Kashmir has entered the 58th day of its shutdown.
Historical comparisons are always problematic but here’s one that’s hard to avoid: The situation in Kashmir today is the closest India has come to a repeat of the terrible conditions we last saw during the Emergency of Indira Gandhi.
Author: Siddharth Varadarajan
Siddharth Varadarajan is a Founding Editor of The Wire. He was earlier the Editor of The Hindu and is a recipient of the Shorenstein Journalism Award and the Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year. He taught Economics at New York University and Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, besides working at the Times of India.
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