Mark has a couple of wonderfully eloquent posts on a ski trip in Kashmir.
“If heaven be on earth then it is here, it is here, it is here in Kashmir.”
It must have sounded like an Orwellian slogan from 1984 to these Indian troops, paid to stand around and look menacing so as to discourage a few other thousand men also standing around not to join an insurgency.
This is yet another casualty of Kashmir – the missed economic opportunity. There are amazing resources in this state, from unique cultural exports like Khawva tea and Cashmere wool, to a new gondala system at the highest ski resort in the world with more terrain than Johnny Mosely could ski in a season. But everyday in Kashmir the political realities make risk-taking more than just an economic activity. Up here in “heaven,” it is instead a way of life.
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