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.
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...
Why The Package Is Just A Painkiller And Not A Fiscal Stimulus Intervention?
by Haseeb Drabu
Seventy-five days after the Union budget—during which the world we live in has changed unrecognizably—the Prime Minister announced a Rs 20 trillion package....
How Delhi’s Domicile Intervention Will Impact Kashmiri Pandits More Than Muslims?
Unlike Muslims, Kashmiri Pandits were the main players in enforcing stringent state subject laws to suit their own interests. Now by supporting the undoing...
Why Srinagar Can Live Better Without A Darbar?
Laced with revelations, in this piece Haseeb A Drabu makes a case for revitalising Srinagar, the city of Kashmir, without the crumbs and crutches...
Why Various Aspects of Kashmir’s Domicile Debate Have not Been Properly Understood?
by Haseeb A Drabu
A redefining of the domicile law has been on the cards post rescinding of Article 35A in August last year. Having...
Why Is Jammu and Kashmir’s First UT Budget Different?
by Haseeb A Drabu
The first budget for the Union Territory of J&K presented by Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman reflects the existential crisis that Jammu...
Why Erasing Sheikh’s Name Is Not A Promising Start?
by Dr Haseeb A Drabu
The great Czech writer, Milan Kundera starts his novel, Book of Laugher and Forgetting, with a historical anecdote: In 1948,...
How Article 35A Abrogation Will Make Jammu and Kashmir A Quasi-Sovereign State?
by Haseeb A Drabu
When the minions of the BJP promise abolition of Article 370 or Article 35A, especially prior to the elections, it is...
Why Militant Slaying Are Contract Supari Killings?
by Haseeb A Drabu
Last Saturday, 11 people were killed in Pulwama, Kashmir. This is the latest, not the last, an episode in an unending...
Kashmir The Way Forward: Haseeb Drabu speech text
SRINAGAR: J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday sacked senior PDP leader and Finance Minister Dr Haseeb A Drabu for making comments that violate the...
Spare A Thought, If Not A Rupee
Dr Haseeb Drabu
In 1873 a newspaper notice to American buyers in Paris, lists the price range for Kashmiri shawls to be 2000-5000 French francs....
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...
