OP-ED

Basharat Ali Last year I met a Kashmir University Professor in New Delhi who advised me to study “…this book by some Fukou (no he...

Muhammad Tahir If the two day ‘Srinagar Media Summit’ (hosted at SKICC by an NGO called Lehar), attracted headlines in Kashmir it was not only...

Mehraj ud din Every native in this place is engulfed and fettered with so many questions that it ended up perturbing our overall existence as...

Tanveer Ul Haq I hope Kashmir is done with celebrating the personal achievements of a few Kashmiris, who cracked the UPSC exam. I too congratulate...

Basharat Ali On July 13, the Martyrs Day, all pro-freedom groups have called for a united strategy. Whether this ‘unity call’ is a consequence of...

Mohammad Ahseem The debate generated over the arrest of a Kashmir University student recently attains meaning only when perceived in its proper context. Divorcing the...

Nasrun Mir Srinagar is a curious place. On Thursday when water levels of the river Jhelum were bulging, and the murky waters again threatened to...

Riyaz Rashid A strong word of mouth is: representatives of Rohingya Muslims are making rounds in Kashmir. The timing of their visit has set off...

Basharat Ali Last week parts of North Kashmir were literally cut-off from the rest of the world; at least in the sense we understand interconnectedness...

Muhammad Tahir When political closure gave rise to the Kashmiri armed militancy in the late 1980s, the autonomous political process was suspended momentarily by the...

Amit Koul I am not well-versed with writing skills. But the amount of pain, regrets and old memories, I carry since long, makes me pen...

Mehraj Din  Disremembering our roots turns out into forgetting our identity and divorcing our identity ends up erasing the roots and fruits of our civilization....

Mohammad Ahseem The mufti-led coalition government that is now in its third months has so far been unable to serve anything substantial to the common...

Basharat Ali The creation of APHC has a shady and ambiguous history. Multiple narratives thrive as what led to the creation of an amalgam drawn...

Riyaz Rashid For a long time now, Kashmiris have been crying at top of their voices that their holy land is being turned into a...