I’m sorry Joolz. I’m no “secular, progressive intellectual”, maybe a little dumb. please pardon me. you have to explain a little more. i just wanted a simple yes/no answer for my question.. Do you think Hindutva is the problem in Jammu and Kashmir, yes or no ??If you think this is getting cyclical, let’s leave it at that..

Again, my apologies for being dumb and not “secular progressive” enough to see Hindutva everywhere.

Simple question.. Do you think Hindutva is the problem in Jammu and Kashmir, yes or no ??

Which part of my post did you not understand? Seriously, which part of it did you not comprehend? I can’t be bothered to spoonfeed replies to you. I was not talking specifically about Kashmir, but was responding to wider points and themes touched in this thread. Do you understand, that, yes or no? Simple question.

I had read opinion polls some years ago suggesting that Muslim Gujjars in Indian Kashmir were majority anti-secession (one wonder if the fact that as OBCs the fact that the NDA government included them with various other OBCs in the category of those eligible for reservations plays a part), and that Kashmiri Shiites were less likely than Sunnis to be pro-secession, although what I recall reading did not contain enough data on the magnitude of the difference in political orientation; although there was a suggestion that as Shiite-Sunni violence in Pakistan had spiralled upward, Shiite support for secession had correspondingly gone down. Finally, it has long been believed by the Indian government (with what justification I have no way of knowing) that Ladakhi Muslims tend to be anti-secession; apparently a highly disproportionate % of Muslim Kashmiris in the army are from Ladakh.

Yeah, couldn’t resist! Not that the language issue is as important as the human rights issues or even the long-term political issues, of course.

You had to throw that one in, didnt you ? )