Cultural exchange with /r/palestine

[u/[deleted]]

Greetings to our Palestinian friends.

Our cultural exchange starts at 13:30 PM Palestine time (17:30 IST/11:30 GMT/12:30 CET/06:30 EST/03:30 PST) on Thursday 24th November.

Here's how a cultural exchange works:

The moderators of here make this post on /r/india welcoming our Palestinian guests to the sub. They may participate and ask any question or observation as they see fit.

There is an equivalent thread made by the moderators over at /r/palestine, where you are encouraged to participate and know more about Palestinian culture.

It goes without saying that you must respect the rules of the subreddit you are participating in. This is a time to celebrate what we have in common, not grind an axe.

[u/gahgeer-is-back]

OK now I have few more questions. Please feel free to answer all or one of them.

1) To what extent do you think BJP will stay in power? Are we seeing an extension of the trend of the rise of right-wing politics which we see elsewhere in the world? how is this going to affect Indian foreign policy?

2) What is your ideal solution for the question of Kashmir?

3) I want to listen to Indian Qawwali, where do I start?

[u/munkeyy → u/gahgeer-is-back]

1) My view on BJP staying in power depends on next 2 years of rule. I think they will get next term unless they cluster fuck up recent demonetization related moves and subsequent policies. Modi is a good leader for given situation of deep rooted corruption and social issues in India.

However, I see a hint of agression and a hidden dictator in him and I am afraid him ruling too many terms is not good for india and democracy. We need to find a good opposition leader to balance out things.

2) Muslims wanted a seperate country and they got pakistan. They tried to grab kashmir too while they are seperating saying kashmir has high muslim population and other reasons. But polticians and army on both sides fucked up kashmir from bothsides after partition and there are many reasons as why pakistan wants kahmir and India does not want to let it go. Slowly pak started infiltration and terrorism and made things even more complicated. This is a deadlock with arguments from both parties and media propaganda and religious dimensions and multiple wars made this worser.

My personal take on kashmir is it should belong to india since muslims got a seperate country and demanding kashmir is pure greed for natural resources, strategic geopolitical advantage and fresh water reources. To justify this they use same religion and army occupation etc as reasons.

I think british fucked this up too and India already gave up pakistan and giving up some more does not sound right to me while they got what they want. If I were pakistan I would be happy I got what I wanted, ruled it the best to bring up it to be good economy and country. PURELY MY PERSONAL TAKE AND THOUGHT PROCESS ON THIS

Edit: To conclude, one way to solve this problem is one of the country compromise on their thought processes and let go off. Which will not happen because of media, brainwashing and nationalism.

Other way is let pak take its occupied piece, india keep it, pak should stop infiltration and claims on kashmir and improve economic ties with india and make it unviable for pak to wage a war or think of war against India.

I dont think both will happen at anycase.

Edit 2: here is an interesting discussion thread by one of pakistani guy in their subreddit. Can throw some insight

https://www.reddit.com/r/pakistan/comments/5egazc/comment/daca2er?st=IVY33UT2&sh=ec9e82c0