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

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

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

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.

I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

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

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