Kr Swarn Kishore

There is a pact of omertà between all the civil servants that every one of their species has to protect the indigenous of the civil servant community.

Killing of around 300 and exodus of more than half a million Kashmiri Hindus took place in the campaign of ethnic wiping of Kashmiri Hindus from the soil of Kashmir, one of the largest exoduses of the century and almost doubles the number when compared to the exodus of Jews from Germany and Austria.

Few days ago, it took me even less than 7 hours from Jammu to reach Srinagar but this time it was with three toll plazas, enormous dust and immense fear of a sliding shooting stone. River Chenab was never dirtier, the adjoining hills were never so very torn, leave aside the beauty.

if we are to zero in on one reason behind this perpetual alienation, it is the confused leadership which specialises in subterfuge, Kashmir has received till date.