Barkha Dutt exposed on Twitter, for her false reporting on Kashmiri Pandits !

“Dil mein rakho Allah ka khauf; Hath mein rakho Kalashnikov” (With fear of Allah ruling your hearts, wield a Kalashnikov) 

“La Sharqia la gharbia, Islamia! Islamia!” (From East to West, there will be only Islam) 

“Zalimo, O Kafiro, Kashmir hamara chhod do” (O! Merciless, O! Kafirs leave our Kashmir) 

“Kashmir mein agar rehna hoga, Allah-hu-Akbar kahna hoga” (Any one wanting to live in Kashmir will have to convert to Islam) 

“Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e- Mustafa” (We want to be ruled under Shari’ah) 

“Kashmir banawon Pakistan, Bataw varaie, Batneiw saan”

(We will turn Kashmir into Pakistan with Kashmiri Pandit women, but without their men)

“Kashmir banega Pakistan” (Kashmir will become Pakistan)

“Pakistan se kya Rishta? La Ilah-e- Illalah” (Islam defines our relationship with Pakistan)

On a cold night in January 1990, the streets of Srinagar shook with these lethal chants . The edifice of so-called ‘Kashmiriyat’ had finally been proven hollow, incapable of resisting the onslaught of a rabid, virulent strain of Islam. On that cold night, history and politics overlapped and a deluge swept across Kashmir, flushing out the Kaffirs (non-believers/non-Muslims), labeling them outsiders and making them refugees in their own country.

Centuries of co-existence were set aside as neighbors turned on their Kashmiri Pandits, taunting them to flee, leaving behind their womenfolk. Walls were plastered with posters and handbills, issuing diktats to Kashmiri Pandits to strictly follow Islamic dress code; hate speeches appealing to unleash violence against Kashmiri Pandits were made from the mosques. Shops, business establishments and homes of Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of the Kashmir valley were looted and destroyed. Notices were posted outside their homes asking them to leave their Kashmir immediately or face death and worse. Kashmiri Hindus became the first casualties in the battle of political Islam. In order to save their lives from Islamists, lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits left their homeland and became refugees in their own country. 

It has been around three decades to the forced exodus and Kashmiri Pandits are still awaiting justice. Even worse, jhola-wallah secular brigade and their coteries shamelessly justified the exodus of Kashmiri pandits. Some of them went ahead and claimed that no exodus or genocide of Kashmiri pandits has ever taken place and Kashmiri Pandits have “migrated on their own”, and their ‘displacement was self-imposed.

The so-called fourth pillar of the democracy has not shown any interest to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits as the transgressors were muslim. When some journalists decided to “investigate” the forced exodus they could not resist inserting the discredited ‘class struggle’ theory. Here is one such example where controversial charlatan journalist Barkha Dutt , can be seen talking about how the Kashmiri Pandits were wealthy in the valley as compared to Muslim majority of the region and this was one of the earliest reason of popular discontent in the state. Barkha can be heard saying, “Today hapless victims, they were once privileged elites of the valley. They may have been a minority but at that time, they had monopolized government jobs, plum postings and other such social benefits. In fact, the sharp economic disparity between the Pandits and the poor Muslim majority was one of the earliest reasons for popular discontent in the state.” 

https://twitter.com/Satyanewshi/status/1061119145817731073

Such an abhorring statement reminds people of Nazi propaganda. Nazis also used to do the same thing. In order to justify genocide of Jews, they used economic, religious and racist arguments.

Kashmiri Pandits who endured traumatic events of 1990s took serious offence of garbage perpetrated by Barkha Dutt and bogus arguments made by her in defense of that 24 seconds video clip. Barkha Dutt in her defense said, “You could argue that my historical analysis as a young reporter is incorrect or that today I have layers of information and experience to add to it.” Leading Indian journalist and author, Rahul Pandita countered all the bogus claims made by a serial agenda peddler.

Unexpectedly Aarti Tikoo Singh also had a word of advice for the usual suspect.

Rahul Pandita continued his assault and called Barkha on her bluff.

When another journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh asked Barkha to correct herself, she ended up losing her control and vilified Rahul Pandita.

Aarti reacted strongly to the vilification of Rahul Pandita.

Rahul Pandita further exposed the bogus ‘economic disparity’ argument peddled by Barkha.

Barkha’s claim that Hindus had monopolized government jobs and plum postings was the exact opposite of the truth, as Kashmiri Pandits were the targets of discrimination, well before their forced exodus. 

Rahul pointed at instances where Hindu women were forced to sell their Mangalsutras so they could send their kids to colleges outside of Kashmir.

The false narrative that was being peddled by Barkha Dutt was further exposed when Rahul quoted author Reshi Dev’s book on Kashmir politics.

Rahul Pandita pointed at the racial, anti-hindu jeers and taunts that Kashmiri Pandits were made a target of, by the local Muslims. To add, hindu shops and businesses being burnt to ground were made a regular occurrence, well before the forced exodus.

He then posted an image of the poster that was circulated in the valley, to intimidate Kashmiri Pandits into leaving the valley.

Other twitter handlers also participated in exposing Barkha Dutt.

Rahul then pointed at the deliberate omission of historical facts and public data by the biased journo Barkha Dutt.

A twitter handle by the name searchkashmir came out with a list of zamindars in Bijbehara, majority of whom were muslims. The fact that it was a major site of violence against Kashmiri Pandits, pointed at the shallowness of ‘economic disparity’ claim made by the infamous journo Barkha Dutt.

Keerthik Sasidharan lashed out at the leftists for their typical ‘class struggle’ argument, something the leftists use to justify atrocities where muslims have been the transgressors.

Islamist pages like Ghanta Ghar – Kashmir, justified the Kashmiri Pandit massacre, by conveniently using the video of Barkha Dutt on the issue.

Aditya Raj Kaul further called Barkha out, on the deliberate dereliction of her duties as a journalist and her agenda driven reporting on the issue.

One thing that leftists excel at, is peddling their nefarious agenda/narrative in such a way, that those who perpetuate the atrocities are portrayed as victims and the victims are presented as vicious people that perpetuated the act of brutality.

It’s only because of people like Rahul Pandita and Aditya Raj Kaul that nation today knows about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits. Otherwise ‘seculars’ were ready with their arms and ammunition to sacrifice the entire community of Kashmiri pandits for the sake of their pseudo secularism. 

As far as Barkha Dutt is concerned she is notorious for peddling a particular agenda and time and again people have exposed her, but she doesn’t let that deter her from spreading her nefarious agenda.