As I am not living in Kashmir, and as I am not liberally gifted with genius of knowing everything that I have not experienced, I have no real idea about the public sentiment in Kashmir, but as I am living in India and am part of the public, I am worried.

I am worried because my wall is full of my fellow Indians, all of them really educated, elite and liberal are claiming that democratic rights of Kashmiri people will be abrogated if it is made to join the main stream democracy of my nation.

I have heard strange things in life (as I do watch SadhGuru and Avatara videos in my past time) but if I am told that a group of poor people suffering from religion-driven fundamentalism led by rich elite leaders who have shipped their own children to green pastures abroad are losing democratic rights because they can now become part of a cacophonic democracy where everyone is speaking all the time and a growing open economy, I am surely going to get confused.

If what my elite friends are saying is true, there is only one conclusion I can draw. If an Indian is living in India (more so in a union territory like Delhi that many of them live in) his/her democratic rights must be abrogated!

I am completely confused as an Indian citizen. Am I or am I not enjoying democratic rights?

So, it is critical that I find out what is one unique thing that elites think Kashmir will lose by coming under a common constitution that runs India, because I too live under the same constitution and hence must know what it has deprived me of.

If I try my own uncouth extrapolation, the most likely human right violation rendered due to change in article 370 could be people from outside investing in Kashmir and boosting the local economy that has remained hostage to the elites and the powerful.

When that happens, the most fundamental human right violation takes place, i.e. the poor rise up the economic ladder and hence will start questioning all the good things that elites have been doing to them.

It is a situation that no liberal intellectual should be happy with, as the masses are the old brain to the neocortex that elites are and hence are not expected to think or have an opinion. The only job that masses must fulfil is to be fodder to the elite and thus exalted agenda like “Azadi” and not the mundane ones like “education for the children in a good school” or “hospital close to home” that economic development can bring.

The more I think about the liberal outcry, the more I am convinced that Indian democracy is a really bad thing. It is failing badly in keeping the elites at the helm and is thus committing the cardinal sin of allowing masses to rise and opine.

The liberal elites are absolutely right in getting exasperated with a nation rejoicing abrogation of article 370 as it clearly shows that uncouth masses are failing to understand what is right for them.

Indian democracy is falling apart as it is no longer satisfying its universal definition of by the elites, of the elites and for the elites.

It will indeed be sad if a poor young boy from Kashmir is deprived from fighting for the noble cause of Azadi or dying for joining the pious and prosperous state of Pakistan and will instead be thinking about getting VC investment for his tech-startup.