It’s time for deep reflection for Jammu and Kashmir as we are passing through April, the month that proved cruellest for the region last year. The Pahalgam incident shattered  dreams and our capacity to view things in a positive fashion to which we were attuned before April 22, 2025 happened. The date changed the destiny that we were engaged in an era  which signalled hope and promise after a long spell of dark ages. Today, it is time to view April from real spring time prism.

A year later, it is time for us  not to go in for clichés, and reflect in  typical manner lessons learnt and unlearnt by the gory episode that made the world  to look at Kashmir through a different prism. A fair analysis would tell us that Pahalgam incident  continues to haunt  and hurt us, as all our security and tourism narrative is focused on what happened last year. The glaring fact is that Pahalgam has not found its closure though all the perpetrators have been eliminated and tourists have started returning to Pahalgam and the rest of the Valley in good numbers.

Kashmir and its ethos of co-existence and hospitality were battered by multiple storms .Huge outpour of anger and protestations against the incident  and terrorism at large  did not convince the people outside of complete innocence of Kashmir. They argued that since it happened in Kashmir and the terrorists  could get shelter before and after the ghastly incident, it could not have been........

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