The unrestrained wrong impressions perpetrated by the media, political commentators and academia are making mountains of mole-sized problems in India.
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Musings from afar | 5-minute read
If not handled with prudence, the corridor has the potential to become a thorn in India’s ties with Pakistan.
The EU delegation will see for itself that any talk of genocide in the Valley is nonsense.
At midnight on August 5, our phones went silent. We have still not been able to break that silence.
I roamed around the streets of Srinagar for about a week. Here’s how things look on the ground.
It is about the politics, stupid! The economics is only a concomitant, or collateral.
There has been an overt conversion of the post of the governor into a totally political one.
The country’s nationalism was built on grounds that did not exist. It’s time to rewrite the script.
Admit it is the Muslim-ness of Kashmir which is a problem in a nation that increasingly defines itself as Hindu. But this won't stop at Kashmir. We could all lose our rights like this.
Kashmir has suddenly been locked down, its people suppressed, its leaders held. But why now?
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