The latests round of violence between India and Pakistan had this photo emerge that hindunats say went 'viral', maybe in the Indian circles of the internet. Here's a photo of a naval officer dead with his wife kneeling next to him. They were wanted to
go to Switzerland but got denied so they went to Pahalgam, the
Indian mini-Switzerland instead. Very strange even an officer in the army couldn't get a tourist visa for a honeymoon. Notice the air pollution even here, where the land isn't a barren plastic polluted wasteland, an actual small town with a population of only 9 thousand, and not 900,00 like some Indian 'villages'. Sure its sad a newly wed got killed by insurgents while on their honeymoon. But always remember this guy was a lieutenant in the Indian Army, so he was another privilged high caste Indian, going for a holiday in a region he knew was filled with insurgents that don't want to be ruled by India, where the Indian government dissappears, tortures and kills people, and very likely every insurgent lost friends and family to this regime. So there's an ocean of bad blood here between locals and the rich high caste tourists that fly in and not a good place to go on holiday period.
Still besides the air pollution you could mistake that location for being in a western country so well done India you can have several acres of open land without plastic rubbish.
Assuming that red plastic chair isn't someones waste and is being used, but judging with how sun bleached it is its probably more likely pollution.
Below is his father mixing his sons ashes mixed with flowers in the sacred Ganges. A very human moment at first glance. A clever way to dispose of human remains in a sacred river without tainting it. Instead of just tossing half rotten corpses, or the half burned remainds and skeletons like they usually do in the Ganges. Still probably shouldn't drink from a river you're pouring ashes into all the time though but thats the least of the toxic substances dumped into it daily. Then you notice the half naked Indians swimming in the background like its a local pool, and being Indians possibly defecting in it to. Then you see how the water is green and very very polluted (as it always is) and wonder how anyone could step into it and not want to die themselves.
I've stood on the banks of the Ganges in the heart of New Delhi, and I've stood at the bank of man made creek of a sewege treatment plant in Australia and I know which one I'd rather walk knee deep into. One was treated sewage water that meanderd gently into a nearby large pond/small nature reserve to be naturally filtered further and was crystal clear and had little fish swimming in it and many birds living around the pond, this a random manmade creek in a western country to solely treat seweage. Compared to the Ganges, the sacred river of sacred rivers, revered by a billion people was jet black, with white foam on the surface from the breakdown of dead seaweed caused by the water having no oxygen so it can't breakdown properly with dirty, maggot and scab covered wild dogs prowling the shore.
I also want to point out that its only the father and other men in frame scattering the ashes, where's the new widow saying goodbye to her short lived first husband (and possibly only knowing Indian society) or his mother? I think this video shows how Indian women are excluded even from funerary rituals, truly a backwards shithole country.
For any curious Kiwis here's a map of Kashmir, each dot is an Indian military installation. 800,000 Indian soldiers are deployed here, at the height of the Iraq war there was only 170,000 US soldiers deployed, and the height of Afghanistan had 110,000. So on the ground for the locals its eight times bigger than the US involvement in Afghanistan and over 4 times bigger as US involvement in Iraq. And everyone knows how much the US occupation affected the locals in both those countries. That number also doesn't cover the amount of Indian police there that have no real oversight and are not accountable. Imagine if a US officer went for a honeymoon in Afghanistan with 8 times the number of soldiers occupying the place. With murdering and raping of locals overlooked because they're not Hindus and lower caste. So yeah there's going to be local insurgents willing to shoot you.
