Book «Unravelling the Kashmir Knot»
Today, the book «Unravelling the Kashmir Knot» by a colleague and good friend of the Association of Media and Intermediaries of the Asia-Pacific Region, mediator of the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court, PhD, Master’s Degree in Mediation and Conflict Resolution of the National Law University of Maharashtra, Mumbai, International Advocacy and Mediation Skills Trainer, Advocate, arbitrator, Aman Khingorani has been released.
Natalia Lykova, President of the Association of Mediators and Intermediaries of the Asia-Pacific Region, was given an honorable opportunity to participate in the description of the book along with other prominent politicians, judges, intermediaries, such as Justice Dalveer Bhandari, member of the International Court of Justice, The Hague; Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, former Chief Justice of India, former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission and of the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution; Asoke Mukerji, former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Ambassador; Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary of the Government of India and Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board; H.K. Dua, former Member of Parliament, Media Adviser to the Prime Minister of India Atala Bihari Vajpayee, Ambassador; Dr. Victor Mauer, Head of Division of the European and International Affairs of the State Chancellery, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Dr. Rajesh Sharma, Director of the International Dispute Resolution and Risk Management Institute, Australia, Adjunct Professor at the Academy of International Dispute Resolution and Professional Negotiation, Hong Kong.
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Since the partition of India in 1947, Jammu & Kashmir has been a site of frequent unrest and violence. In Unravelling the Kashmir Knot, author and senior advocate Aman Hingorani applies a legal lens to ongoing debates surrounding the national identity of the region and its people, recounting how decades of misconceived policies have culminated in its current state of affairs.
The book decrypts major milestones in the history of J&K, from the signing of the Instrument of Accession in 1947 and the Reference to the United Nations in 1948 to the Abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, critically examining their stipulations and impact on global opinion on the Kashmir issue. Drawing from personal correspondences and official documentation, Hingorani explores the role that larger-than-life figures like Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Louis Mountbatten played in shaping the Kashmir policies of their nations. He discusses the influence of Pakistan and China in J&K in the context of geo-political and strategic realities, and the possible depoliticization of the Kashmir issue through the International Court of Justice.
Comprehensive and accessible, Unravelling the Kashmir Knot plucks lesser-known details about J&K’s history from obscurity and emphasizes the importance of charting a realistic path forward to resolve the Kashmir issue.