What is the remedy?

Gupta pleads that India is not Israel and adoption of same strategy in Kashmir could prove suicidal

With reference to Shekhar Gupta’s timely and lively write-up “No, we haven’t lost Kashmir” (April 22), the author seems justified in observing that “nobody can take our territory militarily but we can still lose the people if we keep militarising our view of Kashmiri anger” as he begins with a big question mark reading “Have we (India) lost Kashmir?” and then gives a comforting reply with “No”. However, he also extensively quotes the earlier war-front developments of 1947 and 1965 which were effectively handled by the Indian people with the active assistance of Kashmiris. One appreciates his deep concern about