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Over to Sidharth Bhatia for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

May 6, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

In what will seem like a sharply critical, no-holds-barred interview, Satya Pal Malik, the last Governor of Jammu and Kashmir before it lost its statehood, has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “besharam” (shameless), “darpok” (cowardly) and “must apologise” to the country for permitting Pahalgam to happen. Malik did not hold back in