{"id":7108,"date":"2019-08-15T01:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/14\/narendra-modi-kashmir-hindu-first-india-autonomy"},"modified":"2019-08-15T01:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T16:47:03","slug":"indias-illegal-power-grab-is-turning-kashmir-into-a-colony-mirza-waheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7108","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s illegal power grab is turning Kashmir into a colony | Mirza Waheed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s nationalist takeover runs roughshod over Kashmir\u2019s special status and its people\u2019s rights<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t been able to hear the voices of my parents for more than a week now. We usually talk or exchange messages a few times during the day, mostly about their creeping health issues or about my children\u2019s latest antics here in London. But now, not a peep. It\u2019s because, like all Kashmiris, they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/14\/kashmir-more-protests-expected-as-india-marks-independence\" title=\"\">under siege<\/a>, experiencing the worst crackdown in three decades, imposed by the Indian government as it revoked the region\u2019s autonomy by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/india-cancellation-of-kashmir-special-status-will-have-consequences\" title=\"\">abrogating article 370<\/a> of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/10\/modi-hardline-hindu-coup-kashmir-threatens-india-democracy\">Why Modi\u2019s Kashmir coup threatens India\u2019s democracy<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/14\/narendra-modi-kashmir-hindu-first-india-autonomy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s nationalist takeover runs roughshod over Kashmir\u2019s special status and its people\u2019s rightsI haven\u2019t been able to hear the voices of my parents for more than a week now. We usually talk or exchange messages a few times during the day, mos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,447,432,433,4,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-politics","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7109,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}