08-17-2008, 06:59 AM
THINKING ALOUDAmarnath and Congress legacy in J&K
Sudheendra KulkarniPosted online: Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 0105 hrs
Gen (retd) S K Sinha, who until recently served as the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, is being blamed for the controversy surrounding the Amarnath Yatra. The charge is false and malicious. If anybody deserves the blame, it is the leadership of the Congress party and the UPA Government.
Sinha has a long association with the problem in J&K â indeed, as long as the problem itself. In October 1947, he, as a 21-year-old officer in the Indian Army, was posted in Srinagar when the newly carved out Pakistan tried to annex Kashmir by launching a military attack. How did the people of Kashmir Valley react to this invasion? Sinha, still energetic and remarkably articulate at 82, recounts with a sparkle in his eyes the slogan he had heard in the streets of Srinagar: âHamlewaar khabardaar / Hum Kashmiri Hindu-Musalmaan hain taiyyarâ. (Invaders, be warned. We Kashmiris, both Hindus and Muslims, are ready to throw you out.)
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/349705.html
Sudheendra KulkarniPosted online: Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 0105 hrs
Gen (retd) S K Sinha, who until recently served as the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, is being blamed for the controversy surrounding the Amarnath Yatra. The charge is false and malicious. If anybody deserves the blame, it is the leadership of the Congress party and the UPA Government.
Sinha has a long association with the problem in J&K â indeed, as long as the problem itself. In October 1947, he, as a 21-year-old officer in the Indian Army, was posted in Srinagar when the newly carved out Pakistan tried to annex Kashmir by launching a military attack. How did the people of Kashmir Valley react to this invasion? Sinha, still energetic and remarkably articulate at 82, recounts with a sparkle in his eyes the slogan he had heard in the streets of Srinagar: âHamlewaar khabardaar / Hum Kashmiri Hindu-Musalmaan hain taiyyarâ. (Invaders, be warned. We Kashmiris, both Hindus and Muslims, are ready to throw you out.)
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/349705.html