FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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H
aving edited india today for 40 years, the one axiom about history that
rings truest for me is that it keeps repeating itself. Nothing reflects
this more than our coverage of Kashmir, as you can see from the covers displayed above. Kashmir has been like a gaping wound. It has bled,
it has been bandaged, only to bleed again. We have put Kashmir on the
cover 26 times—more than any other issue. There have been covers about
despair, optimism and some that reflected utter dejection. More than 44,000
lives have been lost in the Valley since 1988, and stories of mass migration,
allegations of forced occupation and a saga of cross-border infiltration continue unabated. The brightest hope for Kashmir is that a Hindu right-wing
party that rules the country, the BJP, and a Muslim soft separatist party
that has roots in the Valley, the PDP, are in an unlikely partnership. Our
cover story this week analyses why so much has gone wrong and what can
be done to fix it. This golden opportunity to find a cure must not be squandered. I hope our next cover on Kashmir will be a happier one!
(Aroon Purie)