ISLAMABAD (APP): Indian essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra has said that Indian forces have conducted a brutal campaign in Kashmir in which around a hundred people have been killed and thousands injured including children since July, this year.
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According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), Pankaj Mishra in a write-up in The New York Times also wrote about Modi’s ascendency to power and how he behaved as an opportunistic manipulator of disaffection with little to offer apart from the pornography of power and a bogus fantasy of machismo.
Indian author also criticised `mendacious media’ of India which stokes hatred against Kashmiri Hurriyet leaders.
He also put on record that present Indian Prime Minister was accused of supervising mass murder and gang rapes of Muslims – and consequently was barred from travel to the United States for nearly a decade – and that none of that prevented him from being elected to India’s highest office.
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“B.R. Ambedkar, the main framer of India’s constitution, warned in the 1950s that democracy in India was `only a top dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic.’
Now the top dressing is being hosed away,” Mishra wrote in the same.