“Ye kya uthaaye kadam aur aa gayi manzil, Mazaa to tab hai ke paeron mein kuch thakaan rahey.”

Rahat Indori may have poetically justified the pain of a long-drawn process, but when it comes to Jammu and Kashmir, the single most depressing news is the inability of the political parties to come up with a solution to the stalemate in government formation. Politics has gone into a state of deep-freeze this winter, despite a fabulous election and robust campaigning by all four major political parties: PDP, BJP, NC and Congress.