It came as a matter of considerable relief, therefore, when the Prime Minister pointed out in his Independence Day address to the tion that the solution to the problem did not lie in abuses or guns but in embracing the Kashmiris. “ gaali se, goli se, Kashmir me parivartan hoga gale lagaane se,” he said. Now, Union Home Minister Rajth Singh has taken the cue from rendra Modi by appointing an interlocutor for reaching out to the dissenters. The government, therefore, can be said to be approaching the stone-pelters not with anyone tied to a jeep but on foot with open arms.