@article {article1019, title = {J&K: Democratic India looks the other way}, author = {Jagdish Rattanani}, journal = {Foundation of The Billion Press}, date = 2019-09-04, year = 2019, url = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/politics/jk-democratic-india-looks-other-way-1019, Abstract = {If the changes to article 370 of the Constitution of India were meant “to bring J&K truly into India's fold”, as has been argued by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, then this is the one objective that the move has not delivered, at least not just yet. There can be no dispute that J & K today stands spectacularly separated from India, where the rules of the game are different, troubling stories are aplenty and only now filtering out (many of them through international media), and the people remain under lockdown – cut off from each other, from their leaders and from the rest of India.} }