Like NSA Ajit Doval ji, I hope to roam & travel freely without fear in Kashmir. I'd bow before the mighty & pristine Himalayas, admire the numerous gardens of Mughals, and follow the route charted by the legendary Adi Shankaracharya all the while traversing through the simple dargahs, mosques of Kashmir & the great Buddhist monastries of Ladakh.
I'd dearly love to see a day when insurgency becomes a thing of past, when all the slogan-shouting & stone-pelting anger melts into an intellectual debate - about the development of Kashmir as a part of India, or remembering the great historical figures of Kashmir - it's benevolent rulers of the past like 'BudShah' Sultan Zainualabidan, or the return & rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits or unlocking the tourism potential with no impact on beautiful kashmiri ecology or heritage.
I'd like to see a day when I could sing the telugu poem ''అటఁ జని కాంచె భూమిసురుఁ డంబర చుంబి శిరస్సర్ఝజరీ" as visualised by Allasani Peddanna's hero Pravarakhya, gazing upon the beauty of Himalayas in Kashmir! One day in the near future, I'd be happily comparing our spicy Mango pickle 'Avakaya' with the Kashmiri Apple Pickle!
It's a dream in the past, now it's a wish of the present but in the near future, who knows...
