| No Images? Click here  Monday began with the panic over the Narendra Modi government’s plans for Jammu and Kashmir peaking, after news broke overnight that opposition leaders such as Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and Sajjad Lone had been placed under house arrest. Other restrictions, like a shutdown of internet and mobile services and Section 144, were also imposed across the state. So as Kashmir plunged into silence, home minister Amit Shah announced told Parliament that the government planned to scrap Article 370, which gave special status to the state. So what do the Kashmiris think of all this? At the moment it is impossible to say. News from the state has simply been throttled by shutting down all lines of communication, deploying thousands of troops, and forbidding any public assembly.The Kashmiris have been silenced; and in this silence we see the demise of Indian democracy, writes Aman Sethi, Editor-in-Chief of Huffpost India.  According to internetshutdowns.in — a platform to track Internet shutdowns in India, created by the Software Freedom Law Centre, India — there have been 176 Internet shutdowns in the state since it started tracking this data in 2012.This has not only meant a loss of economic opportunity to the people in the state, it also means that decisions that change their lives are being taken without their voice of assent or dissent being recorded. More on what happened today…
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