Srinagar, Jan. 4 -- The silence of Kashmiri youth is not emptiness. It is full of questions, of waiting, of fragile but stubborn hope. If we listen closely, we may hear what it has been trying to tell us all along: that a generation cannot survive forever on patience alone. In Kashmir, silence is not always empty. Sometimes it is crowded with thoughts left unsaid, dreams postponed, and grief that has learned to sit quietly in the corner of the room. This silence walks beside the young every day, follows them to classrooms and job interviews, and waits for them at night when the world finally grows still. Kashmiri youth have inherited a life shaped by interruptions. Their memories are stitched together with school closures, uncertain calen...