What she said is not wrong, just extremely hard to swallow in the face of nationalist pride. The game that has always been played is Kashmir being a part of India versus Pakistan. While Kashmir certainly cannot be a part of Pakistan, Kashmir's will as an individual sovereign state has been ignored and nullified since forever. There is a genuine separatist sentiment that is labelled by Indian media forcefully as "terrorism" just to keep up the façade of a flawless united country. It is a sentiment far more different from Khalistanis. J&K prosperity and stability has always been a problem because of being sandwiched between India, Pakistan and China. China forcefully annexes border parts of India across the North and Eastern states, while Pakistan is always at war with India.
Syrian Christians were the oldest Christian community in Kerala, so OP is wrong here.
The written records of Saint Thomas Christians mention that Christianity was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apostle, who sailed to the Malabar region (present-day Kerala) in 52 AD.
Way before the Romans forced Christianity on the Anglo-Saxons, around the 4th century.
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