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How BJP’s ascendancy stumbled in India’s south 0

How BJP’s ascendancy stumbled in India’s south

Never has British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s quip about a week being a long time in politics appeared more apt. A week ago, leaders of India’s ruling party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), fed sweets to one another on live television to celebrate « victory » in India’s southern state of Karnataka. Seven days later,…

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Kashmir families mourn civilians killed by India’s army

Shopian, Indian-administered Kashmir – Ganawpora is in mourning. The small village in the southern part of Kashmir’s Shopian district has lost five young men, including a rebel, in less than a week. One of them, 19-year-old Javaid Ahmad Bhat, was a big cricket fan. On the morning of January 27, he spent was playing cricket…