[Reader-list] Rushdie on Kashmir

[Peter Fogarty]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/30/opinion/30RUSH.html

The Most Dangerous Place in the World
By SALMAN RUSHDIE
The present Kashmir crisis feels like a déjà vu replay of the last one. Three 
years ago a weak Indian coalition government led by the Hindu nationalist 
Bharatiya Janata Party had just lost a confidence vote in India's Parliament 
and was nervously awaiting a general election. At once it began to beat the 
war drums over Kashmir. Now another coalition government, still led by the 
B.J.P. and deeply tainted by B.J.P. supporters' involvement in the massacre 
of hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat State, may be about to lose another general 
election. So here goes the government again, talking up a Kashmiri war and 
asking India to stand firm behind its leadership.
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