Ep. 134: Kashmir and Article 370
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Politics of Self-Determination in India
The way the state has behaved is with the people in kashmir is very different from say varsova or anteri. Instead of providing good governance and getting the local people on your side we have instead alienated the common man far more made the common person sympathetic to freedom fighters and terrorists whatever one chooses to call them. The insurgency began as a response to this feeling that normal ways of you know dealing with india in normal politics elections negotiations are not going to do so that's how a insurgent sort of group began. A new generation came of age by the late 2000s who had practically grown up in the shadow of the insurgency at least they knew something of what life was before the
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