Mitali Saran: Aliens at home

The trust deficit in Kashmir comes from the empathy deficit

Mitali Saran  |  New Delhi  July 15, 2016 Last Updated at 13:25 IST

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If you want an insight into the nature of a state, look at how it treats its own most vulnerable people — its women, children, and seniors; its poor; its disabled; its sexual and religious minorities; and its marginalised. The Indian state is often too busy chasing money, power, and status, to muster much empathy for its dreary domestic problems. As much as it can be the mature voice of reason, it can also behave like the puffed-up wannabe who swans around all day talking big and sucking up, and at night gets drunk and beats his wife and yells at the kids. It can vent its own ...

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Mitali Saran: Aliens at home