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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.