Kashmir is turning away from its centuries–old diversity to preserve the Muslim majority at all costs and to rebuff the “designs of the Hindutva forces” to render the community into a minority. This time around a petition challenging Article 35A that grants exclusive rights and privileges to permanent residents of the state has been reduced to Kashmiri Muslims’ identity versus Hindus of the country to make it a religio-political issue. Right from the posh locality of Hyderpora where separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani lives to the VVIP Gupkar Road…
