https://www.scmp.com/rss/502851/feed Varad Sharma is a writer and political commentator. He is the co-editor of book on Kashmir’s ethnic minority community titled A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of Kashmiri Pandits, published by Bloomsbury India. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com August 5, 2020 marks the first anniversary of the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), a watershed moment in India’s political history. The status quo over J&K was changed this very day in 2019. While Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which granted the special status, was a temporary constitutional provision, it had seemingly become a permanent feature. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reminded us that it was not, and rightly... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3096028/jammu-and-kashmir-new-trajectory-year-after-special-status?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3096028/jammu-and-kashmir-new-trajectory-year-after-special-status?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Aug 2020 02:30:19 +0000 More than three months have passed since the government of India’s move to alter the constitutional status of the country’s (erstwhile) only Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, which enjoyed special status under Article 370 of the constitution. The unprecedented step taken by the Narendra Modi government on August 5, 2019 – not only to abrogate Article 370 but also bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories – sent shock waves across the political spectrum in India and invited... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3038441/kashmirs-special-status-only-fuelled-its-real-problem-islamism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3038441/kashmirs-special-status-only-fuelled-its-real-problem-islamism?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:00:15 +0000