Arundhati Roy, who, like Arun Shourie, needs a lot of space to have her say, argues over seven pages in Outlook that the continued military occupation of Kashmir must stop, and that we have there a State whose younger generation ha s been “raised in a playground of army camps, checkposts and bunkers, with screams of torture chambers for a sound track”.

Vir Sanghvi and Swaminathan Aiyar assert in columns in the Hindustan Times and Times of India, after citing different sets of reasons, that the time has come to give Kashmiris the right to self-determination.

On Times Now, on prime time over two days, Arnab Goswami celebrates the patriotism of soldiers who have given their lives for Kashmir. On the day of his funeral, two children of an army officer are put on air to tell the channel’s viewers about their father, with Goswami goading them on. “Are you proud of your father, what would you like to tell people on our show today?” he asks the 11-year-old son. The next evening there is a special report, titled We love Kashmir Too, talking to the families of those officers who have lost their lives in Kashmir.

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Sevanti Ninan surveys the reporting on Kashmir. (Thanks, Shivam, who also sends other links. Click here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)