As I pose this question, I feel despair. As a kid I was taught to believe that Pakistan was the perpetrator and everybody in Kashmir (if given a chance by Pakistan!) will choose to live with India. It was only when I was older that I realized the situation is far from that. There is a sizeable population in Kashmir that wants to be independent rather than join India. Well, thats the truth you like to believe it or not. So, now what should India do? Well, nothing it does will ever be enough. But inaction (as we see in the current crisis) is not helping either. I wish there were a magic solution to this problem!
Salil Tripathi has a very illuminating post in his livemint column here.
Some excerpts
Many Kashmiris do seek a different freedom—neither this, nor that; neither India, nor Pakistan; or, as Mercutio says in Romeo and Juliet: “A plague a’both your houses!” A recent report of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, drawn from surveys of Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control, shows, with hard numbers, that Kashmiris want to control their own destiny. But some loud voices see being with Pakistan as azadi. They want to replace one occupying power with another.
Do read the entire post!
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