On April 4, when Mehbooba Mufti became the first woman chief minister of politically volatile Jammu and Kashmir, her council of ministers took the oath in five languages reflecting not only the diversity in her team but also the daunting task of managing the Bharatiya Janata Party-Peoples Democratic Party (BJP-PDP) alli- ance of convenience. The first salvo came the very next day, from a university cam- pus, reminding everyone of the fault lines in J&K. As India went down to West Indies in the semis of the T20 World Cup, Kashmiri students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar cheered the defeat. Expectedly, this infuriated students from the rest of India who took out a...
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