Kashmir's troubled future

'Kashmir is a live political issue in India in a way that it never has been before', says the author

In the aftermath of the bloodiest attack in the Valley’s history, there are several points that could be made about what it implies for the future. None of them are anything other than deeply disturbing. 

The first is that there has been a steady increase in violence in the Valley since 2014. This has multiple reasons, but the fact that New Delhi has squandered the gains from the 10 years of relative quiet prior to 2014 is perhaps the biggest. Rather than trying to integrate more Kashmiris into the mainstream in the years since then, the central government has turned