Mid-Summer Madness over Human Rights

The heavyweights in our government, the political establishment and the newspaper business prefer to wrap around their cowardice and self-satisfaction a gaudy veil printed with graffiti advertising 'unity of the country', 'national security', 'patriotic responsibility' and xenophobic slogans. It is no wonder that they feel outraged when this precious veil is about to be ripped off by ugly disclosures about how the minions of the Indian state are going about the job of maintaining the 'unity of the country' in Kashmir.