The Guardians
From once bustling households to dreaded torture centers and military camps, pandit properties in Kashmir have withstood time and politics. Bilal Handoo travels across Kashmir to unmask...
Karnama
Taking off from Muslim Conference and leading from the front in National Conference, Sopore’s Ghulam Rasool Kar eventually landed in Congress. Shuttling between power...
A University’s Fall
Started on a high note with western model in mind, IUST is falling from grace even before a formal take-off. With political connections, family...
BaltisTral
Around 175 years ago, Dogra invasion in Baltistan led to banishment of King Ahmad Shah and his family in Kashmir. After twists and turns,...
Messy Education
With most of the money spent for the welfare of teachers the leftover hardly helps the cause of providing quality education to the underprivileged...
Alam in Uproar
At the peak of 2010 mass unrest, police put a million rupees booty on his head. When arrested, cops got Rs 25 lakh instead....
Smart Agenda
Ideologues of two parties spent two months drafting a ‘smart’ accord. Win-win for both involving give-and-take, many ask if this North Pole-South Pole regime...
Modi-Mufti Accord?
Kashmir history is replete with treaties and accords. Certain agreements between Delhi and Srinagar involve the people of Kashmir directly, unlike all others. In...
Kashmir’s Crash Lands
Last week’s chopper crash at Safapora was neither the first one nor is expected to be the last air crash in Kashmir. Since 1947...
Legislative Kinship
With politics as the new power profession, families are now joining the race. Compromising ideas and ideologies, the new trend is getting Kashmir closer...
Tral Trap
Amid claims of Kashmir bouncing back to halcyon days, army sees Tral as the new ‘militant hotspot’. The latest clash saw two fresh militant...
Justice AK-47
Systemic paralysis during militancy’s amorphous years in 1990s saw the closure of formal courts, ‘encouraging’ people to throng mobile informal courts. Safwat Zargar revisits...
Partition Agenda
Rightwing BJP seems in a hurry to force its agenda for the new government. Apart from seeking citizenship rights for the West Pakistan refugees,...
Lotus In Kashmir
In its attempts to create a foothold in the greener pastures of Kashmir, BJP over the years roped in valley’s political-nobodies, even holding hands...
Mufti’s Last Gamble?
After giving PDP the highest ever seats in a hung house, nobody knows why there is inordinate delay in setting up of a government...
