Lost Prime Minister
After replacing Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad led a popularly corrupt regime. Syed Asma meets the former Prime Minister's surviving wife to...
Homecoming Pandits
BJP has made return of migrant Kashmiri Pandits focus of its Kashmir policy. As Omar Abdullah government is awaiting approval to its enhanced Rs...
Hanging By The Relic
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq led Awami Action Committee (AAC) was barred from celebrating its Golden Jubilee last month. The party that has remained part of...
Re-opening Wounds
As Omar Abdullah announced a fresh probe into the 2010 civil unrest that saw more than a hundred youth dead and scores blinded by...
Playing With Marriage!
A dejected employee exploited loopholes in J&K’s existing marriage registration system to blackmail his boss by marrying his daughter ‘legally’ without her knowledge. Syed...
Pampered ‘Pink House’
All the high and mighty knew the happenings in Roop Nagar’s isolated pink house. Twenty years after, a young woman fled from the high-end...
Funding Faith
Money collected from different sources including tax on liquor sales is used to fund state’s ambitious plan of renovation and repair of religious places...
Vajpayee’s Kashmir
Bed-ridden Atal Bihari Vajpayee might be oblivious to the fact that, in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, NC and PDP made more references to...
What Next?
With 20:20 over, Kashmir’s Reds and Greens are fighting a much tougher battle over the vote later this year. Shah Abbas explains the possible...
Magic Mufti
Wresting all the three Lok Sabha seats from NC in Kashmir, ensuring Congress’ defeat for the twin Jammu seats, Mufti Sayeed left only Ladakh...
Setting The Trends
Elections to the Parliament are over in J&K. Moderate mobilization and low participation apart, the exercise exhibited many interesting aspects which may reflect in...
Unpredictable
High Altitude Battle
Unlike the last four phases in J&K, the last one involving Ladakh and Baramulla is being contested by parties so intensely that...
Southern Slide
As separatists are patting themselves, unionists PDP and NC are claiming victory in the Mehboob versus Mehbooba poll that witnessed absence of 72% voters....
Death Trap
As the army’s authority over the use and misuse of Tosamaidan meadow expired after five decades, the fascinating but tattered landscape is in sharp...
Black April
Contemporary history lacks a clear analysis of the events that unfolded in Kashmir following ZA Bhutto’s execution. More than 35 years after Suhail A...
