Despite the issue being complex and affecting national security, successive regimes have never fully explained it to the people at large. The result has been that there are several shades of opinion on the origin of the problem over half a century ago, its historical development and our official stand on it. Only a few who have laboured to study the problem's background and its evolution into a crisis know the truth of it all. And those few are those who have written books on J&K -- books that, alas, have not been read and digested by those who work in the Indian news media.

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