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’....
Amit Shah, Padshah!
BJP’s over-ambitious plan to emerge the single largest party in J&K is an intelligent ideation. It has unnerved both the unionists and separatists as...
Second Innings
With power as the target, government employees don neta caps post-retirement to restart “public service” while enjoying impunity for the past. Safwat Zargar dwells...
Silencing Sailan
Terrified by a threat, 22 men, women and children of an extended family huddled together to save their skin in the summer of 1998....
Masjid Matters
From once lively socio-religious places where even affairs of the state used to be discussed mosques are now mere prayer halls. Raashid Maqbool finds...
Baltal Blaze
For decades local Muslims fed and carried Hindus to the cave shrine. Now when non-local stakeholders started meddling with their livelihood, a crisis erupted....
