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It is time the political masters dropped the term “negotiated settlement” from their cherished lexicon and started thinking of fighting fire with fire if Kashmir is to remain an integral part of India.

The experience around the world in any civilian uprising with ethnic, communal or regional overtones is that, very often the opposition has been quelled with an iron hand, sometimes with the unfortunate but inevitable fallout of human rights violations.

And that, generally, democracy in a crisis-stricken region has always encouraged the agitating groups to bully the state into giving into their demands.

But countries have learned their own ways to deal with the alienators who disturb the ethos of the nation they live in.

S. Saroj Kumar e-mail

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