Srinagar, Sept. 23 -- September 21 is a painful reminder of the urgent necessity of peace in our increasingly warring world. In his remarks, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the guns are still blazing in our fractured world. Nowhere is this more evident than in Gaza. For decades, a narrow strip of land has come to symbolise the collective failure of the international community. Instead of becoming a bridge between peoples, Gaza has been reduced to rubble this time. Its children have been robbed of their dreams and thousands of families have been forced into endless cycles of grief since last year. The humanitarian catastrophe and famine in Gaza today is not just a byproduct of war; it is the sad outcome of pol...