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Craving for peace

The wild mood swings of Kashmiri psychology may seem to be deeply perplexing? Nobody would have imagined a spectacle of bumper tourist season and huge turnout in the ongoing Panchayat elections, after the continued deep unrest of three years. In June last year, the blood of young innocent boys was splashed all over the streets and smoke was billowing from the rooftops in the Valley. What does this indicate; indifferent attitude of the people turning the dispute on Kashmir irrelevant? Hardly anything unusual in the hustle and bustle, nothing has changed beneath. Battered people cannot continue to agitate endlessly without any respite; after all they too need a breath of fresh air.  
New Delhi knows well that it’s a temporary phenomenon; sustainable peace in Kashmir is not possible unless Kashmir dispute is not resolved to the best satisfaction of people of the Jammu and Kashmir. Yet an influential lobby in the corridors of power, which incidentally frames the Kashmir policy, has developed a habit of viewing Kashmir problem purely from the narrow prism of economics. Understandably the self serving vested interest groups will like to imagine that the fleeting moments eventually turns into a permanent feature. Daydreaming?  Yes off course, how it’s possible for the people to forget crushing indignities as well as immense sacrifices. 
Peace is the real craving; freedoms and economic development are the means to reach such a destination.  Absence of the conflict does not necessarily indicate arrival of a permanent peace, for peace to prevail people need to attain peace of mind. A forced peace or for that matter facade of peace is simply incapable of ushering an era of true peace. While the controlling powers are still not prepared to respect the dignity and uniqueness of the controlled, how is it possible for the bruised bodies and suppressed souls to reconcile with the idea of forced peace?  Grind of the time capable of pulverizing to dust the profound aspirations of the people is absurd, rather a wishful thinking. Why myopic minds fail to realize that Kashmir is too identity conscious? Despite Kashmiri’s habitual vacillations, Kashmir has never compromised with its cultural and political identity.  Kashmir’s political struggle since last seven decades bears witness to this very fact.
Nothing has altered substantially in Kashmir; Srinagar’s estrangement with New Delhi is as deep as it has always been.

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