I repeat: I have never toed the official Indian line. I would not have written what I did unless I firmly believed in it.
Indian Kashmir is a pathological obsession with Pakistanis; it is just that it is saddening to see you too have fallen prey to this national obsession. I am far from the position that all is being done well there, but also have the live relationship with people from there that allows me to challenge the more widely-sweeping statements that are made from time to time.
On Kashmir, you sure do toe the Indian official line, on other matters, maybe you don't
And there is nothing as
Indian Kashmir ... It's Indian Occupied Kashmir.
We have cultural, religious, lingual, geographical, social and blood bonds with Kashmiris ... It's you guys who have a pathological obsession with Kashmir (and Pakistan) despite not having anything in common with the people of the valley.
Kashmiris don't want to identify themselves as Indians. They have a right to self-determination fully protected under UN Resolutions and International law. You cannot take away from them what is
legitimately theirs. What most of the Indians fail to realize is that forcing people to be a part of your "nation" against their will is a mockery of the idea of Nation.
As for your live relations in Kashmir, you yourself have said that you avoid discussing controversial topics with those Kashmiri friends who support Azadi, so, your argument falls flat.
And as for you denying civilian killings, mass rape and other human rights violations by IA in Occupied Kashmir, there are hundreds of reports by neutral reputed international as well as local Kashmiri organizations out there detailing those atrocities, which I will post shortly. You, of course, are free to continue living in your
denial, distortion and delusion.