PM Manmohan Singh offers a peace package for the Valley of Woes
Will they? Won't they? And if they do return, will it be in the same numbers as when they fled the Valley of Woes two decades ago? The general expectation is that only two sections of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits are likely to fall for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent resettlement offer – the grossly sentimental or the poorest and most neglected among the exiled sections of the Kashmiri Pandit community. During his April visit to the Valley, Singh had offered Rs.750,000 to each migrant Hindu family and to create 6,000 jobs. The Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti welcomed the package but said it was upset that the PM took no note of the Brahmin families that had stayed back and faced security issues.
Many Pandits are sceptical about their return to the Valley. "My memories about my father lying in a pool of blood are still fresh," said Anju Koul from Jammu. "No, I don't want to return." Similar sentiments are expressed candidly by others. So, while nine displaced families have since returned to their ancestral homes at Verinag in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, critics of the policy do not expect this trickle to turn into a flood anytime soon. For despite the perceptible thaw in India-Pakistan relations since the process feebly began in 2004, old memories of separatist-mounted brutalities are still painfully alive in the Pandits' memory.
But the Kashmiri separatists oppose such "security zones" and insist Hindus live alongside Muslims as before. Point is in a transformed political atmosphere, is this possible? Is it not just another pipedream that is unlikely to bear fruit?
Amiya Jha & Asad
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Will they? Won't they? And if they do return, will it be in the same numbers as when they fled the Valley of Woes two decades ago? The general expectation is that only two sections of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits are likely to fall for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent resettlement offer – the grossly sentimental or the poorest and most neglected among the exiled sections of the Kashmiri Pandit community. During his April visit to the Valley, Singh had offered Rs.750,000 to each migrant Hindu family and to create 6,000 jobs. The Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti welcomed the package but said it was upset that the PM took no note of the Brahmin families that had stayed back and faced security issues.Many Pandits are sceptical about their return to the Valley. "My memories about my father lying in a pool of blood are still fresh," said Anju Koul from Jammu. "No, I don't want to return." Similar sentiments are expressed candidly by others. So, while nine displaced families have since returned to their ancestral homes at Verinag in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, critics of the policy do not expect this trickle to turn into a flood anytime soon. For despite the perceptible thaw in India-Pakistan relations since the process feebly began in 2004, old memories of separatist-mounted brutalities are still painfully alive in the Pandits' memory.
But the Kashmiri separatists oppose such "security zones" and insist Hindus live alongside Muslims as before. Point is in a transformed political atmosphere, is this possible? Is it not just another pipedream that is unlikely to bear fruit?
Amiya Jha & Asad
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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