Home Calling!
As New Delhi debates its surrender policy and draws flak for calling back ‘militants’ from PaK, hardly anyone explains that apart from intending or...
In Oblivion: Life of a Renegade’s family
They fought India’s war in Kashmir and paid with their lives. Now their families, ignored by government and ostracised by the society, fight a...
HIGH & MIGHTY- J&K’S TOP 10
Irrespective of the political make up of societies and nations, power is always centred among a few people, a few high and mighty. They...
Dynastic Democracy
From an independent Kingdom to present dispensation, and a lot of chaos and tyranny in between, it has been a long journey for Kashmir’s...
WOMAN POWER
For the first time many Kashmiri women are holding positions of consequence in the state administration. Shazia Yousuf profiles 11 of them to get...
A Peerless Peer
After the jury selected Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, as the Kashmiri of the year 2009, Kashmir Life invited Dr Haseeb A Drabu...
10 controversies of 2009
While Shopian dominated 2009, there were other controversies too that hogged the headlines. Haroon Mirani lists the top 10.
CHINESE VISA ROW
The year 2009...
A PEERLESS PEER
After the jury selected Basharat Peer, author of Curfewed Night, as the Kashmiri of the year 2009, Kashmir Life invited Dr Haseeb A Drabu...
Skewed, Skimpy SKEWPY
Billed as a landmark, the government’s employment and welfare programme is mostly a cocktail of existing schemes with some more doles thrown in. Many...
BLOODLESS MURDER
They were launched as promising businesses but interfering politicians rendered them unviable. In effect shaking the lives of thousands of their employees. Haroon Mirani...
Switched Off
Busting the myth of normalcy, the union government has banned prepaid cellular service in J&K in a move that shakes four million users, seven...
Hand That Shakes
Congress’s association with Kashmir dates back to the 1930s. Using power as a lever afte Congress’s association with Kashmir dates back to the 1930s....
The Story So Far
Notwithstanding the massacres, unrest and detentions, there has rarely been any period during last two decades when New Delhi was not in touch with...
Now, Quiet Talks
New Delhi has given a new dimension to dialogue with Kashmir separatists by introducing “quiet talks” or “quiet diplomacy”. Why did the previous dialogues...
PACKAGING POLITICS
The last two decades have seen various prime ministers announce a flurry of economic packages for Jammu and Kashmir. The state government is expecting...
