270: Measuring Modi-Shah’s Kashmir Gamble on Mandate, Method & Morality
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11:15 am, 5 August 2019. I stood stunned and immersed in a time-lapse video as Home Minister Amit Shah read out the Resolution abolishing Article 370 and the state of Jammu & Kashmir in Rajya Sabha. If you were a liberal, you castigated, by rote – “the Kashmir Valley will now become India’s Gaza”. If a conservative, you celebrated, almost crudely – “we will make the Kashmir Valley into another Switzerland”. But I stayed quiet – consumed by a deep, viscous silence – as I tried to understand this political whiplash. I did not want to give a quick, adolescent reaction. I wanted to assess the government’s invoking of Article 370 to kill Article 370 on the three touchstones of Mandate, Method and Morality. Listen to the podcast for the full story. Read the story here (https://www.thequint.com/videos/news-videos/raghav-bahl-on-revoking-article-370-35a-jammu-kashmir-laddakh) .
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