New Report On Kashmir Situation Post-Article 370, Questions Govt's ‘Normalcy’ Narrative

It is a silent resistance. No stone-throwing, no massive street protests, no sloganeering and no violence. The shops are shut in Kashmir, the markets closed and there are few people on the street except when there is a brief two-hour voluntary break every morning.

For Gautam Mody of New Trade Union Initiative, New Delhi, what stood out was the scale of the civil disobedience, which is enormous. “The presumption of this government that the Kashmiri people are fed up with Kashmiri politics and want development is a figment of its imagination. This scale of disobedience was not in the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s playbook. This is probably the longest such civil disobedience after Indian Independence — it is extraordinary and impregnable,”.