Page "Jayaprakash Narayan" Paragraph 17

In 1964, Narayan was vilified across the political spectrum for arguing in an article in the Hindustan Times that India had a responsibility to keep its promise to allow self-determination to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

He hit back at critics in a second article, dismissing the Indian version of the " domino theory " which held that the rest of India's states would disintegrate if Kashmir were allowed its promised freedom.

In his graceful if old-fashioned style, Narayan ridiculed the premise that " the states of India are held together by force and not by the sentiment of a common nationality.

It is an assumption that makes a mockery of the Indian Nation and a tyrant of the Indian State ".