Quotes About Kashmir

Those eyes that stared at us for one and a half hours – they were forgiving eyes, understanding eyes. We Kashmiris do not need to speak to each other any more in order to understand each other. We do terrible things to each other, we wound and betray and kill each other, but we understand each other.

I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there's lots to write about. That can't be done in Kashmir. It's not sophisticated, what happens here. There's too much blood for good literature. Q1: Why is it not sophisticated? Q2: What is the acceptable amount of blood for good literature?

There was no tour guide on hand to tell her that in Kashmir nightmares were promiscuous. That they were unfaithful to their owners, they cartwheeled wantonly into other people's dreams, they acknowledged no precincts, they were the greatest ambush artists of all. No fortification, no fence-building could keep them in check. In Kashmir the only thing to do with nightmares was to embrace them like old friends and manage them like old enemies.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

For the Modi government, the calls for a 'Naya Kashmir' has paradoxically led them right back to old established political parties after a failed experiment at propping up an 'alternative' regime in the form of the Apni Party and other such flirtations.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

I said that we stand for strong relations with India, we stand for peaceful resolution of all our problems with India, including Kashmir.

I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.

I was born there and I moved away in 1990 when I was seven years old. After that my family moved away from there to Delhi and Mumbai. Now, only a handful of relatives live in Kashmir and we are constantly worried about them. It pains me to see that my birth-place is not a safe place to be in anymore.

All I want to achieve is to present the unreported history of Kashmiri Hindus.

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

Pakistan is keen to promote its trade with India, we want economic ties getting stronger with India. Our business community is keen to reach out to their Indian counterparts. And of course, we want to resolve the issue of Kashmir, which is a flash point in our relations.

Article 370 is not a separatist slogan.

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.

Kashmir is an integral part of India, and nobody can take it away from us.

I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.

My Government is committed to the equitable development of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

As a kid, since I was born in Kashmir, I have been to the Amarnath caves.

Jammu is part of the state but the people of Jammu do not face the same kind of difficulties that we face in Kashmir.

I had said impunity of APSPA should be removed in order to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir.

It is the Jammu and Kashmir government, which has to take an initiative of inviting actors and the film industry to the state.