Is anyone talking about people ?
MPRESSIONS BY UDAY SHANKER,
Greater Kashmir, August 3, 2010
Every one in New Delhi seems to be taking stock of Kashmir situation. Every one seems to be concerned over the deteriorating situation in Kashmir. Every one is mourning the mounting loss of human lives. Every one is giving his own solution to the problem. But no one is talking about the people.
Why? One may ask. There is an undying habit of looking at the situation from incident to incident basis, from one enclave to another basis, from individual to individual basis, as if people have already been rendered irrelevant. Experimenting is the art that Delhi has perfected so far, despite the fact that all these hit and trial methods have not shown any way forward so far. It’s latest experiment of trying a young man has failed, given the situation that has surfaced in the Valley.
Delhi doesn’t seemed to have learnt any lessons. It is still focused on peripheral issues, with an unshaken focus on fire fighting measures. The tragedy is that if Delhi is not getting a sense as what to do in this situation, much of the fault lies with the leadership of Kashmir, if at all it deserves to be called a leadership. The new generation leader Omar Abdullah for months kept on harping that there was no problem. He was asking where is the problem? He did not see any problem until the youth started dying on the streets of Kashmir, until the people were out on streets in thousands, until the whole Valley seemed to be in flames.
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