Home 

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Ministry in Delhi ordered the withdrawal of cases. 

Ms. Mufti was left to sign the file,” Omar Tweeted. 

Zaffar Akbar Bhat chairma of Salvation 

Movement also Welcoming government's decision 

Meanwhile Hurriyat-G chairman Syed Ali 

Geelani said that the “so-called general amnesty is a 

mere political stunt, drafted in Nagpur headquarters 

(of RSS) in a bid to label those pursuing freedom 

movement as stone pelters”. Geelani said the 

authorities in New Delhi and their “puppets” in the 

State were “annoyed and dejected when people 

vehemently came on roads to resent the forced 

occupation” from 2008 to 2016. He said FIRs were 

filed against thousands of youth and later a few were 

released “against hefty ransoms”. Geelani said 

thousands were arrested and re-arrested despite 

court orders. 

Demanding the revocation of 'black laws' 

like AFSPA and PSA the chairman of moderate 

faction of Hurriyat (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq 

termed the announcement as a “Cosmetic Effort,” 

Mirwaiz in a tweet said “If Government is serious & 

sincere & there is really a change of heart & 

approach then all political prisoners should be 

immediately released, their freedom restored & 

AFSPA, PSA revoked.” 

to withdraw cases against youth for their alleged 

involvement in stone pelting In a telephonic 

conversation with JK Panorama, he said “Though 

withdrawing FIR's is not something much to cheer 

about, it may bring some relief to those who fell 

victim to circumstances and most of them were 

wrongfully booked for one reason or the other. 

However, the government needs to move a step 

further by releasing all people including Mohd Adil 

and M Dawood Zargar and other 16 Innocent youths 

who were booked in lynching case of DSP M A 

Pandith. 

Munir Ahmad Khan said that they had 

started the process of withdrawing cases against 

first-time offenders who were charged between 

2010 and 2017, but he did not disclose how many 

cases are being withdrawn. 

"The cases of students and other young men will be 

reviewed. The process will take time to complete," 

Khan said. 

Last year, the region was rocked by some of the 

most widespread civilian uprisings in the two 

decades of conflict following the death of militant 

commander Burhan Wani. 

Pertinently, the killing spree and rain of 

pellets which left thousands maimed in 2016 

created the rage among youth against the Mehbooba 

Mufti led government. The 'anti-people' decision to 

forge alliance with BJP was also a reason to evolve 

Mehbooba center for opprobrium in Kashmir. 

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HYPOCRISY 

& Our Life Style 

G N Ahangar 

A hypocrite is basically a 

morally weak person. And it 

has been observed that 

those who are spiritually 

weak are never sincere. 

There is no greater delight 

for a hypocrite than to be 

conscious of his insincerity 

on self examination. The 

people of such behavior are 

treacherous and they do 

their job always through 

calculations. They lead a 

double life, pretending to be 

good and being really 

wicked all the time. 

Hypocrisy is the attitude of mind when an individual learns to 

live without conscience. With the passage of time it becomes 

his inherent nature. Hypocrites, whatever their creed, ideology 

or ethics if they possess the one, speak a different lounge contrary to 

their inner words. They are chameleons who by virtue of their natural 

instinct tailor or change their color and countenance according to the 

soil and surroundings. The smile of a deceit and the smile of love meet 

in the soul of a hypocrite. 

A hypocrite is basically a morally weak person. And it has been 

observed that those who are spiritually weak are never sincere. There is 

no greater delight for a hypocrite than to be conscious of his insincerity 

on self examination. The people of such behavior are treacherous and 

they do their job always through calculations. They lead a double life, 

pretending to be good and being really wicked all the time. A hypocrite 

does not do his doings in leisure and spare moments but, it is a whole 

time job for him. Of all cants which are canted in this canting world, the 

cant of our politicians and their deputies is tormenting. Our pseudo 

politicians and corrupt administrators govern the state affair for their 

own petty ends, having no consideration for the masses. They are not 

only immoral but also amoral in their ethics. Each one of them was 

never a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. 

On the whole our society has been responsible for raising its 

pedestal and then its structure on this very value. Our preachers, 

teachers, doctors, lawyers, judges, engineers, tradesman, craftsman, 

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security personals and others have been sucking 

blood from their victims by this very weapon. 

Every one of us is a leech. We have accepted such 

a behavior of mind without feeling guilty. 

The discovery and inventions of harmful 

additives in some food products and medicine 

have added a new chapter to our ethics. We have 

lost faith in being good and as such are always in 

search of doing something novel and new in this 

field. 

No legal proceeding or law for curbing 

such practices can yield results or discourage us 

from such ill conceived doings, unless and until 

we enliven our conscience- the seat of our God, 

that would hammer the anvil of our mind. 

The agencies otherwise responsible for enforcing 

laws for curbing this menace again belong to the 

same society and as such cannot be singled out. 

Every individual whether rich or poor, literate or 

illiterate, irrespective of cast, creed, sex and 

social status endeavours in accumulating wealth 

by fraud and plunder. The pendulum of our life 

has swung in one extreme position that is to 

plunder, to rob and to knock of everything that 

comes in way. 

It looks as we are handicapped to fate 

mysteriously in being hypocrites. My faith tells 

me that you live no more in the valley of roses, 

your roses have ripened into tumors, your saints 

are hollow, your slogans are cries in wilderness, 

your springs are sour, your summers are parched, 

your autumns are empty and your winters are dry. 

This is because you have never felt the stung of 

your conscience. You are simply an unfeeling 

barbarian. My mind is flummoxed by the thought 

that we fallow a faith that stands on authorityhypocrisy. 

Hypocrisy tributes which vice pays to 

virtue. It is through pain that evil within is 

conquered. A man who fears suffering is already 

suffering from that what he fears. Each suffering 

is rewarded and each sacrifice is made up and 

every debt is paid. We ought to understand that 

life's span is one day as if I were born in it and will 

die at the end of it. Great people forget evil that 

was enacted upon them. They seek out malice 

from others with sincerity forgiveness and 

gentleness. We are incapable of distinguishing 

without malice between love and what passes for 

love. Love is the only thing that remains constant. 

Everything else like ambitions and dreams wither 

away. 

We strive, but our strives will amount to nothing 

not until we breath our last. We usually try to fix 

on false principles and thus tread on infirm 

ground. If animals had the capacity to describe 

man, their description would not be 

complimentary to man. Inspite of our civilization 

and culture revolution. Philosophies and 

religions. In many ways man continues to be not 

only wild but more dangerous than any of the so 

called wild animals. 

The basic elements of distinction between 

man and animals after being civilized is that man 

owns the capacity of self sacrifice. But man still is 

not a human being because he lacks this basic 

quality of humanity. Again it is an irony that all 

our knowledge brings near to our ignorance. We 

even ritualize the expression of grief through 

different colors. 

For a hypocrite thought, refuses to 

change, novel ideas or charismatic characters are 

beyond his comprehension. All through his life. It 

is the most pressing interest to find out or discover 

the different shades of untruth and pretence about 

all matters that he is concerned with, Wealthier, 

better qualified and more successful people have 

greater tendency to hypocrisy. Such people 

become higher classes by engaging in unethical 

behavior. We survive not on the ability of our own 

merits but we have the characteristics to pretend, 

to lie and bully to get out point across, it is beyond 

the shadow of doubt that we are the boldest liars in 

our part of the world. Weather we admit or not, 

hypocrisy is an inescapable part of our culture. We 

are all hypocrites in our own way. 

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Finance Scheme For Journalists 

‘SAHAFAT’ Banks' financial support can prove a game changer for them 

Sajad Bazaz 

Amid this productization, 

journalists and those working 

in media organizations need to 

be identified as one of the most 

viable customer segments. 

J&K Bank has taken the 

initiative by launching a 

specialized financial product 

'J&K Bank Sahafat Finance 

Scheme'. It's fervently hoped 

the banking fraternity takes a 

cue and extend specialized 

products and services to help 

the media fraternity to scale up 

their socio-economic status at 

least in line with other 

professionals. 

or quite long I have found journalists here finding 

themselves in the unenviable position of being 

Frejected for loan facility – be it home or personal loans 

- by the banks. Those who are lucky get it sanctioned through 

some reference and that too not hassle free. I won't shy to 

state that almost all banks have included the journalist 

community in the negative profile and mostly described as 

'possible defaulters'. 

In this connection I have two interesting personal 

incidents to share. First, my private tutor during my high 

school studies was not a professional teacher, but a journalist. 

He was not working in any media organisation, but was a 

freelancer. He was operating from home. His articles were 

appearing in national English dailies and monthly magazines. 

He had assigned me a job to deliver envelopes containing his 

articles at post office and manage sending them through 

'registered post' to different newspaper and magazine offices. 

He used to receive cheques against his articles from the 

publications and I used to deposit these cheques in his bank 

account. 

Precisely, journalism was his main source of earnings 

and was living comfortably. But over a period of time I could 

not see him growing economically. He was always struggling 

on the financial front. He had earned a lot of respect and 

reputation as a writer, but was always struggling for finances 

when in dire need to negotiate even his routine domestic 

issues. Second, immediately after completing by Post 

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Graduation in Mass Communication & 

Journalism I joined the journalism profession 

as Sub Editor in this newspaper in May 1988. 

It's worth mentioning that Greater Kashmir 

started its journey in May 1988. After getting 

my first ever salary I was told that the amount of 

salary cannot even buy a mercury lamp. Being 

a new entrant into the family of journalist I could 

see most of the journalists and those working in 

newspaper offices were not financially sound. 

Some of them would pool money for a friend in 

fraternity to pull him out of financial mess or to 

meet any exigency back at his home. 

Basically these two small episodes 

struck my mind when I came across a few filthy 

'facebook statements' criticizing launch of loan 

facility by J&K Bank for journalists and others 

working in different media organizations. 

Needless to mention that journalists and even 

those working in media organisations at 

different positions are the watch dogs and 

important pillars of the society. 

Now the a few important questions: 

Who is credit worthy? Who is eligible to get a 

bank loan? Even as there are various loan 

schemes available for different segments of 

people, a simple and straight answer is that 

those who have repayment capacity and 

substantial security to offer are eligible to get a 

loan from the bank. It is also 'mandatory' for 

majority of the loan schemes that the 

prospective borrower has a stable job security 

with regular income. 

In this backdrop when it comes to media 

fraternity, they find themselves excluded. 

Banks extend loans to private officials, peons, 

clerks and even vegetable/street vendors but 

not journalists. Even those who have a sound 

financial standing too face lot of resistance 

from banks when they approach for a loan 

facility. The irony has been that financial 

institutions and banks don't consider them 

credit worthy and hesitate to lend them even a 

meager amount of finance. 

Precisely, in the era of globalization 

when the status of all human being is changing 

faster, the status of journalists in the country 

especially in our state has mostly remained 

stagnant and comparatively not to a standard 

which the noble profession like journalism 

offers. We have not seen any upward growth in 

the socio- economic status of our media 

fraternity. Most of them have limited as well as 

unstable financial resources. Their incomes 

are not comparatively good and handsome 

according to the market. Even small natured 

domestic disturbance imbalances them and 

this leaves a huge impact on their growth and 

performance in the field of their profession. 

Here it is worth mentioning that 

structure of banking products and services has 

undergone a sea change. Changing customer 

needs and preferences has forced the banks to 

evolve a process where innovation in the area 

of product development has become order of 

the day. 

Amid this productization, journalists and 

those working in media organizations need to 

be identified as one of the most viable 

customer segments. J&K Bank has taken the 

initiative by launching a specialized financial 

product 'J&K Bank Sahafat Finance Scheme'. 

It's fervently hoped the banking fraternity takes 

a cue and extend specialized products and 

services to help the media fraternity to scale up 

their socio-economic status at least in line with 

other professionals. Courtesy : Greater Kashmir 

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Whither Kashmir 

? 

We need to understand the whole issue in a historical perspective 

It is bitter and very few people understand that:- 

1) India wants to retain Kashmir, with people if possible; with the help of Gun if necessary. 

2) That ultimately, India's secular democracy will be on trial in Kashmir. 

he above observation is based on experience and 

as the things stand now. So much has been 

Twritten on Kashmir and so much is in store to be 

written. Writers, Historians and scholars {library 

products} have forayed into past, dug deep graves to get 

skeletons of the forgotten kings. Some have written 

what others have already tried. A mere repetition of 

facts. Very few have gone deep into the labyrinths of 

actual pain and agony of the people of Kashmir. 

I have tried to keep the historical perspective in view 

on the changes that have occurred in the last seven 

decades in the subcontinent and on the global level. I 

also want to clear that we should not be much bothered 

about individuals; however high their projection. What 

matters is the problem confronting us. We know that the 

speed of technological engine has shaken the concepts 

of politics, economy, sociology and history. (A 

prominent intellectual has said that history has seized to 

exist- though debatable). Walls of nation states are 

crumbling; territorial boundaries are vanishing and 

oceans shrinking. A new trend of ethnic assertion is 

emerging as in Crimea and Eastern Europe. We are 

confronted with the mindset of an epoch where 

identities are blurred in political, religious and ethnical 

mist. 

PARTITION 

Tumultuous events of the 1940's have not only changed 

the history but also geography of the subcontinent; 

creating multiple problems of diverse dimensions. 

Partition of India as is believed now was in essence, 

the partition of the Muslims of the subcontinent who are 

now scattered in three countries viz India, Pakistan and 

Bangladesh. Pakistan and Bangladesh are free and 

independent countries. People there though poor, are 

psychologically satisfied and have a sense of belonging. 

It is the Indian Muslim, who has become the worst 

sufferer of partition. Even worse is the plight of those 

Muslims who migrated from India to Pakistan to 

Bangladesh and vice versa. 

These people have lost their sense of belonging because 

the three countries have not accepted them as their real 

and genuine citizens. Now they are neither Indians nor 

Pakistanis nor Bangladeshis. Their identity is floating in 

the air. Their number is in lacs. 

Dispute 

Kashmir dispute would have never come into existence; 

had the Britisher's conceded district Gurdaspur to 

Pakistan. Britisher's had a long drawn strategy visa-vis 

this subcontinent. They needed a pocket of irritation to 

keep the subcontinent on boil and keep their 

hegemonistic mindset intact. More importantly they 

needed a market for the sale of their armament. The 

practice is still in vogue so they created the problem of 

Kashmir. 

Options 

Kashmir dispute was taken to U.N.O by India. Security 

counsel passed a resolution by virtue of which right of 

self-determination was in principle accepted as the best 

solution of the problem. India and Pakistan became the 

two parties to dispute. Prior to partition, on 2nd July 

1947:- Northwest frontier (now Pakhtoon khwa) voted 

to join Pakistan in a referendum. Afghanistan has a 

claim on Pashtoon dominated western areas of the 

territory as its own. Its noteworthy that Afghanistan was 

the only country to vote against Pakistan's admission to 

United Nations because of its claim on the Pakhtoon 

territories. A political question as to the doctrine of 

merger arises. By joining Pakistan; did the people of 

Pakhtoonistan lose their independence or they protected 

it. It is on the same analogy as happened in America. At 

the end of American civil war (which was later called 

the war of independence), almost all the warring states 

merged into one state and called themselves The United 

states of America. It simply implies that the political 

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doctrine of merger of small states is not only convenient 

but sustainable political method to protect their 

freedom and independence. 

Division or break up of states on the other hand 

provides some kind of succor but also carries with it the 

seeds of destruction. Take the case of Pakistan's break 

up: - emergence of Bangladesh created new legal, 

social, political and constitutional questions. Based on 

the principles of inheritance, Bangladesh can, when it 

decides to do so claim to be the party to Kashmir 

dispute. It is like breaking of a family when the legal 

heirs inherit assets as well as liabilities of their parental 

legacies. 

In the beginning of the conflict, right of selfdetermination 

was the first law of Kashmiri people – 

because in their heart of hearts; it would simply mean 

joining Pakistan. They have not abandoned this right 

even today. But with the passage of time as the events 

unfolded and after the three wars that India and Pakistan 

fought; there is a discernible tendency that the people 

have towards an independent Jammu & Kashmir. It is 

understandable if the people of Kashmir seek 

independence for the Kashmiri people (Kashmiri 

Speaking) but when you bracket Jammu with it; the 

context changes. There is no way the issue of 

independence can be treated in isolation without taking 

into consideration, all the hundreds of years of history 

that goes with the entire subcontinent and the specific 

parameters and conditions which the British created 

when they decided to leave the subcontinent. So 

nobody can ignore these specific conditions and treat 

the problems of the subcontinent in isolation. 

It is a fact of history that no state of the subcontinent has 

ever been independent and sovereign. They have been 

ruled by Raja's, Kings and Nawabs and lastly by the 

British. Independence and sovereignty were born out of 

a nation state- a phenomenon of nineteenth century. The 

characteristics that have been associated with 

sovereignty, territory, autonomy, recognition and 

control- do not provide an accurate description of the 

actual practices of sovereign states. Not only that nation 

states are crumbling but non-state actors such as 

international corporations and non-governmental 

organizations are widely seen as eroding the economic 

and political power of Nation states; potentially leading 

to their eventual disappearance. 

Making of the State of J&K 

The state of Jammu and Kashmir came into being on 

16th March 1846 (treaty of Amritsar). Dr Abdul Ahad 

writes- “The welding together of a bunch of 

unconnected and unrelated territories, inhabited by 

sharply contrasting ethnic, linguistic and cultural 

identities, by unconcerned peoples, into a new state of 

Jammu and Kashmir, for their own aggrandizement and 

profit, was a rare event that history has seldom 

witnessed. It was an extraordinary occurrence of 

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weaving and unholy political, social and territorial 

alliance.”(Kashmir Rediscovered- Page 217) 

So it is clear that state of Jammu and Kashmir was 

brain child of the British with ulterior motives and with 

an intention to keep the subcontinent burning by 

manipulation and intrigue. 

It is a fact of history that Kashmiris have never ruled 

their land. A dim glimpse of emergence of Kashmiri 

power emerged in 1947 when the Non Kashmiris areas 

remained on the other side of L.O.C. The present desire 

to make Jammu & Kashmir an independent state is 

fraught the danger of diluting Kashmiri Power. It is as 

clear as white snow that sacrifices are being given by 

Kashmiris, there women being molested, children 

being killed and the irony of the fate is that the 

beneficiaries are sitting on the fence waiting for the 

Apple to fall. (Beneficiaries are Gilgit, Askurdu, 

Baltistan, Muzzafarabad, Mirpur, Jammu Province, 

Kargil and Ladakh). It is also a naked fact of reality that 

in these areas there has been no organized support, 

demonstration, nor actual participation in support of the 

struggle Kashmiris have launched. Should such a 

miracle happen that Jammu & Kashmir state becomes 

an independent sovereign state and the whole world 

agreeing to this formation, the fall out of such an 

occurrence will be a mixture of pain and pleasure? 

Pleasure, because independence is in place and Pain, 

because the Kashmiri Power gets diluted. In such an 

arrangement, the President or the Prime Minister will 

always be from Non- Kashmiri Belt. And Kashmiris 

may get 3 or 4 ministerial berths, they will have to play 

second fiddle role. After giving sacrifices of such a 

greatest magnitude, is that worth. 

What about the present system we are living in. The 

three regions are at daggers drawn. Each ethnic region 

vies for political, economic and social empowerment. 

“On the other end of the spectrum, the political 

polarization is also exemplified by the fact that there 

has been no single pan state party representing 

aspirations of all the people. Even when a party has 

emerged on a pan state level, it has had to posture 

differently in the three regions to stay relevant”- V.S 

So the need of the hour is that leaders of Kashmir come 

together, sit, debate, analyze and reach a consensus on 

the basis of which an ultimate resolution of the vexed 

problem can be found. It is important as long as people 

do not describe the idea of what they are fighting for, 

they shall keep on walking on an endless road, 

following shadows. Vague, ambiguous slogans clouded 

in emotional structure will not help. Ordinary leaders 

are satisfied with removing frictions over 

embarrassments- Statesman create and transform 

situations. They are visionaries who can look destiny in 

the eye without flinching. A man who does not change; 

can change nothing. 


Dr. Bashir Ahmad Veeri 

National Conference: Convention & the way forward 

fter a gap of fifteen years, the Jammu and president and continued to hold the post since 

Kashmir National Conference held a day then. 

Along delegate's convention in Srinagar on 

29th October 2017. Three resolutions were 

The Political Resolution reiterated party's 

passed on the occasion: Political Resolution, commitment to safeguard the honour and dignity 

Economic Resolution, and Resolution on Present of the people and to protect political identity of 

Situation and Governance. 

our state. Our movement is rooted in the fight 

against autocracy of pre-1947. Our goal is to 

The NC held delegates' conference at establish an autonomous, democratic, secular 

Sheri Kashmir cricket stadium. The delegates welfare state as envisaged in the Naya Kashmir 

conference was held after a gap of 15 years. The Manifesto. We believe that a genuine autonomy 

last such conference was held in 2002. The could address the issues of ethno-nationalism. 

conference unanimously re-elected Dr Farooq 

Abdullah, who is MP from Srinagar, as president 

After a long period of governor's rule we 

of the party. Announcing party's decision, won the 1996 elections on the plank of autonomy. 

Farooq's son and former J&K Chief Minister A committee was constituted under the 

Omar Abdullah said Farooq sahib has been re- chairmanship of Dr. Karan Singh (later on G.M. 

elected as party president. He said Farooq was not Shah took over as chairman after Dr. Singh's 

interested in continuing as the party president. resignation). The state autonomy committee 

“However, the party wanted him to continue. He recommended maximum autonomy for J&K. 

is a senior politician and we still want him to Another committee on regional autonomy 

continue with this responsibility”. 

suggested devolution of power to eight regions 

Farooq, 88, has been NC president since within the state for administrative convenience. 

1981 except for a seven years period from 2002 After a threadbare discussion for five days, the 

to 2009. 

autonomy resolution was passed with two-third 

In the last delegates convention of party majority in the year 2000. However the Vajpayee 

in 2002, Farooq had handed over responsibility led NDA government rejected the state autonomy 

of the party to his son, Omar. 

committee report. When NC under Farooq Sahab 

Omar, however, resigned from the post was contemplating the next course of action on 

in 2009 after taking over as chief minister of the eve of the demise of Begum Akbar Jehan, both 

NC-Congress coalition government in the state. Vajpayee and Advani promised to look into the 

In January 2009, Farooq was again elected party report. Nothing substantial happened in the next 

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seventeen years but we will continue our efforts 

towards this goal. 

Religious harmony and secularism are 

basic pillars of our ideology. The party will 

continue to fight against the communal 

onslaughts from different quarters. We have 

adopted one of the most successful land reforms 

in the world. Land to the tiller was a cherished 

dream of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. In one 

fell swoop the long tradition of feudalism was 

dismantled and peasants were liberated from the 

Manifesto focused on issues of poverty, illiteracy, 

backwardness, women empowerment, lack of 

infrastructure, unemployment, disease and lack 

of democracy. These issues are still a challenge 

for us even after seven decades of the end of dogra 

autocracy. The state economy is failing to absorb 

the large man power available in the market. 

Unemployment is at its peak. We have lakhs of 

unemployed youth who could turn out to be a 

bane or boon for the state. Tourism industry is in 

shambles thanks to negative portrayal by national 

media and the state government's inability to 

bonds of slavery. One of the main causes for 

dismissal of Sheikh Abdullah in 1953 was to 

contain this revolutionary movement for 

emancipation of the oppressed masses. In the 

same vein Farooq Sahab was unceremoniously 

dismissed in 1984. But these tactics will never 

deter NC to fight for the restoration of 1952 status 

to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. 

The Economic Resolution revolves 

around Sheikh Sahab's famous speech which he 

delivered at 1944 delegate's convention in Sopore 

where he said; “We will produce such 

magnificent human beings, who are equal to the 

glory of this beautiful land where such happy and 

cultured people live, whose creative and cultural 

aspirations may be many, but who are filled with 

spiritual endowment as well, where the wise, the 

skilled and the intelligent citizens earn their 

livelihood by honest toil, be happy and enjoy the 

beauties of nature”. The Naya Kashmir 

attract tourists far and wide. We are bracing up for 

a major power crisis this winter. The present 

government led by PDP is unable to fulfill its 

promise of bringing back power projects from 

NHPC. Even data regarding NHPC's operations 

in the state is in classified category. The small 

power projects taken up by the previous NC led 

government were either abandoned or work has 

been slowed down because of negligence. The 

state economy was hard hit by GST. The GST bill 

was hurriedly passed in the assembly without any 

discussion. It gave a severe blow to the whole sale 

and retail traders. Walnut sector is completely 

under duress due to duty free imports and by 

putting walnuts under 5 per cent GST slab. The 

BJP state president has termed the GST tax 

imposition on the state as a victory for his party 

which stands for complete integration of the state 

with the union of India. NC on the other hand 

stands firm on restoring both the political and 

financial autonomy of the state. 

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WHOM DO 

THE MAINSTREAM POLITICAL LEADERS 

REPRESENT IN KASHMIR VALLEY 

It is now nearly 7 decades since the Indian princely state of 

Jammu & Kashmir acceded to India dominion on Oct 26th 

Affairs of this state are still trapped in controversies that do 

have international implications. The terms “main stream” political party 

is often used in reference to no other Indian state except the state of 

Jammu & Kashmir. The definition of a mainstream political party has not 

been fixed to fair logics to J&K. No doubt in simple terms any ideology 

individual group party could be taken as part of main stream in case it has 

no doubts about its total identity being one with the nationality of the 

country one is living in. But in J&K even those who consider J&K State 

an issue yet to be finally settled in part or total as regards the 'erstwhile 

princely state acceding to either dominion where Pakistan could be 

another stakeholder along with India are named as mainstream political 

parties. 

To quote J&K PDP has laid down it's ideological draft in the Self 

Rule Framework 2008, that among other things talks of something like 

joint shared control of India and Pakistan on some affairs concerning 

Jammu & Kashmir. Whereas, National Conference has been talking of 

Autonomy Greater Autonomy that appeared talking more of power 

sharing between Center and State. PDP Self Rule too has defined the Self 

Rule vis. vis Autonomy of National Conference at para 58 of it's Selfrule 

Frame Work Doc where Self Rule refers to seeking autonomy 

from the Nation-state of India, whereas ( NC's) autonomy connotes 

relative autonomy from the Government of India and at para 59 it says 

Autonomy refers to empowerment of the Government of Jammu and 

Kashmir vis-a-vis the Government of India, as such ( NC's) Autonomy 

becomes a part of the Center - State debate in the Indian federal set up 

whereas (PDP's) Self-rule on the other hand refers to the 

empowerment of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, vis-a-vis the 

nation of India. So, surely self-rule concept does make indirect 

references in relation to the accession 1947 of J&K with India that comes 

still more under question when at para 77 the Self Rule Framework 

Doc2008 says that “The Regional Council of Greater Jammu and 

Kashmir will have 50 members. The respective state assemblies of J&K 

and Pakistan Administered Kashmir shall elect 40 members. The 

remaining 10 members will be nominated, five each, by the 

Governments of India and Pakistan”. So what is “Kashmir Issue” that 

DAYA SAGAR 

Self-rule Frame Work 

Doc where Self Rule 

refers to seeking 

autonomy from the 

Nation-state of India, 

whereas ( NC's) 

autonomy connotes 

relative autonomy from 

the Government of India 

“The Regional Council of 

Greater Jammu and 

Kashmir will have 50 

members. The 

respective state 

assemblies of J&K and 

Pakistan Administered 

Kashmir shall elect 40 

members. The 

remaining 10 members 

will be nominated, five 

each, by the 

Governments of India 

and Pakistan”. 

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some 'mainstream' leadership talks about could be leadership could not even reach the 'kashmiri 

read from the contents of Self Rule Doc as well. migrants' where only 971 votes were cast in polling 

Indian national Congress has ruled in 

stations set up even outside Kashmir Valley (Jammu, 

association with PDP for 6 years and now BJP is ruling 

Udhampur and New Delhi). 

the state along with PDP. Neither of the two has And so strangely some PDP senior leaders 

publically referred to the controversial parts of Self have opined that the environment in the Valley was not 

Rule Doc all these years and hence it is what natural fit for elections. These leaders must be asked whom 

that some people would get carried even with the anti- are they questioning? 

India ideologies and that has been the case with people 

th 

Not only that 12 April elections to Anantnag 

in J&K particularly in Kashmir Valley. The political 

th 

seat were postponed to 25 May by election 

compulsions for valley centric 'mainstream' parties 

commission on the receiving a report from state 

from electoral angles have been centered these days 

administration that the law and order situation 

more around PDP Self Rule like ideologies and hence 

prevailing in the said 3 -Anantnag parliamentary 

the National Conference leadership is seen making 

constituency is not conducive to the holding of free 

more of otherwise observations and statements. 

and fair poll in the constituency on 12th April, 2017, as 

In addition to that there have been many scheduled, one would ask on whose advice the re-poll 

th 

questionable disclosures even on the floor of was ordered on 13 April in 39 polling stations of 

th 

Parliament on 10 August 2016 and statements made Srinagar constituency? 

regarding 1947 Accession of J&K with India by very 

Local 'mainstream leadership' in Kashmir 

senior State and National leaders that could strengthen 

valley is seen simply changing colours when in power 

the separatists elements ideologies worth cultivating 

or out of power and is found helpless in exclusively 

myths about J&K being India in the minds of simple 

rejecting the separatist ideologies. 

masses but that too have remained uncontested 

unclarified by the National leadership Government of Under the circumstances in hand the priority 

th 

India even after 8 July 2016 when 3 militants were should be first laid on correcting the ideological 

killed in Kashmir Valley by security forces. Hence the transformations and myths in Kashmir Valley in 

turmoil of what Kashmir Valley majority community particular worth providing fair environment for 

masses are this day suffering from is more due to the democratic process instead of 'making' some 

National leadership not taking the local growing 'unrepresented' persons to sit as representatives ( 

ideological pollution that seriously and the local MPs/ MLCs/MLA ) in the legislatures simply to earn 

political leadership staying away from the masses. perks from the state exchequer. Calling a person 

elected representative of people in a democracy where 

Is it not the duty of the political leadership 

even 15 to 20% (what to talk of 7.%) polling has been 

who ride the seat of governance through the power of 

there is making a joke of democratic process. So, in 

the local vote to take the real facts and pro India 

case the MPs/MLA /MLC seats under such 

accession ideologies to the common masses by 

circumstances can not be 'locked' and have to be still 

moving amongst them instead of simply making 

kept live better make provisions for making 

media statements? Should not those who advocate 

nominations against such vacancies. Otherwise also 

revocation of AFSPA move atleast in their localities 

time has come to have a review on the status of 

without security 'web'? 

institutions like that of Council of States Rajya Sabha 

Common question being asked these days is as well as Legislative Councils and elections for that 

whom do the mainstream' parties represent in since these institutions are also being more used to 

Kashmir Valley? Whom do the so called mainstream extend favours as well as for accommodating the 

parties leaders who contest for election in the losing political 'stalwarts'/ associates as well as for 

democratic system represent could be the question fixing some minimum qualifying limit of votes 

that could be asked in the light of happenings during secured in polling to legislatures for a candidate to get 

th 

the 9 April polling to the Srinagar parliamentary seat elected say atleast 20% of total electorate in a 

7.6 % polling and bulk of violent incidents resulting in constituency . 

8 deaths and near zero % ( 2% - Does it not put a 

question even on the 'nationalist' cadre strength of the 

main stream parties like NC/PDP/Congress/ BJP ) 

th 

during re poll in 39 polling stations on 13 April? 

And 

not only that , the 'mainstream' 

Author : Advisor Jammu Kashmir Study Center, belongs to a family that 

has remained associated politically and administratively with the times of 

Maharaja Hari Singh, 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. 

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“PARIYON KI PARWAZ-II” : 

EDUCATIONAL & MOTIVATIONAL TOUR FOR GIRLS 

& 

PROSTHETIC LIMBS TO REMOTE BORDER VILLAGERS 

In an endeavour to assist the residents of 

remote villages of the Valley, the Pir Panjal 

Brigade has helped six locals of Sahora and 

Hathlanga villages to once again stand on their 

own feet. The Army in collaboration with a Noida 

based Automobile Company, MINDA 

Foundation provided prosthetic limbs to 

physically challenged individuals who had lost 

their legs to stray mines or firing by Pakistan. 

The army identified such beneficiaries and 

flew them to Delhi on 14 Dec 2017 and the next 

day they were provided with prosthetic legs in a 

grand function attended by many senior officials 

31 Sub Area, flagged off the nine day tour from 

Badami Bagh Cantonment which will entail visits 

to premier Educational Institutes and Industries 

including Miranda House, IIT Delhi, Jesus & 

Mary College, Lady Hardinge Medical College, 

Ericsson Telecom India Pvt Ltd and DMRC. The 

students will also get an opportunity to visit the 

places of rich cultural heritage which will cover 

Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Lotus Temple, India Gate 

and Red Fort. They would also be interacting with 

the Hon'ble Defence Minister of India, Smt 

Nirmala Sitharaman. 

The tour participants will also get unique 

of Mahindra and Honda automobiles. Upon 

returning to Srinagar, the happiness and joy 

visible on their faces was itself an 

acknowledgment of the Army's genuine concern 

and honest efforts. 

Meanwhile, As part of the Army's 

initiative to introduce the girl students to avenues 

and opportunities available in other parts of the 

country, the Army has organised a National 

Integration, Educational & Motivational tour to 

Delhi and Agra for 30 girl students from various 

st 

schools, colleges and 1 Bn NCC of Srinagar. The 

students are accompanied by 02 female teachers 

and a team from Army. 

th 

On 20 December Maj Gen R Ravi, GOC 

opportunities like Delhi Metro train joyride, 

Movie at PVR and visits to Kingdom of Dreams, 

National Rail Museum, National Science Centre 

and Tank Museum at Delhi. 

The joyous & spirited students said that 

they are carrying the message of “Peace, Love and 

Honour” to the various parts of country. The 

parents, guardians and teachers who were present 

at the flagging off ceremony also expressed 

gladness at such opportunities being afforded by 

the Army. They also applauded the efforts of 

Army in conducting such career oriented tours 

and further enlightening the bright future of the 

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2017 

Year End Review: Department of Space 

n this calendar year i.e. 2017, Indian Space management, natural resources inventory & 

Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched management, disaster management. 

I104 satellites, in a single launch, onboard India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle 

PSLV-C37 on February 15, 2017 and 31 satellites, Mark-II (GSLV-F09) successfully launched the 

in a single launch, on-board PSLV-C38 on June 23, 2230 kg South Asia Satellite (GSAT-9) into its 

2017. These satellites include – Two Indian planned Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on 

Cartosat-2 series satellites, two Indian Nano- May 05, 2017. The launch of GSLV was its 

Satellites, one Nano satellite from Indian eleventh and took place from the Second Launch 

University and 130 foreign satellites from 19 Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR 

countries, viz. Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czech (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota, the spaceport of India. 

Republic, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Israel, This was the fourth consecutive success achieved 

Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, by GSLV carrying indigenously developed 

Switzerland, The Netherlands, UAE, UK and USA. Cryogenic Upper Stage. 

The Cartosat-2 series satellites are placed in a sun 

The first developmental flight (GSLV MkIII-D1) of 

synchronous orbit with a designed mission life of 5 

India's heavy lift launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III was 

years. The main objective of these satellites is to 

successfully conducted on June 05, 2017 from 

provide high resolution images of earth's surface at 

Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota 

sub-meter resolution (Black & White image) and at 

with the launch of GSAT-19 satellite. This was the 

2 meter resolution (4-band coloured image). The 

first orbital mission of GSLV MkIII which was 

images obtained from these satellites are useful in 

mainly intended to evaluate the vehicle 

variety of applications requiring high resolution 

performance including that of its fully indigenous 

images, which include cartography, infrastructure 

cryogenic upper stage during the flight. Weighing 

planning, urban & rural development, utility 

3136 kg at lift-off, GSAT-19 became the heaviest 

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satellite launched from the Indian soil. 

On June 29, 2017, GSAT-17 became India's third 

communication satellite to successfully reach orbit 

in two months. GSAT-17 was launched by the 

European Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle from Kourou, 

French Guiana. 

A two-day International Seminar on Indian Space 

Programme: 'Trends and Opportunities for 

Industry' was organized in New Delhi on November 

20-21, 2017. The seminar was organised by Indian 

Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Antrix 

Corporation Limited (the commercial arm of 

ISRO), in coordination with Federation of Indian 

Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). The 

Two-day conference deliberated on the best 

practices, pursuit of the ongoing discussion process 

to support further work of India's Space Sector and 

facilitate to arrive at a coherent framework, where 

in India's Space Sector can start expanding the 

domestic and global opportunities through 

enhanced partnerships and collaborations. The 

seminar aimed to highlight the achievements and 

major milestones of Indian Space Sector in recent 

past, and the future programs and plans. During the 

seminar, the stakeholders from industry, policy 

makers, thought leaders and academia, 

brainstormed on the enabling and encouraging 

policies of Government of India to exploit the 

commercial space segment by Indian Industry 

targeting both domestic and international market. 

AstroSat, India's multi-wavelength space telescope 

completed two years in orbit during the year and has 

successfully accomplished the difficult task of 

measuring X-ray polarisation. In a paper published 

in 'Nature Astronomy', the team documented the 

results of their eighteen-month study of the Crab 

pulsar in the Taurus Constellation and measured the 

variations of polarisation as this highly magnetised 

object spins around 30 times every second. This 

landmark measurement puts up a strong challenge 

to prevailing theories of high energy X-ray 

emission from pulsars. 

An exhibition highlighting the achievements of 

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was 

inaugurated by the MoS Dr Jitendra Singh, in Surat, 

Gujarat on September 29, 2017. The exhibition was 

held under the aegis of Municipal School Board 

with participation by a large number of school 

children. 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was 

signed between the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and 

Command Network (ISTRAC), Indian Space 

Research Organisation (ISRO), Department of 

Space and the Council of Scientific and Industrial 

Research (CSIR)-National Physical Laboratory 

(NPL), Ministry of Science and Technology, in 

New Delhi on August 4, 2017. The MoU provides 

for time and frequency traceability services to ISRO 

by CSIR-NPL. 

Mars Orbiter Mission successfully completed three 

years in its orbit on September 24, 2017, surviving 

well beyond its designed mission life of six months. 

All Scientific payloads continue to provide 

valuable data of Mars surface and its atmosphere. 

Mars Colour Camera on-board MOM has acquired 

more than 700 images of Martian surface. MOM 

atlas is published and updates on MOM images are 

regularly provided on ISRO website. The 

observations drawn by scientists have been 

published in 20 scientific papers in peer reviewed 

journals. The archived scientific data has been 

released to public for free download and scientific 

research. About 1380 registered users have 

downloaded more than 370 GB of data. 

ISRO and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/NASA 

are jointly working on the development of Dual 

Frequency (L&S band) Synthetic Aperture Radar 

Imaging Satellite named as NASA-ISRO Synthetic 

Aperture Radar (NISAR). The L-band SAR is being 

developed by JPL/NASA, while ISRO is 

developing S-band SAR. The L & S band 

microwave data obtained from this satellite will be 

useful for variety of applications, which include 

natural resources mapping and monitoring; 

estimating agricultural biomass over full duration 

of crop cycle; assessing soil moisture; monitoring 

of floods and oil slicks; coastal erosion, coastline 

changes and variation of winds in coastal waters; 

assessment of mangroves; surface deformation 

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Betab Pages 

B N Betab 

Shene Peto-Peto. 

Babe yeto yeto Meti neto neto' 

‘Come on father/Carry me too' 

reat men are always being remembered for 

something great. Nadim is one such great 

Kashmiri who shall always be remembered Gfor his pivotal role in making his mother tongue 

Kashmiri a language of dignity. Technical aspects 

st 

apart, as we steer fast in 21 century, prose and poetry 

of Nadim has today become synonymous with 

Kashmir. We still debate and discuss if his short 

story “Jawabi Card”was the first short story in 

Kashmiri. We still have not finished with the 

argument that poetry written during the 

Progressive movement days is sloganeering 

and not creative writing of poetry. The fact 

that we debate and deliberate on his 

writings is proof enough that his writings 

are significant and that make him a great 

Kashmiri writer. 

The national academy of letters 

Sahiytaya Akademy recently held a two 

day seminar on Nadim at Srinagar in 

collaboration with the Jammu and 

Kashmir Academy of Art, Literature and 

Languages, in which the 'who is who' of 

Kashmiri literature participated. Nine 

scholars including the writer of this 

article presented thought provoking papers, but the 

focus was lost in technicalities of his writings. His 

style his theme his diction and the form of his poetry 

etc. For me the real Nadim shall be found only when 

we not ignore but surpass the technical aspects. To 

know and understand Nadim and his sensibilities 

fully, we need to analyze his writings in totality, not 

merely by reading and discussing his poetry. He wrote 

few short stories and edited Kong Posh and what he 

wrote in that has today assumed much significance. 

Though Nadim wrote only a few short stories, yet their 

significance and relevance is lost in the debate over the 

never-ending question of who wrote first. The debate 

has got more intense as both the short stories “Yeli 

Phoul Gaash” (When it dawned) by Som Nath Zutshi 

and Javabi Card (The reply card) by Nadim were 

published together in Kong Posh magazine. 

Shantiveer Kaul , Nadim's son, who himself is a writer 

of repute tries to bury the debate by posing a counter 

question. “Zutshi sahib passed away many years after 

Nadim sahib, did he ever claim that he wrote first”? 

Then why do people make this an issue. Secondly 

Nadim Sahib himself during his life time said 

that he wrote first. Emerging from this 

debate, one needs to analyze his three 

available short stories namely Javabi 

Card, Shene Peto Peto and Raye. 

Shene peto peto (Come down 

oh snow) interests me more than the 

Javabi Card. It is so because this is the 

story of Kashmir. T his is the earliest 

document in the form of a Short story 

that depicts the pain, the agony and the 

misery of a Kashmiri who is forced to 

leave his home for earning his bread. 

To me this story represents the 

Kashmiri society of that period. 

And in many cases the conditions 

have not changed much since 

then. Shene peto peto reflects the emotions of a poor 

Kashmiri who is longing to return home and be with 

his family and play with his small children. The way 

Nadim has treated this story makes one weep. “And I 

had raised two hundred rupees. I was carrying all 

these things in a piggyback. When I crossed Banihal, it 

started snowing. Chill gripped my hands and feet .It 

became dark at noon. At last I took the middle path at 

Munda thinking that I shall reach fast. But I came 

across a ravine at one place that I could not foresee. I 

fell and my bag was lost in the gorge.” Losing the hard 

earned money and the clothing bought for almost 

naked children in snow is such a pathetic condition 

that depicts the human tragedy inflicted by poverty. 

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One listens so much of noise today about the pitiable 

This was the early phase of his poetry. And 

conditions of farm laborers and Farmer suicides, but when another great Kashmiri poet of his times Mirza 

Nadim used his pen some fifty years ago to highlight Arif Beig motivated Nadim to write poetry in his 

the deplorable conditions of people in Kashmir. And mother tongue Kashmiri, he came to prominence. The 

this, as we learn from documented evidence was a poet Nadim achieved such excellence in Kashmiri 

common sight in Kashmir then. 

poetry that his contemporary Mirza Arif wrote “If 

See the intensity of emotion and pathos. The someone asks me today that what have you achieved 

children in a playful mood during the hard winter are after dedicating forty fifty years of your life to 

singing. 

Kashmiri, I can say with pride that my achievement is 

'Babe yeto yeto Meti neto neto' 

Nadim .When Nadim came to prominence Kashmir 

'Come on father/Carry me too' 

was going through a rough patch of its History. Sheikh 

My three year old son said 

Mohamed Abdullah had blown the bugle of Quit 

'Give us rice; give us rice (to eat) give us bread'. 

Kashmir movement. With a true Kashmiri head and 

The younger daughter said 'No not a heart, Nadim plunged whole heartedly into the 

bread.Give us satu . We do not have Satu Gulla uncle's movement and shared stage with towering leaders of 

do possess satu' 

the movement singing motivational and revolutionary 

The hungry son said: 'give huge satu' …. 

poetry. It is difficult to judge who helped whom. Did 

Nadim seems to be much sensitive toward the the poet Nadim contribute by kicking the great effort 

agony and sufferings of his fellow 'Countrymen'. His or did the struggle infuse life in Nadim's poetry. The 

reflections of small kids longing to see their father, fact however remains that Nadim became 

whom they expect to bring not toys and sweets but synonymous with 'Kashmir movement'. When Nadim 

food and clothing, are heart piercing images of the started dominating the political stages with his poetic 

bygone days. This intense sensitivity of Pen makes brilliance, he had shifted his literary gears from 

him the favorite writer whose sensibilities touch even progressive movement to 'National movement', where 

the strongest hearts. Nadim's writings show his Mahatma Gandhi was leading Indians against British 

overwhelming ability to express the emotions of small and Sheikh was guiding Kashmiris against the 

children on one hand and the life patterns of laborers Maharaja. 

who usually moved out of their pitiable home 

Progressive movement, under the influence of 

conditions to equally pathetic environs to earn a meal Russian revolution and the appeal of 'social realism' gave 

for the family. 

Nadim the subject and theme of his outpour, both in 

Apart from prose Nadim shall always be poetry and prose. Highlighting the miseries and pathetic 

remembered for his poetry. Some of his poems, in my life conditions of Kashmiris through poetry and prose 

humble opinion are capable of becoming the 'anthem' made Nadim the pinnacle of fame. His craftsmanship, 

of Kashmiris. Like the poem' I shall not sing today'. diction and new experiment with free verse in colloquial 

The poet in Nadim is equally sensitive to the internal as speech made him the 'verbal artist and a thinker'. Like of 

well as external conditions prevailing in Kashmir. He 

Ennius who Latinized the Greek, Nadim sort of 

kashmirized the Kashmiri to the extent that M.Y. Taing 

changes the topic and makes others to shift from the 

today accepts that 'Nadim brought esteem to the 

romantic Gul-o-bulbul songs to 'patriotism' and his 

language'. Like Odysseus he became the 'Poet Hero'. 

'Patriotism' was influenced by firstly the Progressive 

This Poet Hero in Nadim has many dimensions 

movement and then by Quit Kashmir movement. And 

to his creative personality. Other than introducing new 

when his 'Icon' Sheikh Mohamed Abdullah was genres to poetry like free verse, sonnet and Haiku; he also 

arrested in 1953, his dream of 'Naya Kashmir' was experimented with the use of rustic and pastoral language 

shattered. He moved away from 'Sloganeering' and those masses in Kashmir associate with even today. It 

jumped whole heartedly into the sea of 'Creative' would be safe to say that he rose from them; he mentally 

poetry and produced pearls like' Lakchi chu Lakchun' stayed with them, lived for them and wrote for them. 

.( Lakchi has a mole) Writers who represent the masses and become 

Nadim's poetry was noticed when he wrote in their voice are remembered by the masses. One such 

Urdu and Hindi, 'under the influence of Brij Narayan voice that represents Kashmiris and has become their 

Chakbast and revolutionary poet Ahsan Danish' and is voice is Dina Nath Kaul a teacher by profession but a poet 

said to have been enthused by Ram Prasad Bismil's by Passion. It is this passion for writing that made him 

inspiring lines “Sar faroshi ki tamana ab hamare dil popular by the name Nadim, the modest. (1916-1988) 

mein hain” 

Awamas saeth yes myoul gov sou brongh poke. 

Kalhan yahan ki hashmat ke geet ga chukka hai 

Bidon yous rood manzils vatenai thok. 

Kali ne is chaman mein dekhi shakuntala hai. 

(One who associated with the masses stirred 

( Kalhana has sung in praise of the pride of this land forward/One who remained aloof tired before reaching 

/Kalisada has seen Shakuntala in this garden) . 

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