Maverick In A Web
A fractured verdict has given Mufti Sayeed led PDP 28 seats. With BJP getting solid 25 seats from Jammu and the rest of the...
Next CM Is…
By Tuesday EVMs will reveal the verdict. By all accounts, neither two regional nor two national parties are expected to come even near to...
Fair Presence
There are many women in fray in 2014’s election for 87-seat assembly. As the state is heading towards the last phase, there are barely...
Bellwether Drabu
In his professional career of 30 years, Haseeb Drabu wore many hats and made many rudimentary shifts in how J&K thinks, earns, saves and...
Acid Test
Sufferings of remote Kupwara in last two decades created an ideal situation for any unconventional politician to have his debut, an opportunity that a...
In a Dilemma
Kashmir has experienced interestingly different elections, but the change in mainland India’s political landscape has led to an identity assertion which many think could...
Sindh’s ‘Changed’ Course
Ruling NC felt the heat this summer when its charming patriarch Dr Abdullah lost an election for the first time. In a quick follow-up,...
Democracy’s Kings
Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what the politics can offer...
circa 1947: A Long Story
After heading Information, Libraries and Archives Departments of J&K Government and retiring as Secretary of the Cultural Academy, Khalid Bashir Ahmad started probing the...
Flooded Faithfully
It was not individual greed or the policy failure at the highest decision-making levels only that Kashmir’s watercourse is facing barriers. Even the faithful...
7 Steps To Recovery
With assembly polls round the corner, there is utmost urgency in managing the basic spadework to help flood-devastated Kashmir get back on recovery track....
Do Not Blame JHELUM
Governance failure apart, societal corruption, greed and biotic interventions in fragile ecology invited Rs 100,000 crore catastrophe to the City of Kashmir. R S...
Flood Money
For many it was a crisis but for a few the flood was an opportunity. As hundreds of youth risked their lives to save...
Historic Failure
Omar government could not have prevented the floods but had the capacity to manage it partly. R S Gull details the escape of an...
Being A Woman!
Be it workplace harassment, eve-teasing, indecent gestures at places of study, or violence at home, women live through unending nightmare in a ‘man’s world’....
