The Acorn  

Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Kosovo
Mr Mehta’s op-ed in the Indian Express is brilliant. (Not only because it echoes most of the points made on this blog. Well, that too!)
As Michael Mann, in an important article on the “Dark Side of Democracy” had noted, modern European history has built in an irrevocable drive towards ethnic homogenisation [...]

Kosovo’s independence is a product of the lazy belief that multi-ethnic secular states won’t work
The manner in which Serbia treated its province of Kosovo, the argument goes, leaves it with little legitimacy to retain control over it. Ergo, independence.
Forget that such concern for wronged populations is highly selective and exceptional. Underlying the West’s support [...]