Sorpreses agradables

Algu volia saber que passa al Caixmir? Doncs just abans de dirigir-me a Delhi, buscant alguna cosa per llegir que em trobo aquesta revista, amb diferents i interessants articles sobre els ultims temps al Caixmir, pero sobretot un (en portada) de l'escriptora Arundhati Roy, coneguda sobretot per aquest llibre. Un article valent, honest i cru, un article amb fragments imprescindibles que realment m'ha rsorpres que es publiqui tranquilament arreu de la India (tambe l'he vist aqui a Delhi), pero suposo que tampoc no he pogut estar al cas de si ha creat controversia.

Pero veient la portada d'un altre setmanari (ara no recordo el nom) local, acusant a diferents politics d'haver incendiat l'actual conflicte sembla que la posicio de l'escriptora es mes o menys compartida.

For the past sixty days or so, since about the end of June, the
people of Kashmir have been free. Free in the most profound sense. They have
shrugged off the terror of living their lives in the gun-sights of
half-a-million heavily-armed soldiers in the most densely militarised zone in
the world.After 18 years of administering a military occupation, the Indian
government's worst nightmare has come true. Having declared that the militant
movement has been crushed, it is now faced with a non-violent mass protest, but
not the kind it knows how to manage.

Goodbye, fear: A police post being dismantled in Srinagar

A senior journalist friend called to say that late in the afternoon
the home secretary called a high-level meeting in New Delhi. Also present were
the defence secretary and the intelligence chiefs. The purpose of the meeting,
he said, was to brief the editors of TV news channels that the government had
reason to believe that the insurrection was being managed
by a small
splinter cell of the ISI and to request the channels to keep this piece of
exclusive, highly secret intelligence in mind while covering (or preferably not
covering?) the news from Kashmir. Unfortunately for the Deep State, things have
gone so far that TV channels, were they to obey those instructions, would run
the risk of looking ridiculous. Thankfully, it looks as though this revolution
will, after all, be televised.

Ara es quan em fa molta rabia no haver estat uns dies mes (almenys fins al dia 18) a Srinagar i poder contemplar-ho per mi mateix.





PD: Un altre article del mateix numero realment sensat, la principal font del problema (actual) no es al Caixmir, sino a Jammu.