Unleashing Thoughts

  Whenever there is a conflict between India and Pakistan, Kashmir serves as a battleground for them to vent their frustrations and disputes. People's lives there have been turned into a living hell. The ongoing strife between the two countries has resulted in a series of border discords and tensions. Kashmir's problem was not only territorial but also rooted in religious feudalism and extremism. Some have even compared Kashmiri pandits to ancient Roman slaves who were merely treated as dogs for their own benefit. The history of Kashmir has always been violent and tumultuous. The origins of the conflict in Kashmir can be traced back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the region was a princely state under the rule of the British Indian Empire. After India gained independence from Britain in 1947, the princely state of Kashmir was faced with the choice of joining either India or Pakistan. The Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh, who was a Hindu King, initially sought to ...

The Communist Manifesto (1848) was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It became a revolutionary and radical statement between political parties and the general public during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This manifesto gave birth to a new political concept that is still relevant today. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl and Friedrich described all aspects of history as a result of class struggle between the aristocracy (the high class holding hereditary titles), the bourgeoisie (the capitalist class), and the proletariat (the lowest class/working class). Its main idea was to overthrow capitalism or a capitalistic society and be replaced by a worker’s society. The main theme was basically that the proletariat should be protected and raised to the position of the leading and ruling class. The manifesto breaks down into a preface, a nice beginning, and four sections later on; I. Bourgeois and Proletarians II. Proletarians and Communists III. Socialist and Communist Literat...