BY: AZAM INQILABI Whither catholicism of Indian democratic leaders who, in their political demeanour, are ideally altruistic in Delhi and blatantly fascistic, chauvinistic and procrustean in Srinagar? Who reneged on the pledge and promise which Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian Premier, made on November 11, 1947 at historical Lal Chowk Srinagar in the presence of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and thousands of Kashmiris who had thronged the Lal square? Yes, it was Pt. Nehru himself who, while feeling nostalgic about the regressive Chanakiyan and Machiavellian politics, backed out of his commitment with perfect perfidy and eventually, in a fit of authoritarianism dethroned Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, the Prime Minister of Kashmir, and lodged him in a prison where he remained languishing for long eleven years. Thus 9th of August, 1953 marks the beginning of Indian proactive political onslaught here. It was the domineering and overbearing attitud...
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