Identity Formation, Nationhood and Women: An Overview of Issues
Publisher
Centre for Women’s Development Studies
2006
English
Occasional Paper;
Abstract
We begin this essay with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The programme referred to claimed to expose the new tactics of the ‘terrorists’ in Kashmir and presumably the ISI to recruit beautiful women in burqa to entice the BSF and the Indian security forces in order to penetrate their ranks; further, the programme went on to 'expose' the conspiracy of the 'terrorists' to recruit young Kashmiri Hindu men (Kashmiri Hindu yuvakon) into the ranks of the terrorists and militants by deploying these beautiful women in burqa.