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Advani criticises Kashmir's autonomy

 

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Advani blogs against Kashmir s autonomy
ThaIndian, 22 Mar 2010

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New Delhi, Mar 22: Promising to abolished Article 370, senior BJP leader Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blog against the autonomy of Jammu Kashmir, saying that  BJP will stand against any attempt to turn back constitutional clock.

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"All that the country wants is to move forward to the complete abrogation of Article 370," Advani said, referring to the constitutional provision that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir in India.

"The nation will not allow the constitutional clock to be turned back in respect to the state's integration with India," the veteran BJP leader blogged.

Until 1953, Jammu Kashmir enjoyed a separate head called Prime Minister and the state was out of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India, and the comptroller and auditor general.

A specila permit had to be obtained by Indian citizen who wanted to the state.

But the permit was abolished later and the clauses in the article, which Advani called 'separatist provisions' was also gradually diluted.

"When in the name of Kashmir's autonomy, it is nowadays said that the dilution of Article 370 that took place post-1953 must be undone, it is all these wholesome provisions of the Indian constitution which are sought to be once again scrapped in their application to the state of Jammu and Kashmir," he said.

"The nation's clarion call to the powers-that-be is that India will never forget Shyama Prasad Mookerji's sacrifice," he said while remembering the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder, who entered Jammu Kashmir in 1953, in defiance the permit system.

Mookerji was imprisoned for his act and he eventually fell after he staged a hunger strike. He later died.

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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan urged Indian filmmakers "to learn from Hollywood" and offered a three-point prescription which could help the globalization of Bollywood movies.

Speaking at the inaugural session of 'FICCI FRAMES-2010', Shah Rukh said that Indian filmmakers must learn screenplay writing techniques, visual effects and discipline in doing movie business from Hollywood.

"However, learning Hollywood screenplay and technology is not about losing the intrinsic quality of our stories. We must maintain our own cinematic individuality," he said.

Shah Rukh advocated formation of alliances with Hollywood to help the Indian film industry nurture its potentially different story format, the musical-drama format and "make us travel around the world".

Shah Rukh emphasized that "the sooner Indian filmmakers realize that screenplay is not an art form but a science, the faster Indian movies will globalize and Hollywood can exchange that know-how with India".

"The big investment we are looking for from Hollywood is the training of mechanics for running machines for visual effects. We need to develop people who can make us our own cheaper, better and faster softwares for filmmaking and have a special branch of trained visual effect teams and talent here," Shah Rukh added.

Stressing on discipline, Shah Rukh said that the Indian film industry needs to adopt from Hollywood the discipline and organisation with which it does its business.

"This organisation already exists in other Indian businesses, but is woefully lacking in the business of films," he pointed out.

"This (organisation) also needs to filter down to the film distribution systems based on their models and learn the science of marketing films," Shah Rukh added.

According to Shah Rukh, the knowledge that Hollywood could bring to Bollywood was a lot more essential than the investments it is already making in India.

"The time has come for having a symbiotic relationship where we can both feed off the knowledge that we have instead of just the movies. The economics will follow. Then, Bollywood and Hollywood together can have a global audience watching our movies," Shah Rukh said.