For over 70 years, Article 370 of the Indian Constitution was seen as almost an article of faith by a section of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. A tiny part of a huge Constitution that had, as if, ingrained itself into the collective psyche of a people. While through the decades, Article 370, and the so-called special status that it had given J&K, had lost much of its import, the Supreme Court of India, through its December 11 judgment (in which it upheld the abrogation of the article in August 2019),
