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J&K elections

The article “For secessionists, humiliation follows hubris” (Dec. 23) has accurately described the position in which separatist leaders of Jammu and Kashmir find themselves after the successful conduct of six phases of the seven-phase elections to the Assembly.

Although it would be wrong to say that the Kashmir issue is non-existent, it would be equally incorrect to assume that an average Kashmiri buys the arguments of the so-called freedom fighters. On the contrary, a common Kashmiri aspires to be a Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Shah Rukh Khan or Ratan Tata. The reference to the specific social classes shows the depth of the author’s knowledge of the issue which many intellectuals portray as a fight for independence in the Kashmir Valley.

Pranav Mahajan,

Jammu

Saren Jose,

New Delhi

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