Kashmir may no longer be a bilateral issue but it is a global concern | The Indian Express

Kashmir may no longer be a bilateral issue but it is a global concern | The Indian Express

Written by Meghnad Desai |Updated: September 8, 2019 10:46:21 am

Meghnad Desai loves to cook, watch and write about old Bollywood movies and shuttles between London, Delhi and Goa. He pursues controversies on economics, history and anything else which catches his attention. He is also a British parliamentarian sitting in the House of Lords. He has written over 25 books, over 200 articles in learned journals and hundreds of newspaper columns in UK and India.

Kashmir may no longer be a bilateral issue but it is a global concern

The anger in Kashmir Valley has a long history. To expect it to die due to a constitutional change would be a delusion. It would require concrete policy changes in economic and social sectors to heal the wounds of the past 65 years.

Integration of the region into India should prove the key to bringing the standard and quality of living in J&K rapidly up to the level in rest of India in terms of income as well as human development, especially for women. (File)

I was 13 at the time. In our poky sarkari flat in Bombay, my father was having a furious, noisy argument with my two maternal uncles. The neighbours were worried. They thought it was a property quarrel which would end up in violence.