Listen | Beneath the Modi Government’s Push for Tourism in Kashmir Was the Disempowering of Kashmiris

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Description: The killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam on April 23 came as a ‘shock’, because never before had terrorists targeted tourists, says Anuradha Bhasin in conversation with The Wire's Siddharth Bhatia.

The killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam on April 23 came as a ‘shock’, because never before had terrorists targeted tourists, says Anuradha Bhasin in conversation with The Wire's Siddharth Bhatia.

Sidharth Bhatia

The killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam on April 23 came as a ‘shock’, because never before had terrorists targeted tourists, says Anuradha Bhasin in conversation with The Wire's Siddharth Bhatia.

The killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam on April 23 came as a ‘shock’, because never before had terrorists targeted tourists, says Anuradha Bhasin, an astute observer of events in the Union Territory.

Its not that terrorism had disappeared after the removal of Article 370 in 2019, as the Modi government constantly claimed, Bhasin said in a podcast discussion with Sidharth Bhatia.

The reaction among ordinary Kashmiris was one of grief, she said. “They came out to help, as they have on every occasion earlier-that is Kashmiriyat.”

But, she said, the constant pushing of the “tourism narrative” to show things were normal was creating “alienation” among the locals. It hid the “ugliness of the Kashmiris being economically disempowered—new land laws, allowing outsiders to bid for contracts” was causing resentment, she said. “There was a complete erasure of what is happening in Kashmiris”.

This article went live on May second, two thousand twenty five, at fifty-four minutes past twelve at noon.

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