Of Kashmir, Killing Spree and Insensitive Governance
A spate of recent reprehensible killing of innocents in Srinagar surprised none, not even the State Administration. Unfortunately for the grieving families, the State stood by shamelessly though forewarned through numerous written communications. After the unfortunate blood spilt on roads, the Government woke up to these warnings. It is the bureaucrats' writ that runs the administration reducing the Lieutenant Governor to a titular head. Ever since his investiture in the seat of power, the LG was not allowed to meet a delegation of local Kashmiri Pandits (KP). They wished to apprise His Excellency precisely about the realities that unfolded to tragic consequences now. Alas! The bureaucrats always stood in the way. India can't afford a repeat of the 1990s in the Valley. Rhetorically, the then squabbling central government, supported by the pa...