Navlakha, Gautam creator text xu| 2000 continuing ng p.253-55 If the central government is sincere in its desire to seek a peaceful solution to the Kashmir issue, then the first step towards this goal is to privilege politics over guns, set free the thousands of prisoners against whom no charges have been filed as well as the Hurriyat leaders in preventive detention. It is time to challenge the received wisdom that the assertion of the idea of `azadi' is lethal, but not hate politics of certain political parties. - Reproduced Jammu and Kashmir - Politics and government Politics and government Economic and Political Weekly 180718