This book is about Kashmir. Not Kashmir, the ‘paradise on earth’. But Kashmir which, over the past five decades, has earned many new, but unsavoury, sobriquets for itself, like, Conflict, Dispute, Strife, Problem, Tangle, Issue, Discord, Imbroglio, questions, and Bone of Contention. Today mere mention of Kashmir, anywhere in the world, brings up in one’s mind the images of terrorism, violence, blasts, suicide attacks, massacres of innocent people, armed ...