Existing nations preserve a crucial rapport with their history. They derive dynamism from its lighter phases to assemble their present and reinvent their potential. They circumvent difficulties by learning from its blunders. Time for them is an unrefined unanimity where past,
present and future are centrally affected by one another.
Those acquainted with both the current situation in Kashmir and its history may recognize that, as misfortune would have it, Kashmiris have been isolated from their past. Kashmir ’s history boasts fame and fruitfulness, and thus the Kashmiris have sound reason to be proud. Not only did Kashmiris make innovative and important contributions to the arts, but for centuries they preserved their own independence and ruled over vast expanses of Asia . So pathetically despondent is Kashmir at the moment that these details appear to be the fabrications of a fantasy.
It is these very achievements, however, from which Kashmiris should extract motivation and support to carry out a systematic and continuous struggle against oppression. History is on the side of the Kashmiri people because their struggle is one against injustice. Should this universal reality need evidence, the present-day conditions of Iraq Chechnya Palestine Afghanistan
