Where I differe from Roys and Chomskys.

I have argued before that the massive energy we are investing in keeping Kashmir in, does not worth it and we should let them go, or to appease my more nationalistic friends I would say, we should kick Kashmir out of India. This is something which I wrote in detail somewhere before, and recent attacks in Mumbai again bring my attention to this matter. However, my position is not same as that taken as that of Roys and other leftist liberals- supporting Kashmiri cause, or supporting their independence. I find the Kashmiri or any type of separatism disgusting. These separatist tendencies, isolationist urges, extreme identification with ethnicities- they are equally rotten, whether Kashmiri or Indian. As long as one party is demanding this land for oneself, other would be there to contest it. Separatism and isolation do not solve a damn thing. Of course one can ask for more rights for state, more autonomy and one can almost make the demand for independence almost redundant. One is born in a culture and one carries the way of life associated with it, and one can enjoy it and live it. But the excessive obsession with it, the emotional appeal for separatism based on regional or ethnic identity, or even national or religion for that matter leads to divided and fragmented view of reality, which breeds violence, or rather I would emphasize this fragmented and divided view is violence itself.
What problem separation of Pakistan and India has solved- and I don't live under the illusion that it would have been different had there been no partition. These intellectuals think that world is fixed, there are victims and victimizers. But it is never so and had never been so. These so called oppressed, marginalized victims are as dumb and stupid as their victimizers. These witless victims of oppression have their own victims and they are as much sadist as any other. Moreover since they lack refinement and sophistication- just because of lack of exposure to education, they are even more dangerous. Laloo, Mulayam, Mayawati, Karunanidhi, Chautala etc. - they all came into power with the promise of uplifting backward classes, but they only uplifted themselves and their relatives. The plight of tribals of Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand that Roy often cites, they are controlling the governments over there. But have those tribal chief ministers worked for them- Shibu soren, Munda, Ajit jogi or they have turned into pipmps of greed, cruelty, insensitivity, corruption, political manipulation themselves.
And everything is so evident, still Roys and chomskys remain so confident in viewing everything from their fixed glasses of class struggle and keep on propagating the myth that changing a system, just manipulating some circumstances- giving independence to Kashmir, educating tribals, preventing mining, and so on would somehow change everything. It is very hard to realize that nothing changes. History tells us, we had handed over complete dictatorship to proletariat- nothing changed. It is high time we realize that there are seeds of destruction inside our psyche, there is something flawed with it, and unless that is seen and tackled everything would remain merely cosmetic. Whatever utopia we build with that flawed psyche, it will not only be meaningless, but the added energy and enthusiasm would make that even more lethal. But seeing the things as they are, this vast reality as it is, requires a solitary journey, losing our beliefs and faiths of religious and secular utopias, not being able to take refuge in anything man made something which ignorant as well as so called intellectuals obsessed with activity are singularly incapable of. It requires a receptive heart, one which is silent, one which is humble in its approach to reality, one which is seeing the totality of it- and not imposing on the reality its own learned knowledge and classification- seeing the oppressor as well oppressed, and the rest of it, what is outside as well as what is inside. to explore what an extraordinary phenomenon life is. There is no leader in this not are there followers in it, no one can be guide or intermediate in this. And without understanding this extraordinary movement of life, this vast reality one is bound to live in illusion and life is reduced to the mechanical labor which has no meaning. And history has shown us, without clearing that corruption and poverty of the psyche- all the movements inevitably degenerate into same thing against which they arose.
It does not mean that I support the oppresors or exploiters, I just wish to add that situation is far more complex and demands far more seriousness and attention then viewing and applying Marxist solutions to it.