The New York Times published a long article by Indian writer Arundhati Roy in which she attacked the Indian government's actions towards the Kashmir region, highlighting the repression that it said had peaked against the Kashmiris and predicted a disastrous future in the region.

The Indian government has locked up to 7 million Kashmiris in their homes and imposed isolation from the outside world by completely shutting down communications, the author said, after she unilaterally violated the basic terms of the accession document that gave the state of Jammu and Kashmir self-rule.

However, Roy said, the Indian government, headed by Narendra Modi and hard-line rightists, held banal celebrations at a time when deadly silence was looming over the streets of Kashmir, guarded by barricades and barbed wire, and spied by drones, adding that this showed that India and the region would be having a hard time.

Kashmir powder keg
She continues to describe the dangerous situation in Kashmir, saying that the Kashmir Valley was filled with Kashmiri militants and foreigners on both sides of the border, and the region has once again been blown by the political winds that have been blowing on the Indian subcontinent over the past three decades, noting that it is impossible to describe the most severe effects of the Indian occupation Which lasted decades in a short account.

It said Narendra Modi's rule in his first term as prime minister had exacerbated violence in Kashmir.

In February, after a Kashmiri suicide bomber killed 40 Indian security personnel, India launched an air strike on Pakistan. Pakistan retaliated. It was the first time in history that two nuclear powers had exchanged air strikes. Now two months after Moody's second term, his government played its most dangerous card ever and tossed a spark in a powder keg.

Roy: Moody did not explain to Kashmiris why he surrounded them and cut them off from the world during his speech in which he listed the benefits of his latest decision (Reuters)

Antagonize all Kashmiri
The author described Kashmir today as one of the most densely populated areas in the world. More than half a million Indian troops have been deployed to counter what the Indian army itself says is just a handful of "terrorists", and it is now very clear that the real enemy of this army is the Kashmiri people.

She added that what India has done in Kashmir over the past 30 years is unforgivable. It has killed an estimated 70,000 civilians, insurgents and security forces, caused the disappearance of thousands, and tortured tens of thousands in the torture chambers in the valley.

A dangerous future
The author predicted an inevitable spread of violence from Kashmir to India and fueling hostility against Indian Muslims, who are already demonized by India.

She also predicted widespread cleansing of Muslims and pushing them down the economic ladder, and the state - dominated by nationalist rightists - would use this climate to harass others such as activists, lawyers, artists, students, intellectuals and journalists who protested courageously and openly about what the Modi government did in Kashmir.

Roy strongly criticized the Indian prime minister and said that when he was addressing a speech on Kashmir this week, his voice trembled and his eyes shone with tears as he recounted many of the "benefits" to come to the people of Kashmir after they got rid of their "old corrupt" leaders, and the territory became governed directly from New Delhi "But he did not explain why the Kashmiri need to be locked up and besieged" while delivering his dramatic speech, and he did not explain why the decision was useful to them without reference to them.

Modi did not explain in his speech how people living under military occupation could enjoy the “great benefits of Indian democracy”.

"If Kashmir is now occupied by the security forces, India is occupied by the mobs," she concluded.