Kashmir: the ‘Wounded Civilization’ strikes back

There is going to be a war over this. Certainly another war in Kashmir, where tens of thousands of people were killed in the last uprising against Indian rule (1989-2007). Maybe also another war between India and Pakistan.

India's government announced last week it would do away with Article 370 of India's constitution, which gave special status to the disputed Kashmir region and barred non-Kashmiri Indians from settling there. The Indian government brought in tens of thousands of troops to lock down movement and communication in the area. Screen capture image courtesday of Al-Jazeera

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 12, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—God knows what novelist V.S. Naipaul really meant half a century ago when he called India "the wounded civilization" in his travelogue-cum-psychoanalysis book about the home of his ancestors. But it is a handy phrase, because it encapsulates the vision that drove Prime Minister Narend...

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