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While along the morning walk strips or at tea stalls, the scene in the City of Temples of is these days different and interesting. Few months back none could have imagined the intermixing of languages, cultures and ideas one can see today. It is just the routine returned to normal after surviving a threat of the lampoons, communalists and radicals. Jammu And Kashmir State is comprised of three distinct regions and there is no future of the state without the one. Had there been the possibility of having scheme of things without one or the other region this would have been done long back. Some narrow minded and shortsighted people have often questioned the co-existence of three regions as they see nothing common in them. They forget that even in the families no persons think exactly the same but that is not the reason for not having a family structure at all. The three regions of this state –Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh –have withstood all tests of time in history spanning over centuries. There was gory bloodbath and communal flare up in the transition of 1947 and even after that many such incidents happened which threatened the regional integrity. Unfortunately, the summers of last year, it was perhaps for the first time that the gaps between two of the three regions –Kashmir and Jammu –appeared far and wide. The two months that the agitation in both regions on Amarnath land transfer issue stretched on brought Jammu and Kashmir closer to a disaster as it threatened regional integrity and communal harmony. That Kashmir Valley is almost completely Muslim in composition and Jammu is a Hindu majority nearly turned the regional tension into a religious tension. As the agitation gained ground on both sides, it was given to understand to the silent majority that Jammuites will never again go to Kashmir and Kashmiris will never visit Jammu and the Hindus will never have anything to do with Muslims and the vice versa. After the agitation ended, there was caution but not without optimism. After the entire majority on either side was not a part of this communal design. Then came the Darbar Move and many myths broke down. The biennial move of the seat of power between Jammu and Srinagar has been into practice since late 1980s and has since then been criticized by many as a wasteful, extravagant and inconvenient exercise. There have been a couple of attempts in past few years to stall this exercise. Today, when things come normal between regions and communities after the bitter experience of Amarnath land row, the credit arguable goes to the process Darbar Move. A story appearing in this newspaper’s Tuesday’s issue comes as a timely and wonderful commentary and investigations into the public psyche which refuses to be communal or parochial on regional lines. The reporter has gathered insight from the people who lived over the decades with mutually shared heritage of regional and cultural affection. All such processes should be promoted and encouraged which bring people closer to each other and which blur the regional identities allowing the common identity of love and affection to prevail.
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