Bamzai talks much about the Constituent Assembly of J&K and its ratification of Kashmir’s accession on February 15, 1954. He calls it a move that defied the then omnipotent United Nations Security Council (UNSC). But in the epilogue of the book, he seems to be in awe of Modi government for reading down Article 370 and feels “tortuous and often treacherous pathways of the past, which always led to a cloud of flies buzzing over India’s constitutional, legal and moral right over the valley, have been consigned, hopefully, to the rubbish heap of the history”.