BUILD WHERE THEY BURN THESE FAIREST FLOWERS OF THE VALLEY

The average culture of a nation must rise through education before it is able to protect its interests in an evolving world. Education must, therefore, be the top priority of our government and the children of Kashmir must not be allowed to fall victim to the jihadist agenda of indoctrination in madrasas. Schools must be quickly built for them and, that too, in an integrated way and not in any haphazard manner as they now obtain. There must be integrated school campuses where thousands of children will be able to study together without fear of terrorist attack or vandalization, such must be the security cover of these premier academic institutions. A generation of well-educated citizenry will change the intellectual landscape of Kashmir and take power away from the perfidious wielders of such at present to build a Kashmir which will be well-integrated in the body politic of the nation and will serve to strengthen the motherland rather than weaken it through mindless militancy.

The Indian Government has a huge task at hand to look after the education of the children of Kashmir so that they flower into the most beautiful blossoms of the motherland rather than into misguided militants who murder their essential humanity under madrasa indoctrination. 'Send the children to schools, not merely to madrasas' must be the clarion call of the government and it should back it up by building effective academic infrastructure for the benighted province. The children of Kashmir are our fairest flowers in bud and need this support to blossom from the bud-state into the springtime of fragrant efflorescence.

Imagine a Kashmir without militancy, peaceful and tranquil, full of the ethereal beauty that surrounds it whose parallel may not be found on this earth, about which has been said, ''Gar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast" which translates to "If there be a heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here." Will such a day come? Sure, it will and we shall celebrate together the resurrection of this paradise on planet earth, the whole of humanity will. Kashmir, the defence of India from foreign forces across the Himalayas, Kashmir, the seat of Lord Amarnath, Kashmir, our kith and kin, in blood-bond with the rest of India, may Kashmir awake to its sense of belonging to the nation and seek its rightful place in it, never an alien but ever in the sanctum sanctorum of its being! Jai Hind!