Sardar Patel was happy to let Kashmir go, and what Deve Gowda’s bed yoga means for 2019
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Sardar Patel was happy to let Kashmir go, and what Deve Gowda’s bed yoga means for 2019

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

   
Nehru, Gandhi, and Sardar Patel sitting together

Jawaharlal Nehru, M.K. Gandhi, and Sardar Patel, 1946 | Commons

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

Sardar Patel was happy to let Kashmir go to Pakistan

ThePrint brings to you highlights of the conversation between former Congress minister and prominent Kashmiri politician Saifuddin Soz and ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV’s Walk The Talk show. In an astonishing revelation, Soz — whose book Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle releases today — tells Gupta that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was happy to let Kashmir go to Pakistan in exchange for Hyderabad and it was Jawaharlal Nehru’s insistence that kept it with India.

Why tiny Haryana is India’s rape capital
In an investigative story from the ground, Sanya Dhingra finds out why Haryana has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the most unsafe place for women, with the highest number of gang rapes in India.

BCCI re-stakes claim over Indian cricket

At its special general meeting, as BCCI reiterates that the structures in place will be adhered to and that only its committees can take decisions, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) response is now awaited. Anand Vasu brings details.

What Gowda’s bed yoga tell us about 2019

D.K. Singh analyses what Former Prime Minister and JD (S) president H.D. Deve Gowda’s yoga asana on International Yoga Day and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s conspicuous absence from his government-organised yoga event at Patna’s Patlipura Sports Complex tell us about 2019.