Most of the world tends to believe the Indian army is on a war footing in troubled Kashmir. The fact is, the army also teaches those Kashmiris who want to go places.
Besides regular schools run for the children of Kashmir, the army has a special course called Super-40. This course is run along the lines of Bihar’s Super-30. Which in essence means 30 students are selected and coached for IIT and related entrance examinations. Almost all the selected win in Bihar.
In this year’s Kashmir’s Super-40, the army, now a regular feature of discussion on TV channels for all the wrong reasons, has helped 9 students to crack the Joint Engineering Exam (JEE), one of the most competitive of entrance exams in the country.
In the midst of stone throwing and…