A Central Battle
The first phase of Lok Sabha polls witnessed 34 per cent plus participation but ended with a teenager’s killing. As the dance of democracy...
A Lone Fight
A week ahead of the first phase of polling, Shams Irfan spent a few days trekking north Kashmir to understand how the two Lones...
The Poll Migrants
Elected to the basic tyre of village development in an abysmally low participated election, most of the new lords and ladies of village politics...
Mayor Making
As independents dominated the outcome of Srinagar’s lowest-polled municipal election, the politics reinvented the past to create a future that is in a sharp...
Decimal Divide
Municipal elections have offered decimal statistics of democracy currently in vogue in Kashmir. The black and white map offers a clear view of the...
A Silent Election
As Kashmir’s two main political parties stayed away from the polls and the militants are tactically enforcing a boycott, 392 of 624 municipal wards...
Taken for a Ride
Elections are a complex process in Kashmir both in terms of logistics and security. Umar Mukhtar talks to drivers who risked their lives and...
Discordant Tones
Two years after the BJP and PDP entered into polar alliance, nothing much has moved on the Kashmir front. After 2016 unrest and recent...
What next?
After Srinagar by-polls proved costly in terms of human loss and manifestation of anger the question remains what will happen in south on May...
“Why did not 93% people vote and why so many persons came out to...
Shantmanu, the senior IAS officer who is state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) was depressed the whole day on April 9 when an unprecedented situation...
Bloody Sunday
One of the bloodiest polling days in Kashmir’s recent history left 8 dead and over two hundred injured. Zubair Sofi manages to travel through...
Volcanic Verdict
Unprecedented since 1951, the first recorded election, the poll, re-poll and the postponement in Kashmir bypolls is the newest protest that cannot become a...
Campaign Whispers
With massive tensions at ground zero, PDP and Congress candidates pitted for the South Kashmir Lok Sabha seat are busy in a lethargic, low-cost,...
Why?
As the four districts are trying to get a semblance of routine after losing 77 youth in 2016 unrest, amid frequent interventions in bloody...
“I cannot justify things”
Ace cinematographer Tasaduq Mufti’s formal joining of politics is the new son-rise in Kashmir politics. In a freewheeling interview with Masood Hussain, Mufti Jr...
