Jammu, Jan. 20 -- This commentary is in response to a piece published in The Sunday Guardian on December 27,2020, written by Preeti Sompura. The writer seeks to present the misconception that the nowabrogated Article 370 of the Constitution of India banned Kashmiri girls from marryingnon-Kashmiris. To this end, the writer narrates a story that cannot be true.She claims that "[b]efore the removal of Article 370, any citizen of India was not allowed tomarry a Kashmiri girl; only Pakistani and Kashmiri boys were allowed to marry Kashmiri girls."To illustrate this false claim, she tells a story of a Suman Devi, who is supposed to be "fromKashmir'' and Ajit Patil, "a military man from Maharashtra." Apparently, they married inNovember 2020 only a...