Jalandhar (India), November 02, 2019 (PPI-OT): Noted Indian author, Arundhati Roy, has expressed serious concern over the prevailing situation in occupied Kashmir and stressed the need for Indian intellectuals to speak up. Arundhati Roy addressing during ‘Mela Ghadri Babeyan Da’ in Jalandhar city of Indian Punjab said that she was ashamed about Kashmir and could not say ‘Mera Bharat Mahaan’. She said that the silence on Kashmir was deafening.

She maintained that while there should have been potent opposition, no one spoke up and very few journalists had spoken about it. She said that Kashmir had been under the densest military occupation for the past 30 years and in August, right after the abrogation of special status of the territory, the biggest searches on Google were ‘getting a Kashmiri girl’ and ‘getting land in Kashmir’ which was disgusting.

On the other hand, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, raised the Kashmir dispute during her talks with Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Michaela Kuefner, the Chief Political Editor at Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international TV channel, tweeted that in a modest pre-dinner criticism of the Kashmir clampdown, Angela Merkel said that the situation for the people of occupied Kashmir was unsustainable and not good. Earlier, talking to German reporters accompanying her, Angela Merkel expressed concern for the people of occupied Kashmir and said that the lockdown of the territory could not be supported for long.

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