<b>Shekhar Gupta: </b>A wake-up call at home

Much of the pre-2014 peace in our hotspots is diminished. Kashmir is the boil, northeast anarchic

For almost a decade now, it’s been plausible to argue that India was more secure externally and internally than it had ever been. It will be hasty to call an end to it, or to declare that it was just a passing epoch. It will also be complacent not to note new threats. The external front is still the same as before, in spite of the months when the LoC lights up. But the internal situation has deteriorated. At its halfway point, the Narendra Modi government’s report card on internal security is, let’s stay with diplomatic euphemism, indifferent.

The government inherited