Dedications

Arundhati Roy's statement that Kashmir has never been an integral part of India, calls for her to be arrested and tried, my question is

1) A Politician like the Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram blame migrants to Delhi for crimes like rape? Are migrants within India not an integral part of India? If lawlessness and police of a state is failed institution why blame migrants for crime? Dawood Ibrahim was not a migrant in Bombay.

2) Can parties like Shiv Sena target North Indians for staying in Bombay and beat them up? Are North Indian’s not an integral part of India?

3) Enforcing a language of a state to its residents, even if we don’t want to consider Hindi as a national language are other languages not an integral part of India? Irony is English language is an integral part of India.

4) Plots reserved war widows of Kargil soldiers, being cheated of them, and a high rise being built for the corrupt politicians and bureaucracy? Are these widows not an integral part of India?

5) Is Ajmal Qasab the lone terrorist caught in the Bombay terrorist attack an integral part of India, that he is still tried and protected under high security by the Indian tax payer’s money?

6) If Indians are an integral part of India, then why there are dynastic families still ruling the country under the pseudonym of democracy?

7) Bill Clinton during his term of presidency visits the Bombay Stock Exchange and an illegal stall on the footpath outside the Stock Exchange was removed as it was considered a security threat. Thanks to Clinton’s visit the stall was opposed by citizens, when it was planned to be put back later. Firstly the stall was illegal, and when Clinton’s visit’s the place it is considered as a security threat. So if it could be a security threat to Clinton was it not a security threat earlier to Indians?

8) RR Patil’s states after the Bombay terrorist attack, that such ‘small incidents’, happen in big cities. If he considers a terrorist attack as small, that means the innocent Indians who died are even smaller and not an integral part of India?

9) Salman Khan claimed during an interview to a Pakistani channel that the 26/11 attacks were hyped because the "elite" were targeted. Yes how true, as the innocents he killed with his drunken rash driving were poor and the media does not anyway care for the poor and common man, as they were anyway never an integral part of India.

10) The recent telecom scam which has cost about £22bn to the exchequer due to failed procedures in the award of licenses to run mobile phone networks in India in 2008. The sum is the highest loss, in a country that has seen many such scandals. Since the scam involves the top level of political brass, it even has the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh silent (who otherwise sings to Sonia’s tunes). Is this level of corruption an integral part of India?

11) Couples marrying outside their communities getting killed? Is India not a secular country where gays are granted rights, but normal heterosexual citizens planning to get married are at threat due to communal and religious diktat? Are they not an integral part of India or is marriage only valid for an Italian married to an Indian, to be an integral part of India, and end up even ruling it?

So Ms. Arundhati Roy, it is not about Kashmir being an integral part of India, but Indians being never an integral part of India.