No government since independence, with the exception of Indira Gandhi’s, has been as irresponsible about maintaining the integrity and institutions of India as the one we have at present. The evidence for this is considerable: The introduction of party-linked time-servers into cultural institutions, the undermining of the judiciary, the ramp-up of communal tensions, the war against college campuses, the marginalisation of the south and the east, the intimidation of the media. Yet perhaps the most worrying aspect of this fecklessness is the consistent mishandling of Kashmir.
Nobody has bothered to even try to make the argument that the Bharatiya Janata
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