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Jammu is my home now," fresh-faced Dimple Kaul says, the vermilion caste mark on her forehead proclaiming her Kashmiri Pandit identity in the state's predominantly Muslim summer capital.

Kashmir's centrality to the differences between India and Pakistan cannot be glossed over. It's the issue that colours everything.

They don't wear widows' weeds here. With their dangling ear-rings and colourful beads, there is little to set the widows of Gardoo apart from the other women in the village.

In the final analysis, no country's foreign policy can be separated from its domestic conundrums.