“If Sardar Patel had been the first Prime Minister of the country then entire Kashmir would have been ours,” thundered PM Modi in Parliament in a belligerent attack on Jawaharlal Nehru’s failures in Kashmir. But while Nehru was forced to accept the partition of Kashmir, the Modi government is creating a far bigger crisis. Nehru may have lost only a part of Kashmir’s territory, but Modi is in serious danger of losing the hearts and minds of almost all Kashmiris.
As videos of Kashmiri students being beaten up in Haryana go viral in the Valley, mistrust of India was never greater than it is now. The middle ground is disappearing in the Valley with even moderates no longer inclined to give Read More
