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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The Lockdown of Kashmir with Hafsa Kanjwal

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

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4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few months communication coming in and out of Kashmir, the highly contested land between India and Pakistan, has been increasingly difficult. The Indian government lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken steps to blackout the region in to order to once and for all place Kashmir under Indian control. The move has been roundly condemned by international groups, and serves as another dire warning of ostensibly liberal democracies engaging in authoritarian and illiberal behavior. This week, Hafsa Kanjwal, a Kashmiri Muslim woman and assistant professor at Lafayette college, talks about the complex history of Kashmir and the current lockdown the region now faces.

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For too long, India has been able to commit

0:02.0

you in rights violations in Kashmir

0:04.0

without significant pushback because so many countries

0:07.0

have strong economic ties with India.

0:09.2

And they see India as this obvious space

0:11.6

for investment and a huge market.

0:13.6

But I think that narrative of Indian soft power

0:16.6

needs to slowly erode.

0:18.8

India's seen around the world as a place of Bollywood

0:22.1

and yoga, and nobody can imagine the kinds of violations

0:27.1

that the Indian government does.

0:29.4

Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me,

0:34.5

your host, Chris Hayes.

0:36.4

There's a phrase that someone said to me,

0:38.2

I think tweeted at me or emailed me,

0:40.1

and I think it might even have been

0:41.3

in response to a podcast we did that was the sheer number

0:46.6

of things that require our moral attention is exhausting.

0:50.5

Was a phrase which I keep thinking about

0:53.1

because I keep obsessively reading the news

0:57.1

as is my job and also my compulsion,

0:59.4

which it's funny how that works out,

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