The wider lessons from Jammu and Kashmir

The wider lessons from Jammu and Kashmir

K. Shankar Bajpai

While surveying world affairs for a major investment group some 15 years ago, a well-known international figure omitted India. Asked why, he replied he was “not intellectually convinced India is a viable state.” Such echoes of our colonial masters’ prophecies that our unity would not survive their departure sound both perverse and irritating — especially now that the rise of India is seen everywhere as a major global development. But after 60 years of proving the sceptics wrong, are we not doing our worst to justify their doubts?'

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