Kashmir Life
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...
Briefing
“I will not say anything on Jammu and Kashmir. At this juncture, it is better to maintain silence.”
Dr Karan Singh, Kashmir’s first and the...
Gandhi And Kashmir
In order to imagine how Mahatma Gandhi would have responded to Kashmir’s present situation, it is important to understand Gandhi’s long Kashmir story first...
Briefing
SRINAGAR
Last time when Pakistan had to justify its nuclear test before the world, its foreign minister read out the statements that Dr Farooq Abdullah,...
Grounded On Water
The abrupt August 4, order asking tourists and pilgrims to leave Kashmir marked the end of a busy tourist season. Shams Irfan met the...
Briefing
SHAHNAWAZ AALAM (July 1958- September 2019)
Jammu and Kashmir’s top Rural development academician, Prof ShahnawazAalam, 61, died On September 17. Cancer in his lungs was...
