The Sharing of Political Power

The Sharing of Political Power Romesh Thapar IF an attempt is made to look at the situations which have matured in Assam, Punjab and Kashmir in a careful, detached way, it will be seen that the very nature of the ethnic, communal and caste collisions are heightened to explosive polarisation by the way in which we practise our violent, intolerant and strangely destructive democracy. Punjab today captures all the nuances of our deteriorating polity.