LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE, HAD I BEEN A KASHMIRI WHO IS FULLY CONVINCED WITH MY CAUSE AND PERSONALLY CONVINCED THAT MILLITANCY HAS COME TO AN END.
I KNOW KASHMIR DOES NOT HAVE DEARTH OF MONEY AND MONEY CAN BE A GREAT INSTRUMENT IN SOLVING THE PROBLEM
HAD I BEEN IN KASHMIR I WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THESE STEPS-
FIRST PHASE- CONFIDENCE BUILDING
1) I WOULD HAVE FORMED A KASHMIR SOCIETY. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DEMOCRATIC PROCESS PARALLEL TO THE MAINSTREAM GOVERNMENT, NOT CHALLENGING IT ONLY HELPING IT.
2) THE SOCIETY WOULD HAVE FIRST RACHED OUT TO NOOK AND CORNER OF THE VALLEY.
3) THIS REACH WOULD BE TO CONVINCE THE PEOPLE OF THE VALLEY THAT GUN IS NOT A SOLUTION.
4) THIS SOCIETY WOULD HAVE MADE AN OPEN DECLARATION TO THE PEOPLE TO GIVE UP MILLITANCY.
5) THE SOCIETY WOULD HELP SECURITY FORCES TO TRACK DOWN MILLITANTS WHO ARE STILL NOT READY TO GIVE UP GUNS.
6) THIS WOULD BE A CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASUER.
SECOND PHASE- IDEA PROPAGATION
6) I WOULD HAVE REACHED OUT TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN KASHMIR AND DISCUSSED THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM AND NATION THERE.LATER I WOULD ALSO ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR VIEWS IN SUPPORT AND AGAINST KASHMIR'S AZADI.
*7) I WOULD NOT HAVE MOTIVATED STUDENTS TOWARDS AZADI BECAUSE THE MOMENT YOU START DOING THIS,THE GOVT WOULD BAN SUCH AN ORGANISATION AS THE ORGANISATION WOULD BE INDULGING IN ANTI NATIONAL ACTIVITY OF PROPOGATING SECESSIONIST THOUGHT. I WOULD HAVE ONLY DISCUSSED WHAT AZADI AND COUNTRY MEANT FOR THEM.BUT, I WOULD HAVE ALWAYS KEPT KASHMIR'S AZADI AS MY TOP AGENDA AND ASK PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR VIEWS.
8) ASKING THE VIEW WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THAT WOULD ONLY TELL ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF THOUGHT.
9) THEN I WOULD HAVE MOVED OUT TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN REST OF INDIA WHERE I WOULD HAVE DISCUSSED THE SAME.
10) I WOULD HAVE TRIED TO IMPROVE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN DISCUSSION ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
11) FOR INCREASING THE INTEREST,I WOULD HAVE PUT DEDICATED WELL PAID PEOPLE FOR THE JOB WHO WOULD KEEP THE MOVEMENT GOING BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE BECOME THEIR JOB.
12) IF YOU FOUND OUT THAT STUDENTS WERE NOT INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING,THEN INFUSE INTEREST BY INTRODUCING CASH INCENTIVES FOR PARTICIPATION.
13) I WOULD HAVE BROUGHT PEOPLE FROM REST OF THE COUNTRY TO KASHMIR AND KASHMIRIS TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE.
14) I WOULD HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT PEOPLE TO PEOPLE CONTACT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
15) THIS WOULD NOT BEEN AN ACTIVITY FOR A FEW MONTHS BUT MIGHT TAKE YEARS.
16) BUT, AT THE END,EITHER THE KASHMIRIS WOULD AGREE THAT THEIR CAUSE IS USELESS OR THE REST OF INDIA WOULD HAVE TO ACCEPT THE KASHMIR CAUSE.
AFTER ALL, HUMANS LIVE ON BOTH SIDES!
AN AMICABLE PEACEFUL SOLUTION COULD HAVE ARRIVED AT.MONEY (VERY IMPORTANT INSTRUMENT FOR SUCH PROJECTS) SPENT HERE WOULD BE WORTH. EVEN IF SOME PEOPLE MAKE MONEY THIS WAY IT WOULD BE JUSTIFIED.
BY THIS KASHMIR WILL NOT LOSE LIVES, EDUCATION AND MONEY. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IS IN NO WAY EXPLOITING KASHMIR ECONOMICALLY. BY THIS PROCESS GOI CAN EVEN BE ASKED TO INVEST MORE MONEY TO MAKE GOOD THE LOSS OF 20 YEARS.
THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT START SUCH AN INITIATIVE BECAUSE,IT DOES NOT BELIEVE IN SECESSION. BUT,IT WILL ALSO NOT STOP SUCH AN INITIATIVE AS ITS PURELY DEMOCRATIC AND DOES NOT PROFESS SECESSION.
BY THIS WE CAN AT LEAST HAVE SOME SOLUTION.
FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT ALL THAT IS WRITTEN ABOVE IS CRAP AND IS THE PRODUCT OF AN INCOMETENT AND IMPRACTICAL BRAIN-->EITHER THEY DO NOT PROPERLY UNDERSTAND INDIAN DEMOCRACY OR ARE AFRAID THAT THE WEAK CAUSE WOULD BE EXPOSED.
ALSO, IF MOST PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE IN SUCH WAYS THEN WE ARE IN FOR SOME SERIOUS TROUBLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!
*MOST IMPORTANT POINT
