In establishment Indian and Pakistani thought, Kashmiris are defined as different from the nationals of the two countries.

The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

In a post 9/11 world, in which the uncritical essentializing of people from the "Third-World" has been legitimized; Iraq and Afghanistan have been dehumanized in an attempt to disseminate enlightenment in those "dark" regions; the discourse of "honor killings" is prevalent in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan and has carved a niche in Western academic discourse as another instance of the incorrigible bestiality of the Orient.