When India reworks its democracy, Kashmir could become a part of us | The Indian Express

When India reworks its democracy, Kashmir could become a part of us | The Indian Express

Written by Shiv Visvanathan |Updated: August 23, 2019 8:00:45 am

The writer is a social scientist

When India reworks its democracy, Kashmir could become a part of us

The Humpty Dumpty we call Kashmir cannot be put together again till we re-invent our democracy. August 15, 2019, might be the beginning or the end of it. That is the question India has to answer.

When India reworks its democracy, Kashmir could become a part of us.

In August, Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh were declared Union Territories and the history of Kashmir was rewritten. So the newspaper proclaimed, as the media went out of its way to create an epidemic of acclamation in the wake of the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah declaration.