New Delhi:
Activist and author Arundhati Roy, who was present at the massive Monday rally,
said that the people of Kashmir have made themselves abundantly clear.
“And if no one is listening then it is because they don't want to hear.
Because this is a referendum. People don't need anyone to represent them;
they are representing themselves. As somebody who has followed people's movements and who has been in rallies and at the heart or the edge of things, I don't think you can dispute what you see here,” she told Times of India.
Roy also said that “since the 1930s, there have been debates and disputes about who has the right to represent the Kashmiri people, whether it was Hari Singh or Sheikh Abdullah or someone else. And the debate continues till today whether it is the Hurriyat or some other party.”
Then she added, “But I think today the people have represented themselves.”
Roy concluded with words, “India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India.”
Courtesy: Times of India
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O’ My Motherland
"I could not stand the torture my Kashmir had to face all these days and what a tragedy, it all goes unheard," laments Mir Nisar in Greater Kashmir.
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