The Talk
A S Dulat’s best-selling book, ‘Kashmir, The Vajpayee Years’ was published in 2014. In this talk, Dulat covered all the interesting things he talked of in the book and took it beyond till today.
To understand Kashmir and its issues, there is no better authority than A S Dulat.
About the book:
Srinagar in the winter of 1989 was an eerie ghost town witnessing the beginnings of a war dance. The dam burst the night boys from the separatist JKLF group were freed in exchange for the release of Rubaiya Sayeed, the Union home minister’s daughter. As Farooq Abdullah had predicted, the government’s caving in emboldened many Kashmiris into thinking that azaadi was possible. ‘The price we will have to pay’ were Farooq’s prophetic words. Killings were almost a daily occurrence. Bomb explosions and firings occurr