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There were times when ambassadors and law-makers of the European Union (EU) would visit Kashmir to talk about the tourism potential of the Valley and seek building of mutual partnerships, as normalcy made a sense of its own then.

Tomorrow, when envoys from nearly two dozen countries, including those representing the EU, would arrive in Kashmir, they would be made to see normalcy moving up step-by-step after the relaxation of various degrees of the August 5, 2019, “big bang” when the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was stripped off Article 370, and the fear of massive protests led to a lockdown that the world saw through the prism of western media.