Way forward in Kashmir | The Indian Express

Way forward in Kashmir | The Indian Express

Written by Rajmohan Gandhi |Updated: June 10, 2019 12:11:35 am

The writer is research professor at Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Way forward in Kashmir

Actions intended to change the state’s status and demographics will intensify alienation

Bombs, big or small, will not bring progress on Kashmir. Nor will changes in the Constitution. (Representational)

With elections behind us, and Narendra Modi armed with a comfortable majority for five more years, difficult national questions should be looked at. One of the hardest — as hard as creating millions of jobs, or restoring life to rural India, or protecting vulnerable children, women and men across the land — is the situation in Kashmir.