The puzzle called Kashmir

Kashmir, to me, is a puzzle which gets more convoluted with each passing day as the post 1989 generations come of age and struggle to find their feet within this country and the world on the whole. And I am not distinguishing on the basis of religion. This generation, which seems to have grown mostly outside Kashmir, feels a need to know what its responsibilities are and how much freedom it has to follow their dreams. Kashmiris are naturally emotional people and here you live out of a place where you live each day surrounded with more news of death than life. It could either numb you towards the simple joys of life or make you drastically fearless. Both are not ‘normal’ circumstances.