Education, aspiration & 3 de-hyphenations: A changing Kashmir votes and vents

#writingsonthewall
In Kashmir, 3 de-hyphenations stand out: youth have de-hyphenated from radicalism; de-hyphenation with Pakistan; and security agencies’ success in de-hyphenating weapons and people. Everybody wants to crack UPSC, NEET, JEE. They are the Valley’s new future. Watch ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta share his experience of travelling around poll-bound Kashmir. #writingsonthewall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Connect with ThePrint

[VarunStream]

Basically, the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty let this wound fester for 67 years and it took a change in the nation’s thinking to start a process of healing. It’s a long road ahead.

[amitavasaha]

Modi hain toh mumkin hain. The way he has turned the tide in Kashmir, is reason enough to vote for him.

[subbunittala]

370 abrogation ..thanks modiji for thinking of country ...my life time vote to you ~~

[thealienguy]

Narendra Modi's Kashmir policy is the biggest success of his government. Future generations will remember him for this, if not for anything else, which is unlikely due to many other achievements.

[chepaukground]

Was Farooq part of the problem? He is definitely not part of the solution. Much has been achieved in the past 5 years - way to go.

[bindurao]

This sucking up to abdullahs is sickening

[allisavd]

It's heartening to see positive changes in Kashmir ❤

[ANUJKUMAR-onyg]

Kashmir is the biggest successful project of Narendra Modi..

[ChetanKulkarni-ty]

Wow, inspite of taking a huge political risk to further the national interest by abrogating 370 and causing some change for the betterment of the kashmiris, shekar gupta refuses to credit modi n bjp!!!!
Dhanya ho aap

Its been only 5 yesrs since...in due course of time and without the propaganda attempts by the vested interests, surely the things will improve there.

[maximilian]

Guptaji,
I was in Kashmir valley 2 weeks ago and I had similar experience like you. People literally hate Pakistan and Hurriyat.
Unfortunately, Azadi is still their first preference followed by India. Paksiatan is nowhere in the reckoning.
Winning hearts of Kashmiris is a generational project.

[ramasubramanianpr]

A herculean task for peace and reconciliation. It should continue. Keep off the Abdullas and Muftis. New young generation has no baggages of lies. Kashmiris are aspirational. Let the good work continue.

[sumanbiswas]

Shekhar sir, you requested Farooq Abdullah to write a memoir. I wonder he will ever include the failure to prevent Kashmiri pandit's genocide, conniving with separatists, fooling the state population using article 370, etc etc.

[ajaysharma-]

Shekhar smartly devalued the work of modi...still see wanted to defame on not holding panchayat election and not fighting election .., modi knew the candidate life will be in threat...

[itzmontupatel]

I think peace with dignity is necessary
But Really "Why can't center trust us" ask your old leaders how they were silent and even tried to deny or justify what happened in 1990s with pandits (almost all of them where pandits but also other hindus), what ever they say now trusting them would be the biggest mistake

[knm]

You have time to blame Modi for failure to build its cadre but refuse to not even mention that all good happened after Art 370 abrogation

[inspiregrowth]

The same FAROOQ that left no stone unturned to clamor for Napaakstaan is still talking along similar lines. We are listening as well FAROOQ.

[kuldeepkumarbhat]

Dear Mr. Shekhar Gupta Ji,
You are one of the senior most Jiurnalists in India at the National level, one of the most successful ones in the last 50 years and more, one of the most influential ones and perhaps one of the richest ones anongst the lot.

Your fast paced and a very long Kashmir account, though enlightening for non-Kashmiris, is a narrative which a genocide Victim and an exiled Kashmiri can sum up in a two words, Kashmir problem

"CHHI TAAM FAETIS TULL" !

Kashmir has a very old tradition continuing since Mahabharta days ;
of fighting, and quarreling for the whole day..
But at every Sun Set the fighting, quarreling, name calling, exchanging invectives, shouting, screaming, bad gesturing, exchanging abuses, hurling "Kangris at each other etc is stopped and symbolically kept under raps.
" Fot" is deep willow bssket and the fighting is, kept under this willow basket for the night to indulge in normal daily activities from cooking to eating dinner and having a sound sleep with some entertainment thrown in.
But only to restart the fight next afternoon, again symbolically messaging by Overturning the willow basket, the "Fot" !

Kashmir problem, Kashmir issue, Kashmir dispute, Kashmir imbrorglio , Kashmir conflict, Kashmir Flash point, Kashmir Cancer, and MASLAAI KASHMIR
has been kept under that symbolic Maha Bharat times willow basket the "Fot" by willy and cunning Kashmiris sensing the rise of a no onsense Govt at the Centre.

Believe me as a true Kashmiri with a 5000 year old Kashmiri gene, that the day Modi is out from power in New-Delhi and is replaced by a week leader, the "Fot" from the issue would be thrown away to resurrect the issuec and release the genie of Maslaai Kashmir once again..

It is only a Kashmiri who can reveal this real Kashmiriyat to you, as no Dhoti Prashad,
an expert, a strategist, an academic, a leader, a cleric, a sage, a guru or a Sadh Guru,
From any corner of the continental sized country, Bharat, can reveal it to you ever.

Mata Sharika bless you..

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
"

[maheshjambardi]

What about the Hindus who were raped murdered and driven out of the valley? Are Muslim Kashmiri’s ready to welcome them back and restore their properties to their rightful Hindu owners from those who have stolen them?
There is no normalcy or justice until that is rectified.

[parvadhami]

Article 370 was put on a pedestal on the same level as that of a Holy Book, unquestionable and uncompromising.
Glad that Modi Govt threw it into oblivion.

[JovialJinx]

This made me so hopeful and happy. Thank you, Shekhar Sahab.