What if?

Sheikh Abdullah's grandson evaluates two recent volumes on Kashmir and finds them well-researched and well-written even if he differs with their objectivity .

"Coming back to the what-if questions that keep echoing in my head and without going back too far—what if the Centre had not engineered the fall of the National Conference government in 1984? What if the Rajiv-Farooq accord had not taken place? What if there were no reported electoral malpractices in the 1987 elections? What if militants had not been released in exchange for Rubaiya Sayeed? The list goes on and on. As I said, hindsight is such a wonderful thing.... Knowing what I do now, I can easily say that the accord shouldn’t have been signed. Or that the terrorists shouldn’t have been released. Or that more care should have been taken to address people’s concerns about governance.But no matter how many times I ask myself ‘what if?’ it doesn’t change the fact that what is done is done. We can’t turn back the clock."

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