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12 July 03 to July 09 2017 : Weekly News Magazine messenger

FACE

Salt away a Generation

For months together now, we are normal and its dispersal becomes a Kashmir has already buried one Kashmir is reminiscent of early
1990s. M obs – angry a nd
being c ontinuously t old t hat Kashmir wide phenomenon and complete generation. The economy
Kashmir’s trouble has a territory killings a routine, it has started was destroyed, the social fabric surcharged – coming out of every
and a peculiar commerce many people thinking – is our next mutilated and almost half nook and corner, shouting slogans
attached to it. A few belts in the old generation safe? a million people were rendered and clashing with the cops. Police
city falling under five police stations Since 1988, when the militancy destitute, directly and indirectly. and paramilitary raiding houses and
gushed out of the barrels of the
and a number of school-drop outs The destruction completed a full detaining people. Schools locked,
living in congested shanties. Klashinkovs, barely a year after a circle and a new globally situation hotels empty, businesses jammed
As brick-batting becomes a new botched up election, clipped the role of non-st ate and roads deserted.
combatants. I t h elped J &K Terror and torture, strike and
breathe easy for some time. protests, curfews and restrictions –
Efforts should have been there to same old story. As if history is
build on the new scenario by repeating itself, the system has
helping society to come out of detained almost anybody with
decades of suffocation, talk and some social accountability. This
be heard. Rebuilding the happened in 1989 as well during
infrastructure and rehabilitating militancy’s amorphous days.
the wounded psyche should have A government that seeks and
been the priority. The needs massive autonomy to
society deserved some space to manage the affairs of the state has
speak up. To tell the travails and gone powerless. But It has
tragedies that it has underwent empowered its appendages to a
throughout the last two decades level where seems to have lost
in particular. control over them.Politics seems to
become a n extension o f the
But Kashmir’s democracy seems
to have loaded the dice against security establishment.
the people. Those holding power Kashmir is not on the edge, it is on
want to induce the sense of the brink of a disaster. The situation
defeat in the society so that it is ripe for another generation to get
helps their sense of victory. But as decimated. The onus lies on the
the people feel pushed to the wall, people who think the best of their
they react. Today’s situation in dynamism is yet to be seen!