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What is going on in Kashmir?

  After being asked the above   question fourth time in my office lift, I have finally sat down to pen my thoughts. Firstly, to all dedicated citizens of India, I will recommend that one should neither try to understand Kashmir conundrum nor try to speculate over it. Because no good has come to any one with their association with Kashmir. The roots of this problem are too deep for anyone to spend time and understand it properly and the other issue is “Kashmiris”. Kashmir and Kashmiris have a different culture, a different language and a very different outlook, which you may point out is the case with every-other state. But what you forget is there are other facets of Kashmiryat too. One, the closeness to Pakistan and another Islam. This makes a seemingly simple linear equation into a full-fledged lagrange theorem that too in Urdu, so good luck to you. In the meanwhile, if you have other important things to do, such as buying the correct liquid detergent for your washin