Beyond Waiting

R S Reen

rsinghreen@gmail.com

A Zoom call, initiated by a group of Kashmiri Pandit (KP) thinkers in the USA, was meant to be a focused discussion on the “Kashmir Problem.” For them, the problem was a litany of painful, immediate concerns: the lack of prosecutions for past crimes, the haunting reality of migration, and the deep-seated fear that keeps the old and the new generations away. In their minds, the solution is singular and simple: wait. Wait for peace, wait for security to become perfect, wait for the valley to become the Kashmir of 1989, so they can return and live the life they lost.

As I listened, my mind drifted. It drifted to 1984, when thousands of Sikhs were butchered in the streets of Delhi. Forty-two years have passed. Delhi has moved on, built a new sky

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