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“Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.”

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Marty Nemko is a career counselor and educational advisor, born on June 30, 1950. He is known for his unique approach to career planning and educational reform ideas. more

“The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.”

“The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.”

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Author:Nyla Ali Khan

“For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.”

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Author:Nyla Ali Khan

“For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.”

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Author:Nyla Ali Khan

“Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future of the land and the heterogeneous peoples of the state.”

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Author:Nyla Ali Khan

“In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.”

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Author:Nyla Ali Khan

“I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.”

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Author:Nyla Ali Khan

“In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.”

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