Kashmir, a beautiful region of India, was sandwiched between newly-created Pakistan and truncated India from the bloody partition of 1947. Thanks to the British Colonial Rulers. It remains an unresolved mystery, similar to the Bermuda Triangle and hence the name of this book. Today, older generations who have lived through bloody ethnic violence do not want to talk about it as there are a lot of painful memories attached; the younger generations are either vaguely aware or do not know what the hell is this Kashmir crisis. This book is an attempt to reach out to both sections of the masses. It builds an interesting correlation on why this beautiful land becomes synonymous with the Bermuda Triangle of India. How Kalashnikov, Kahwa, and Kaffir came to represent the three vertices of the triangle turning this paradise into perdition, where the search for panacea continues.
The USP of this book is the 7Cs, the mantras that can be converted into strategic and operational approaches in resolving this very vexing issue. For readers, five of the 7Cs mantras suggested in this book have been mentioned in the speech by the Home Minister during one of his visits to Kashmir in 2018. There has been a consistent demand by the UN, Pakistan, and mostly Sunni Muslim Kashmiris for the 'Plebiscite,' a big No and a taboo topic for the Indian political setup.
Today's history writing is not limited to pure academics alone. The advent of social media into the lives of the common man has greatly influenced people's perception of facts and helped in forming their narratives on the circumstances. King's historians and their interpretation of history are daily challenged. This book is written in straightforward language, giving the readers a 360-degree view of the Kashmir conflict, focusing on its geography, history, and religion, as well as all the off-the-shelf solutions to this current problem. At the same time, the author has shared his very own out-of-box approach to resolving the Kashmir conflict, which resonates with the current government's strikingly similar approach.
Hope the politicians, historians, administrators, scholars, and a lay reader too will like this pure offering. Numerous colored historical pictures and maps have been included to enhance the utility of the book. The USP for this Amazon edition is the "Plebiscite" model proposed by the Author to the Government of India. This came to his mind after attending the Nov 2019 Congressional hearing on Kashmir in Capitol Hill by the partisan jury of anti-India congress members of the USA. To make all mouths shut forever, the author came up with this idea and proposed through this book to the Govt of Bharat. How? Buy and read the book! It also covers in this edition' the Abrogation of Article 370 and 35A by the Modi 2.0 govt in 2019. Easily the Best Book in its category