{"id":14451,"date":"2010-07-18T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2010-07-18T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T20:54:28","slug":"tariq-ali-not-crushed-merely-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14451","title":{"rendered":"Tariq Ali: Not Crushed, Merely Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London Review of Books<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v32\/n14\/contents\">Vol. 32 No. 14 \u00b7 22 July  2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tariq Ali on the recent killings in Kashmir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Kashmiri lawyer rang me last week in an agitated state. Had I heard  about the latest tragedies in Kashmir? I had not. He was stunned. So  was I when he told me in detail what had been taking place there over  the last three weeks. As far as I could see, none of the British daily  papers or TV news bulletins had covered the story; after I met him I  rescued two emails from Kashmir informing me of the horrors from my spam  box. I was truly shamed. The next day I scoured the press again.  Nothing. The only story in the <em>Guardian<\/em> from the paper\u2019s Delhi  correspondent \u2013 a full half-page \u2013 was headlined: \u2018Model\u2019s death brings  new claims of dark side to India\u2019s fashion industry\u2019. Accompanying the  story was a fetching photograph of the ill-fated woman. The deaths of  (at that point) 11 young men between the ages of 15 and 27, shot by  Indian security forces in Kashmir, weren\u2019t mentioned. Later I discovered  that a short report had appeared in the <em>New York Times<\/em> on 28  June and one the day after in the <em>Guardian<\/em>; there has been no  substantial follow-up. When it comes to reporting crimes committed by  states considered friendly to the West, atrocity fatigue rapidly kicks  in. A few facts have begun to percolate through, but they are likely to  be read in Europe and the US as just another example of Muslims causing  trouble, with the Indian security forces merely doing their duty, if in a  high-handed fashion. The failure to report on the deaths in Kashmir  contrasts strangely with the overheated coverage of even the most minor  unrest in Tibet, leave alone Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v32\/n14\/tariq-ali\/not-crushed-merely-ignored\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Review of Books Vol. 32 No. 14 \u00b7 22 July 2010 Tariq Ali on the recent killings in Kashmir A Kashmiri lawyer rang me last week in an agitated state. Had I heard about the latest tragedies in Kashmir? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14451\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3L5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14454,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}