Instead of learning from Nehru’s misadventure, successive Indian leaders have spent the last seven decades gradually “integrating” Kashmir further, embellishing their own actions to forcibly realise a still-born objective. Meanwhile, Kashmir’s resistance remains defiant. In picture, Indian paramilitary enforce a curfew in Srinagar after the hanging of Afzal Guru in New Delhi’s Tihar jail. File photo by ABID BHAT Yesterday, Navin Choudhary, a civil services officer, became the first Indian in a batch of 25,000 people to be certified as a “domicile” of the disputed region of India-administered Kashmir. Born in the Indian state of Bihar and officially now identified as a domicile of the “union territory,” Choudhary has worked in the Jammu and Kashmir government for manyyears. It was a much expected development after a string of illegal and unconstitutional changes imposed by the Indian state upon what was until last year a semi-autonomous state. Last year after India…

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