Gandhi professed "satyagraha" and kashmir is fighting its war with stones. For the first time in last 10 years Srinagar saw Army march to enforce curfew. It blows all the claims by the state and center that they have made any progress on Kashmir. The whole movement conjured when some stone pelting kids, died in retaliation bullets of CRPF. The movement metamorphosed to a violent turn when a congregation of organized youth started throwing stones at security forces in towns of J&K. This turned CRPF to fire rubber bullets, which inadvertently hit a kid's head leading him to succumb to death.
Separatist saw it a good chance to revive pandemonium in valley that can infuriate mob. The abutment came in the form of money by Dubai based well wishers of Kashmir, to raise an army of stone pelting kids. All this time the government of India was taking a deep nap and the nation was taking a chill pill about Kashmir. In one of the recent reports, Kashmir youths were shown shouting slogans about Azadi and go back India and reactions were only noted by a section of free and fair Indian media.
There are various faces to this problem and the credit goes to the governments ruling in kashmir and India who made kashmir a multidimensional problem. One section of Kashmir wants independence while other section wants more autonomy near to independence. Indian state neither favors independence of Kashmir nor it wants to treat Kashmir as special state because it will encourge other states in India to break free on similar lines. Also there is a clear distinction between ideologies of people in Jammu and that in Kashmir. Jammu and Leh favors India and believes in Indian state while it is antithetical for junta dwelling in valley. Furthermore, Indian approach of tackling this issue was always quick fix remedy to restore peace using force. This kind of fixing violence by using army and never solving the core issues, are the reasons why the problem aggrandized to a limit of no solution. Another reason for valley never witnessing peace is, Pakistan which continuously foments terror and supply money to keep the heat burning.
To box this problem integrate Kashmir with rest of India. This can be done by creating an ambiance for kashmirees to migrate to peaceful places if they wish to make living. Also, removing a legislation, which prohibits Indians to migrate to Kashmir and buy property to invest can be another way of unifying the state with union.On other fronts, big campuses of learning, like IIT and AIMS, should be built. Industries as fashion designing and tourism must be encouraged. Bridging the whole region by buses, trains and flights and create jobs in tourism, sports, agriculture and technology will add to the whole setup.
On security front, create self help groups which bulwark the border town to make sure infiltration is checked. Assign every kashmiree a UID (unified identity like ssn) which makes them Indian citizen. Let army guard Kashmir on borders but let police look at law and order in towns. Separatist should be dealt very strongly as they are not Gandhian but moderate terrorist. Let them either be mainstream politicians or should be tried in courts for instigating violence with intent of killing innocent people. Media should be advised not to sell reports in ways that can infuriate mobs and cause loss of life. Last but not the least whole India should protest killing of any sort by forces in valley.
