Valiant_Soul
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That is the $64million question. I'd be sitting in tomorrow's CCS meeting if I knew
But I think approaching the talks with the drop of preconditions attached might be a start. Go to Srinagar and don't do things at arms length. Request a meeting with all political leaders, but mainly the separatists.
It'd be a great way to say for MMS or anyone from the Cabinet 'I came all the way to Srinagar to hold talks, informal and with no set agenda, I came to listen, to express my sorrow and regret at the loss of life'.
These shouldn't be empty words of course, but India isn't stupid to realise that the people within the Valley are slipping away at a much greater rate than ever before.
I'm staggered that no-one from the Centre has taken the initiative and headed up to Kashmir to be there in person, do their best to have talks. Just letting this run and run, snowball out of control has got us to
You should know what happened to Omar Abdullah when he went to express his grief in a hospital. Ministers cannot just storm into their place, unless they express their desire to come to the table.
Gestures, of the kind you suggest, are no longer adequate, in fact they never were. For the talks to be held, an agenda is previously decided, and the GOI can never include the subject of Kashmir independence from India and hence no such talks can take place.
It is all a matter of who will blink first. And we know that the government has all the means and justifications to hold to its stand.