' But a dispassionate analysis is important also for the Kashmiri youth, whether it turns out that it is by default or by design that the government is pushing them towards picking up the gun. The consequences would be disastrous in either case. The gun has been tried, tested and known to have not only failed but having brought massive miseries. Besides, history bears testimony to the fact that it is never ever a solution. The highly politically aware youth today are at crossroads. They have tried peaceful protests, stone pelting and hartals and things have only changed from bad to worse. In their search for strategies, many of them wearied by the repressive realms they find themselves in find gun as the only way forward, hardly realising that this mirage would only invite unimaginable miseries. They should not allow dismay to suck them into a morass of cynicism and irrationality. Rather they need to channelise this anger into peaceful strategies that haven’t been tried before '
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:25:13 +0000
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