Kashmir Life
A Costly Recess
As around 160 thousand students are writing their examinations for three classes, Umar Khurshid revisits the state of education and the schooling in the...
Briefing (November 03-09, 2019)
Britain’s Kashmir Politics
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reiterated UK’s age-old Kashmir policy as a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan but asserted...
Daring Diplomacy?
Two non-descript NGOs run by shady managers flew 27 far-right European MPs to Delhi for what experts say, “controlling to conversation”. After meeting the...
A Bloody Migration
Desperate apple growers and the manufactures invested lot of time and resource to get the workforce back to work. Then a series of attacks...
A State In Transition
After almost three months of lockdown, the state of Jammu and Kashmir finally was re-organised into a federally-ruled Union Territory. To be ruled by...
Briefing (October 27-November 02, 2019)
MADHAV’S PAPER TIGERS
SRINAGAR: With political class in jail, markets shut and freedom of speech suspended, ruling BJP flew Ram Madhav, its Kashmir hand, to...
BJP’s New Tensions
Though the elections for the local bodies and Panchayats were considered a hugely partial exercise, at least in Kashmir, the outcome of the just...
Labour Deficit
In run-up to August 5, when the government issued advisory asking non locals to leave Kashmir immediately, tens of thousands of skilled and migrant...
Briefing (October 20-26, 2019)
GANGBAL
After three weeks the operations in Kangan’s Gangbal forests was declared officially over. With only two militants killed, the army said they are actually...
Election On Kashmir
Kashmir may not have any election anytime soon. But BJP made the abrogation of Article 370 and Kashmir such a powerful issue during election...
Breaking A Silence
Barely four days ahead of the platinum jubilee of the communication lockdown, when the phones returned to life, not every call was a happy...
Bloody Harvest
Unlike all other unrests that Kashmir witnessed since 1990, apple somehow escaped the crisis. In the wake of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s...
Hanging An Imposter
In 1859, the East India Company hanged a Jammu Faqeer in Sialkot for claiming to be a prophet. Its details were published by Lahore...
The New Volunteers
Watching the farmers facing a crisis in paddy harvesting, groups of well educated youth started helping them volunatrilty and the trend has the potential...
Briefing (October 13-19, 2019)
BEIJING
For most of the last week, the tension in Delhi’s diplomatic circles was if at all Chinese President Xi Jinping will keep his date...
