Kashmir's Famous Five missing in action

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The big daddies and their spunky kids will sit out of the Lower House. Six unknown faces, with no or little repute in Delhi circles, will walk into the Lok Sabha complex. In a way it portends well, given that the old and jaded have failed Kashmir and its people. Among the daddy troika of Kashmir politics, the effervescent but non-serious Farooq Abdullah will add glitz and glamour to the Upper House. He will crack a joke or sing a papa number inviting laughter from his colleagues. The canny Ghulam Nabi Azad will sit next to him and laugh too. But that is not all he will do. He has a tough job to do, months after the PDP - People's Democratic Party - and God rendered him jobless last autumn. Azad's new job, a challenging one though, is to salvage the Sonia Gandhi-headed Congress in states....