De-Stinging AFSPA
Both the government and opposition are talking loud about the need to repeal Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and expressing helplessness to revoke...
J&K is NHPC’s Power House
India’s hydropower major NHPC has initiated the process of harvesting wind energy near Salal power station-its profit-making 690-MW flagship project in J&K. The idea...
The Black Sheep
Kashmir produces seven million kg of wool a year but lacks the capacity to process even one per cent of it. Sold at throwaway...
The Azad Factor
Half a century later, after Ghulam Nabi Azad parted ways with Congress, it triggered a sort of crisis in Jammu and Kashmir, his home...
Stone Hearted
What kind of a heart one needs to have to confront bullets with stones? This question baffles everyone. Suhail A Shah looks behind balaclavas...
Touch-and-Go
In 2015, Mufti Sayeed took two months to negotiate a common minimum programme with BJP. Ten months later, his daughter spent a quarter in...
Brothers in dark
After they were blinded in 2016 summer, they struggled in hospitals to manage their vision but failed. Then they survived on the sympathies, kind...
Blood, Boycott, Democracy
In a bid to see democracy restored at ground zero, Delhi skipped concerns of Kashmir’s two main political parties and ignored an overwhelming situation,...
Gulmarg To Geneva
With the rival armies engaged in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation on Kashmir borders, Indian and Pakistani diplomats are busy fighting the ‘war by...
The New Conflict
For a varied set of factors, the wildlife, mostly bear and leopard, are moving out of the forests frequently and have added a new...
Documenting Migration
The eruption of militancy in 1990 created a situation that is difficult to even imagine now, thirty years down the road. The situation had...
New Agriculture Policy
With the primary sector shrinking in size and space, encouraging migrations at the grassroots level, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has come up with...
Shaken Innocence
Child Sex Abuse (CSA) has remained a real big challenge in Kashmir and continues to be so. The other crisis is that people speak...
Not In Race
As the government in Jammu and Kashmir has started recruiting its staff, the selection lists exhibit a skewed regional balance. Syed Shadab Ali Gilani...
The Fall of The Feudal’s?
What has become of the erstwhile Zaildar families who dominated the society till the 1950s? Have they reconciled with the loss of paisa, power...
