The interlocutors report “A New Compact with the People of Jammu and Kashmir” would have been laughable had it not been so tragic.

Kashmir is still aching, with no reprieve in the tears and the tensions. The death of the young man in custody in Sopore has sparked off a wave of protests, which do not make the headlines in Delhi but are definitely a sign of the trauma that has overtaken the Valley. And this is certainly not alleviated by tweets from the tweeting chief minister Omar Abdullah who seems to have disappeared into cyber space and is rarely seen by the people of the state.