After the abrogation of Article 370, L-G Manoj Sinha’s appointment seems to be the first move that may bring back smiles on the faces of people from the Valley who crave good governance.
For the last few months, New Delhi is testing Kashmir’s troubled waters through new mentors who have little or no idea of the ground situation in the restive region.
From how it looks today, the process of mainstream politics is going to be difficult for quite some time in the Valley. How that plays for this trouble-torn region is what we need to watch.
The dilemma for the Pakistanis now is that they know that ratcheting up the violence in Kashmir through jihadist auxiliaries and proxies is no longer a low-cost option.
Kashmir is not a normal region and coronavirus is no joke.
The release of leaders in detention will soon become a cause for global criticism which has been relatively muted so far.
At midnight on August 5, our phones went silent. We have still not been able to break that silence.
It is about the politics, stupid! The economics is only a concomitant, or collateral.
Many promises were made to Kashmir, including Nehru's on a referendum and the freedom Article 370 gave to liberate Muslim peasants from landlords. That Kashmiri freedom is choked now.
The external and internal dimensions of the revocation of Article 370 need to be analyzed in order to claim the J&K narrative.
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