The fear of death has not only failed to serve as a deterrent but getting killed at the hands of security forces is now considered glamorous.
With the hope and joy of a young Kashmiri girl captured on camera, can the vicious narrative cycle of "martyred militants", like Burhan Wani, becoming heroes for J&K's youth be broken?
The toll of security forces in the anti-terror operations tells another important story.
The dance of death is taking a toll on both sides.
There is an obvious ambivalence between the policies of the Centre and the state.
The Jammu & Kashmir CM insists the issue requires a political solution which cannot be achieved through terror.
Rhetoric with radicalism being romanticised has destroyed the state.
Islamabad's strategy is set to fail because the world does not support terror and Burhan Wani was a terrorist.
They don't even know whether they are Indian or Pakistani or Kashmiri or Swedish.