Episode 7 - Kashmir in the Shah era

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Pontificating Across The Pond

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The Indian government scrapped Article 370, which granted Jammu & Kashmir special status, on 5 August 2019. This historic move has seen many reactions and repucussions - but Som and Uday delve deeper into why the Western press has seen fit to be (intentionally) one sided and omit key facts, why the Kashmiri identity is NOT threatened and how the "Kashmir issue" is truly an internal issue, or at best bilateral. Of course, the government did not get everything right and that includes parliamentary discourse. We decouple Patel and Nehru's successes and failures at our own peril - because nation building continued well into the 1960s. Here are Uday's writings on Kashmir; http://bit.ly/TNIXXXI, http://bit.ly/TNIXXIX, http://bit.ly/TNIXIX