IN the midst of political cataclysm pervading in Kashmir and perpetuated from over decades there could be a window of optimism through the dark alleys.   The current outbreak of ubiquitous violence and its public response has a singular guise.   Every city and village is involved.   Every day people come out, defy curfew, demonstrate shouting anti-India slogans, facing head on forces that are fully prepared to shoot and kill.  There are no suicide missions declared but the crowds of youth offer their lives as ultimate sacrifice with the clear objective of freedom that drives them.   The present wave of dissent manifests itself with a theme of common purpose that runs through all shades of the resistance movement.  No one makes heroes or promotes a party.   It is slogans of freedom that reverberate in the skies.  The blood of youth including from young women is not allowed to dry before more is strewn in the streets of the beleaguered State.

 Such times of a revolution have come to other nations of the world.  They all came through the worst and emerged as successful nations.  In the past the world took notice of violation of human rights and demanded answers from India.  Now it is India that is compelled to take notice of its own behaviour in Kashmir.  Leader of opposition Mr. Advani demanded a report on Kashmir’s alarming situation.  The optimism emanates from the natural laws that govern and indicated in aphorism of finite time singularity the conflict has assumed virulent proportions and will have to resolve.  There is the historical determination of similar struggles that culminated into free nations.  

 The political developments in the subcontinent and obligations to significant challenges from natural and ephemeral disasters will exhort governments to take Kashmir dispute as a priority to solve.  The international community may seem to be mute observers but behind the scenes pressures are mounting.  In addition there is no strength left in the fetters of oppression until they disintegrate. 

 Notwithstanding the success of political travails, people of Kashmir need to look inwards for hard introspection and find what else needs to be done.   It is at this point that an act of catharsis for some may be an essential prelude to ultimate deliverance.  The nation has to be prepared for a new form of life and living.   Eschew all failings of a consummate society like corruption, deceit and greed.  It will help the whole nation if no one receives or pays or condones bribe.  All people learn to respect all others.  This will result in an implicit egalitarian brotherhood that will be difficult for any aggressive force to penetrate.   I find this action necessary because over the years of incompetent governance people who were born and brought up in turmoil become hardened and reclusive.   They need to open up and understand a segment of their society and in the process the larger picture will emerge. The young men and women prepared like this will cherish the two strands of liberationism, one too raise social consciousness and the second to enlist support for the struggle.

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