So Modi has turned Kashmir into a vast open air prison–and to what end? To throw red meat to his base? To piss off the Pakistanis? To show Trump who’s the boss in this neighborhood? To put an end to political violence in Kashmir? Good luck with that, seventy years after the partition.
You can’t solve deep-seated political problems in a truly democratic system with pure repression. Frankly, I can only see two models here, and both are troubling. One is Xinjiang, with the surveillance state and the Uighur camps. The other is the West Bank. Is that what India really wants?