Barkha Dutt's open letter to Chetan Bhagat
April 19, 2016 17:51
My dear Chetan,
Your open letter to Kashmiri youth - we exchanged only a few brief notes on Twitter - encourages me to write one back to you. Let's first list the stuff we broadly agree on.
You're absolutely right that the army has a massively difficult and thankless job fighting a battle not of its choosing or making, especially when any solution must be political and not militaristic. I have no disagreement with your argument that Pakistan is hardly the ideal alternative as an imagined homeland, especially given its rising extremism and the sheer fragility of its democratic process. And there can be no two views on the return of Kashmiri Pandits to a land from which they were forced into exodus."
Read the full letter here.
Your open letter to Kashmiri youth - we exchanged only a few brief notes on Twitter - encourages me to write one back to you. Let's first list the stuff we broadly agree on.
You're absolutely right that the army has a massively difficult and thankless job fighting a battle not of its choosing or making, especially when any solution must be political and not militaristic. I have no disagreement with your argument that Pakistan is hardly the ideal alternative as an imagined homeland, especially given its rising extremism and the sheer fragility of its democratic process. And there can be no two views on the return of Kashmiri Pandits to a land from which they were forced into exodus."
Read the full letter here.
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