The apathy of Indian thinkers and policymakers in understanding the trials, tribulations and social evolutions in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the reasons for the pestering problems confronting the state, Minister of Finance Dr Haseeb Drabu said.
Finest work on Kashmiri carpet, shawl is done by an American and a Swiss not by any Indian
The apathy of Indian thinkers and policymakers in understanding the trials, tribulations and social evolutions in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the reasons for the pestering problems confronting the state, Minister of Finance Dr Haseeb Drabu said.
바카라More than political alienation in Kashmir, it is the disengagement of Indian civil society that needs to be addressed which is a corollary of Indian intellectual바카라s apathy towards J&K. But it gives us immense satisfaction that these past few years have heightened awareness on J&K across the country,바카라 the Finance Minister said.
The Finance Minister is credited with forging Peoples Democratic Party바카라s alliance with the BJP after two month long talks with the BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav in 2015. The talks culminated into Agenda of Alliance (AoA), which the PDP describes as corner stone of the ruling alliance.
While delivering the keynote lecture 바카라Growth Prospects for Jammu & Kashmir바카라 at the 6th foundation day of Pune International Centre (PIC), Drabu said the Indian thinkers and policymakers never engage in Kashmir and they are, therefore, unable to understand and often misinterpret the real problems confronting the State and its people.
Noted scientist Raghunath Mashelkar, economist Vijay Kelkar and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.
바카라Kashmir has been left far too much to be looked through security prism only. There is no independent thinking on why people in Kashmir are reacting the way they are. JK had the finest, most radical and comprehensive land reforms done by a non-communist regime anywhere in the world, yet there바카라s no book on land reforms in JK by an Indian scholar while there are hundreds of books on land reforms in Kerala, Bengal, etc,바카라 Dr Drabu said.
바카라Why hasn바카라t any Indian scholar written on political and social implications of these land reforms? The finest work on Kashmiri carpet and Kashmiri Shawl is done by an American and a Swiss respectively. There is a unique way in how social structure is organised in Kashmir but the Indian intellectual has stayed away from it,바카라 he said.
While talking about the role of some TV news channels for 바카라negatively portraying the situation in Kashmir바카라 Drabu said random slogan of secession lights up television screens across the country.
바카라From Indian civil society바카라s point, the biggest concern is political and how politics is being played out in J&K. But no one ever mentions this kind of complete apathy of Indian civil society or secession of Indian intellectuals from the society in J&K,바카라 he said.
The Finance Minister said one of the biggest failures of the past governments in Delhi has been to not link changes in J&K to evolutions taking place in India바카라s federal structure and other larger trends.
바카라India as a nation and not merely as a State has to intervene, react and resolve. Civil society is more powerful and has a more important role in this regard. It can make great changes. It has to relook some of things we have been thinking on J&K in the framework of empowered federalism,바카라 he said.
Dr Drabu said Kashmir issue has now become a social issue and in addressing it, the Indian civil society has much larger role than the government of India. 바카라The way the political problem has seeped into J&K바카라s social fabric and how it is changing everything in it, Indian civil society needs to take cognisance of it and play a bigger role in recreating the bits of cultural, social and historical uniqueness of J&K which are being lost almost on a daily basis,바카라 he said.
바카라The loss of our heritage, a unique blend of Sufi-Reshi tradition, is a big loss to the cultural heritage of India, if not the subcontinent and the world,바카라 he added.
The Finance Minister said India has moved from coercive to cooperative federalism and later into competitive federalism and, it is possible to find a resolution to problem of Jammu and Kashmir through a model of empowered federalism, 바카라The way forward in addressing political alienation in Kashmir is not possible by having an enclave of federalism in a unitary structure. We have to change that approach,바카라 he said.
Drabu said people of Jammu and Kashmir react with hope to changes around them and they have never articulated anything against the civil society of India. He said the biggest failure in addressing the issue has been to see it in isolation of the larger trends and changes that have taken place in India바카라s democracy, political structure, federalism and ideological paradigms.
바카라Kashmir is seen as a dissenting idea of autonomous or empowered federal unit within the nation state of India, but its preservation is important to retain democracy and diversity in India. No change has impacted the framework within which the Indian intellectual understands J&K,바카라 he said.
Commenting on the growth of the region, he said J&K's handicrafts, arts, agriculture and tourism can play a crucial role in the growth of the State's economy.