Haseeb A Drabu
Haseeb A Drabu is an economist. He has worked with the Planning Commission, Finance Commission, and Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister. He has also been Economic Advisor to the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and Chairman and Chief Executive of the J&K Bank.
His last public engagement has been Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Tamed, Not Caged
Chitralekha Zutshi’s book, Sheikh Abdullah – The Caged Lion of Kashmir is by far the most perceptive work on Abdullah but is short of...
Rahman Rahi: Death of the Doyen
Celebrating our own cultural personalities is a way of reaffirming our identity, writes Haseeb A Drabu, in a tribute to Rahi sahab
Rahman Rahi’s...
Darbar Move: An Obituary
Jammu and not Srinagar should mourn the demise of the darbar move, writes Haseeb A Drabu, asserting that the undoing of half capital status...
Faith, Fast and Feast
What is the role of food in the month of fasting? Haseeb A Drabu professes that its epicurean aspects are markers of Kashmiri identity...
Should There Be A New Federal Compact Between The Centre and States?
In the book, Beyond Covid’s Shadow: Mapping India’s Economic Resurgence, Haseeb A Drabu makes a case and suggests an alternative. Here is an abridged...
Why Bulbul Is A Better Bet And Not The Flycatcher?
The Jammu and Kashmir administration is set to make the endangered Kashmir flycatcher its official bird. Haseeb A Drabu writes why Bulbul will be...
Developmental Democracy?
The Naya Kashmir of the twenty-first century is “by the corporation, of the corporation, and for the corporations", writes Haseeb A Drabu
After decisively changing...
Why It Is Time For A Rethink In PAGD?
by Haseeb A Drabu
While its many distinct and distinctly different parts have shared history, treacherous and torturous as it was, the geographical expanse of...
Past of the Future
By the weave of the book, the author has reclaimed the past of his generation. Does the weft of his narrative frame the future...
Why Gupkar Declaration Is A Significant Development?
by Haseeb A Drabu
What is important today more than the text of Gupkar Declaration 2.0 is the coming together of all the Kashmir-centric parties...
Why Jammu and Kashmir Is Not As Bad As It Is Being Officially Projected?
by Haseeb A Drabu
Kashmir is the only place where the house-hold debt is lower than its asset cover. The “balance sheet” of a Kashmiri...
Economy Sans The Fig Leaf
Beyond the lockdown losses, the constitutional and legislative changes will have a long term impact on the local economy and its structure writes Haseeb A...
Did BJP Kill A Shadow To Sharpen A Silhouette In Kashmir?
by Haseeb A Drabu
Circa 2014. Halfway through election campaigning, it occurred to me that the issues of azaadi, autonomy and Article 370 were never...
Why July 13 Decision-making Is A Bid To Erase Inherited History?
by Haseeb A Drabu
Today was the Yaum-e-Shuhda. This day, 89 years back, twenty-two people protesting the trial of an anti-maharaja activist were shot dead...
Why, In Contesting Narratives, Kashmir Is Lost In The Translation?
by Haseeb A Drabu
In an occasional article (GK, Sunday, 26th April 2020), I did a semiotic analysis of one of its news reports. To...
