What stops going from India to Pakistan or coming to India from Pakistan, stops only for the moment. What does not stop or even slow down, simply, does not stop or slow down. For it cannot. It is meant to cross over, to journey, to be shared, experienced. Its very nature intends it to keep moving, happening.
Nothing can halt it, no adesh-nidesh here, no fatwa there.
After traumas such as Uri, it would be naïve to expect bilateralism to flow like some dream-stream between the two countries. Not just naïve, it would be absurd. A blow is a blow. You cannot pretend that you have not been stunned, shaken, hurled down. You cannot pretend not wanting to give it back, right and proper.
But just as the process of…
