Wonder how the ashram business is doing under Modi. Hard to sell that inner peace thing in such a political climate.
Daily Archives: May 25, 2017
Kashmiri friends, is it true that stone pelting is a leisure activity “in lieu of gossip & loitering around the markets,” kind of like playing cricket with the occupying army, as the sociologist says?
Where do these political nimrods come from?
Let others hate on Coldplay. Not all of us are music snobs.
This is Paradise African-style. Stunning.
Suicide rates among veterans and soldiers in India & the US
Suicide is the leading cause of death, surpassing combat deaths, in the US & Indian armies which are of comparable size (1.1 million India; 1.3 million US). The US has 22 veteran suicides every day. That’s roughly 8,000 a year which is considered underreported. There are also about 200 to 250 suicides a year among active duty soldiers.
The Indian army has an average of 100 suicides every year among soldiers deployed in Kashmir with no report about suicides after discharge from duty.
You can’t draw any conclusions with insufficient data but it’s likely that suicide rates among Indian army veterans are substantial, given the human rights crimes they commit in Kashmir. Maybe they aren’t 8,000 a year but it’s almost certain they are sky high.
One Indian military publication suggested the liberal leave benefits, high standards of discipline, esprit-de-corps,”good & caring officers” were the secret of low suicide rates in the Indian army. But if they actually bothered to do the math, they would find that committing human rights atrocities is just as hard on Indian soldiers as it is on Americans.
And that doesn’t even begin to address the suffering those soldiers leave behind.
Why the gun bro? Do I look like a terrorist to you?
This meme was on an abandoned blog by a Kashmiri student named Ziyaan Bin Ashraf from 2012. It was part of Kashmiri activists using social media to explain their struggle against occupation.
Anyone know Ziyaan? He doesn’t appear to be on Facebook or Twitter. His blog was http://hardorestonepeltig.blogspot.com/.