NB: The brutal murder of civilians is an unforgiveable crime. This sort of violence has nothing to do with “self-determination”; it is yet another manifestation of totalitarian politics and disregard of the sanctity of human life. It is clear that the perpetrators are bent upon increasing communal tension and discord. DS
WITH US Vice-President J D Vance in India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on an overseas trip to Saudi Arabia, the biggest terrorist attack targeting civilians since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack that has killed more than two dozen civilians in Pahalgam in Kashmir Tuesday frames one of the most significant internal security challenges for New Delhi — one with external ramifications.
Indeed, since August 2019, after the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was revoked, the record surge in tourists to the state was seen as a bellwether for normalcy in the Valley. Given how tourism fuelled local employment and businesses, this was also seen as a pointer to a more prosperous future.
Yet, the Pahalgam attack revived ghosts of the past — and a terror playbook that, security officials said, is all too familiar. For one, terrorist attacks on civilians while foreign leaders and officials were in the country were seen as a ploy to aim maximum international publicity….
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Sanjay Tickoo on the threat to Kashmiri Pandits: An analysis from ground zero
Comrade Satyapal Dang: Lessons of Punjab have relevance for Kashmir
मध्यमार्ग का अवसान: दिलीप सिमियन (EPW, November 2014)
The law of killing: A brief history of Indian fascism / Kannan Srinivasan: A Subaltern Fascism?
A Brief History of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan; Movement Against Communalism (1984-1993)
After the truth-shower 