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ask me anything. Really. I have faced full force of these blackouts since 2010, then in 2012 if i remember. then in 2016, then in 2018, then in 2019. then in 20

ask me anything. Really. I have faced full force of these blackouts since 2010, then in 2012 if i remember. then in 2016, then in 2018, then in 2019. then in 2020 i know more about these than any commentator because i've literally suffered through it

noman-land 3y ago
Why do they keep happening? For how long at a time do they happen? How does society function during the blackouts? Are people coming up with DIY networking solutions like mesh networks, etc?
- 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
  the population are NOT happy. their concerns are not listened and acted upon. tyranny is the name of the game. people have just one demand. secession. that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle. the point is, people do not want to remain in the union so the government is using every trick in the book to force people to remain in place. from mass rapes to torture to collective punishment, we people have basically seen all. information blockade is yet another tool. you know a couple of journalists from the valley won pulitzer for a striking picture https://www.pulitzer.org/cms/sites/default/files/styles/slider_large/public/kashmirendlesswar_finaledit_pulitzer_003.jpg https://www.pulitzer.org/cms/sites/default/files/styles/slid... you should read on the interesting story how the photos were smuggled outside the valley. it reads like a spy triller. point is, the government is scared of an uprising so they simply turn off the internet and hope people will forget.
  - 0x6461188A 3y ago
    Why is the protester in the picture wearing a US flag on his face?
    - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
      nothing of significance. we just use whatever is on hand
  - ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
    > that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle. Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India? > people have just one demand. secession. This is never going to happen: 'The Partition and the violence of 1947 in Kashmir forced the Constituent Assembly to revise its approach and it resolved in favour of a strong Centre. The possibility of the secession of States from the Union weighed on the minds of the drafters of the Constitution and ensured that the Indian Union is “indestructible”. In the Constituent Assembly, B.R Ambedkar, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee, observed that the word ‘Union’ was advisedly used in order to negative the right of secession of States by emphasising, after all, that “India shall be a Union of States”. Ambedkar justified the usage of ‘Union of States’ saying that the Drafting Committee wanted to make it clear that though India was to be a federation, it was not the result of an agreement and that therefore, no State has the right to secede from it. “The federation is a Union because it is indestructible,” Ambedkar said.'[1] [1] The ‘Union government’ has a unifying effect (https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-union-government-has-a-unifying-effect/article34938894.ece https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-union-government-...)
    - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
      big words but don't mean much. if your government can violate 35a, 370, that means nothing is sacrosanct in indian constitution.
    - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
      yes. >Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India? yes. countless aggressors have tried to exert their control over this piece of land and people and every time they have perished and the people have survived to fight.

noman-land 3y ago

Why do they keep happening? For how long at a time do they happen? How does society function during the blackouts? Are people coming up with DIY networking solutions like mesh networks, etc?

2Gkashmiri 3y ago
the population are NOT happy. their concerns are not listened and acted upon. tyranny is the name of the game. people have just one demand. secession. that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle. the point is, people do not want to remain in the union so the government is using every trick in the book to force people to remain in place. from mass rapes to torture to collective punishment, we people have basically seen all. information blockade is yet another tool. you know a couple of journalists from the valley won pulitzer for a striking picture https://www.pulitzer.org/cms/sites/default/files/styles/slider_large/public/kashmirendlesswar_finaledit_pulitzer_003.jpg https://www.pulitzer.org/cms/sites/default/files/styles/slid... you should read on the interesting story how the photos were smuggled outside the valley. it reads like a spy triller. point is, the government is scared of an uprising so they simply turn off the internet and hope people will forget.
- 0x6461188A 3y ago
  Why is the protester in the picture wearing a US flag on his face?
  - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
    nothing of significance. we just use whatever is on hand
- ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
  > that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle. Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India? > people have just one demand. secession. This is never going to happen: 'The Partition and the violence of 1947 in Kashmir forced the Constituent Assembly to revise its approach and it resolved in favour of a strong Centre. The possibility of the secession of States from the Union weighed on the minds of the drafters of the Constitution and ensured that the Indian Union is “indestructible”. In the Constituent Assembly, B.R Ambedkar, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee, observed that the word ‘Union’ was advisedly used in order to negative the right of secession of States by emphasising, after all, that “India shall be a Union of States”. Ambedkar justified the usage of ‘Union of States’ saying that the Drafting Committee wanted to make it clear that though India was to be a federation, it was not the result of an agreement and that therefore, no State has the right to secede from it. “The federation is a Union because it is indestructible,” Ambedkar said.'[1] [1] The ‘Union government’ has a unifying effect (https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-union-government-has-a-unifying-effect/article34938894.ece https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-union-government-...)
  - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
    big words but don't mean much. if your government can violate 35a, 370, that means nothing is sacrosanct in indian constitution.
  - 2Gkashmiri 3y ago
    yes. >Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India? yes. countless aggressors have tried to exert their control over this piece of land and people and every time they have perished and the people have survived to fight.