Saturday, October 16, 2010

ToI: conflicts in Kashmir and northeast "foreign-inspired"

In a very entertaining editorial on the virtues of Indian improvisation published at the conclusion of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, the Times of India makes a passing reference to the "largely foreign-inspired divisiveness in Kashmir and the north-east".  This statement alone might raise some eyebrows, as no doubt would paralleling Kashmir, the northeast and the Maoist movement with "collapsed footbridges and filthy toilets" in a Commonwealth Games metaphor for independent India.

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