| No Images? Click here  Two months into the Kashmir lockdown, residents of Srinagar say troops have been identifying residential properties to set up camps. Rayan Naqash reports that police are exercising force on people who have refused to vacate their properties. Meanwhile, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has told The New Yorker in an interview that one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biggest successes was to have gotten the 2002 Gujarat riots cases against him and Amit Shah quashed. In happier news, Harsimran Gill writes that there’s still a lot on offer for book lovers as we hit the peak of literary prize season. Zahoor Ahmad, a house owner, who is in his sixties, accused Station House Officer (SHO) Rashid Khan of intimidation.“Forces led by the SHO broke the door and entered the premises [of his property] and broke windows,” he said in a conversation on 28 September. “I told them that I can’t rent this place to you, my family lives here.”“They want to forcibly occupy the house. This is oppression,” he said.  “Modi doesn’t have the breadth of vision about India—multireligious, multiethnic India. He has been, from his childhood, relating to the R.S.S. and the propaganda of that perspective,” Amartya Sen said.However, Sen highlighted that the BJP was also a party that was backed by the business community and managed to find more money than any other political party in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.  New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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