Viswapramod blog

The issue of using a so-called 'human shield' in Kashmir to control the extreme conditions during the by-poll has sparked an unnecessary controversy by a section of the biased intelligentsia. Let us first understand the meaning of a human shield, in the context of international law. Geneva convention very clearly says " use of civilian human shields is prohibited in the conventional warfare against the opponent's army". Neither there was the Pakistan army nor there were a group of armed terrorists, whom our men in uniform had to encounter, In fact, there were more than 500 civilian stone pelters whom, a handful of army personnel had to deal with. For this, we can clearly distinguish what is right and what is wrong. The situation in Kashmir is that of a proxy war, proudly sponsored by the Pakistani establishment, but what is more blatantly visible now is a massive international human rights lobby, supported by sections of Indian media, intellectuals, NGO'S, h...

The struggle for India's independence and Indian National movement was based on one purpose of freeing India from a colonial and exploitative rule of the British. The nationalism which emerged from this discourse was essentially anti-Imperial and anti-colonial in nature. This version of nationalism became the ethos of India for generations to come. But unfortunately in the recent times, due to the adhesive influence of the dominant intellectual discourse ( essentially left liberal, colonialist and Marxist), the idea of Indian nationalism has been distorted dented and tainted systematically. This is happening so rampantly because Indian nationalism has been linked with the aggressive nationalism of Europe which had left behind the legacies of world wars. Some sections of intelligentsia even equate Indian nationalism with fascism. One must understand these two versions of nationalism are entirely different because their essence, nature and the very purpose is different. If we look...