the kashmir issue

Ofcourse am not an expert on Kashmir though it is fashionable to be one. Kashmir experts which come dime a dozen ( as opposed to 'Kashmiri expterts' which also come dime a dozen) will always tell you it is a complex problem. Be it politicians from India and Pakistan, ordinary Kashmiris or international experts.
But one thing which should be clear to the Indian government with this latest episode of rebellion by the Kashmiri youth is that India has lost the propoganda or some may call it the ideological war in Kashmir. The government over the years has failed to sell the idea of Indian state to the Kashmiris.
It has failed to establish in them the need for an Indian identity along with their Kashmiri one. And since this is the scenario now, almost nothing can be done to win them over now as we have lost an entire generation who would be in the helm for the next at least 50 years.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talks about the need for jobs and education and schemes, I think it is much beyond all that now. Young Kashmiris should have been told how going with Pakistan would make them end up like Pakistan. How the hijab was against their culture also and how 'azadi' will make them be devoured by the powerful neighbours like Russia and China.
They needed to be told that how can Pakistan which is a failed state itself make them an independent state. Instead, the Indian government used the language of guns which made youth rebel more.
We all know caning makes the child alienated and this applies to the states also. And somehow this is the first time that the rest of the country has come to know the sentiments of the Kashmiris. Maybe media is more powerful now.
But this is a propaganda war which the Islamists have won and India has lost.