India: Links for 26th August, 2019

Five more articles about Kashmir today.

1. Shekhar Gupta on India’s first mover advantage.
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2. “Again, a counter-question: Who are the Kashmiris? The Right-Nationalists are missing nuance when they say just 10 districts of the Valley can’t speak for all of the state. Because these represent the state’s majority. The liberal argument is more flawed. If the majority view of Valley Muslims then subsumes the sizeable minorities of the state, what do we do for the view of the rest, about 99.5 per cent of India? Can you have the democratic logic of majority work in one place and not in the other?”
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   No better paragraph, to my mind, than this to help you understand what democracy is, and what it’s limitations (by design) are.
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3. On cutting the Kashmiri knot.
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4. “So the idle thought is this: If religions and constitutions are both the product of the human brains devised in order to bring order to peoples’ lives and societies, why do some people prefer one over the other? As demand theory would say, they should be on an indifference curve.”
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   Speaking of wonderfully written paragraphs…
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5. In search of peace(?)