O KASHMIR , it pays to be with Prosperous India

1. O KASHMIR,it pays to be with Prosperous India A Paradise wrongly in search of Identity - By Sharad Mistry

2. The name Kashmir is derived from two words • ka (the water) • and shimeera (to desiccate), so the word Kashmir implies land desiccated from water

3. We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time T S Eliot, poet, playwright, critic

4. Historical • Vedic Civilization extended much over northern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan • Since ancient times, Kashmir has been part of the Himalayan region of Bharatvarsha • Finds mentions also in Mahabharata • Kashmir is also the birthplace of Shaivism, Shiv Sutra revealed by Lord Shiva to sage Vasuguptacharya, and Panini, the famous Sanskrit grammarian • Till 11th century, Kashmir was important part of the powerful Hindu monarchs whose kingdoms spanned till Central Asia • Important centre also in the Buddhist era

5. Historical (2)Invasion, Conversion, Ousting out owners • After Taxila and Nalanda, Kashmir also was important center for profound Hindu culture and Sanskrit studies • Invading Islam / Turkish zealots destroyed its libraries • Islam zealots 1st invaded Kashmir in 12th century (1322) by Turkish Zulakdur Khan • 2nd Turkish invasion (1394) by Sikander Butshikhan made Islam the state religion by enforced mass conversions • King Akbar one of India’s leading Muslim ruler is known to have thrown out Hindu Kashmir Pandits, owners of Kashmir • Since then millions of Kashmiri Pandits have been thrown out of their homeland • In 21st century, Islam zealots have continued this terrorizing tradition

6. Political Disasters of history are the result of government's folly and perverse persistence in pursuing the policies contrary to national interests. - Barbara W. Tuchman American historian and author of 'The March of Folly'

7. Political • Desperately searching for its identity, Kashmir must realize, it was and is very much part of prosperous India • India is a successful democracy after six decades of good politics; Pakistan still undeveloped with almost five decades of dictatorship • Radidcal Islam has more political ideology that has since centuries preached violence • Centuries of invasions, brutal, enforced conversions has high Muslim population in Kashmir • Pakistan was carved out from large hearted India for the benefit of Muslims • Fathers of Independent India then thought Muslims will be happy with their own country • Pakistan has instead unleashed politics of hate, snatched land from Kashmir, unleashed terror across the world and even set up terror camps across line of control

8. Political - 2 • India has been forced to fight four avoidable wars on wrongs committed 60 years ago by politicians of both India and Pakistan • Muslim-favoring Nehru was wrong in taking the Kashmir issue to UN even when the then Hindu Ruler Hari Singh had agreed to join the Independent India • Pakistan supported slogan mongers, secessionists have wrongly hyped `Kashmiriat’ • Removal of wrongly imposed Section 370 will help return Kashmir Pandits into Kashmir and allow all Indians to own land in Kashmir as it is across India • This will help Kashmir develop faster with more number of industries in the State

9. Economic Reasons • Kashmir was always known as heaven on earth • In 2008, it is shimmering under the Islam fanatics • Democratic India has progressed well and now an emerging economic power • Pakistan’s governed largely by dicatators, religious-zealots is fiscally imprudent, mismanaged,considered poor • India’s GDP pie in 2008 is over $1 trillion ($650 billion in 2004) • Pakistan’s economy is barely 1/10th of India • With its 172.8 million population, Pakistan’s GDP was estimated at around $140 bn in 2007

10. Economic Reasons – 2 • India’s GDP growth close to 10%, Pakistan’s GDP growth hovers around 6% • India has strong social sector; Pakistan just out of the clutches of dictators has barely managed to initiate financing its social sector • Urban wages in India go up to even Rs 5,000-6,000 per day; in Pakistan, urban wages in 2007 were said to be around Rs 300-400! • Afghan refugees – over three million – still burden Pakistan’s economy • Kashmir’s economy for over a decade is in shambles because of Pakistan-supported fanatics • Slow developing, small and poor Pakistan would hardly be able to support Kashmir’s soft industries like tourism, art and artifacts, agriculture (to some extent) • Kashmiris will benefit more and progress fast if they are with Prosperous India than with unstable Pakistan

11. Religious Freedom • Belief in pantheism and restrained modernism are at the basis of both Sanatana Hinduism and Islam • Large number of Kashmiris are originally Hindus who were forcefully converted into becoming Muslims • Large-hearted, poly-theistic India offers more freedom and benefits also to Muslims who have prospered faster in India than in Pakistan • Centuries old India’s Sanatana Hinduism is the most tolerant, conducive & progressive of all other faiths • India’s poly-theism has also helped cross section of religious followers to freely follow their religion

12. Religious Freedom - 2 • Islam’s mono-theistic, violence-preaching political ideology has overshadowed good, God-fearing and loving aspects about Islam • The 1400-years old Islam religion is the world’s most severe, intolerant of all faiths • Islam’s strict mono-theism has emerged as the most frightening of all religions • Muslims across the world find India the best place to follow their religion • World’s largest Muslim population is in India

13. Kashmiris… Understand and chose what’s best in your interest for a progressive and prosperous future

14. Namaste… Namaste… and join us fast for a peaceful and prosperous world