e run-up to the Independence Day was as usual tense in Kashmir. As the day began drawing nearer, security restrictions increased. Besides highways, security checks were set up along the roads deep into the interiors of both urban and rural Kashmir, creating a deep sense of tension and foreboding in the air. But all this heaviness largely eased off as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked of embracing Kashmiris in his I-Day speech. “Na goli se, na gaali se, Kashmir ki samasya suljhegi gale lagaane se (Kashmir’s problems can be…
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