there will be peace in Kashmir.

Unfortunately, the very institutions that profess this belief are the ones blocking its realisation. Consider the recent prime ministerial visit to the state. Vajpayee went, he saw, he wished to conquer the media. He spoke about unemployment, and promised 1 lakh jobs. But he never said: there will be peace in Kashmir.

He could not have. The Indian state's politics is a very narrow one: it merely seeks to reproduce itself in its gargantuan entirety. It forgets that the way out of exhaustion