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...
Overseas Aid
A general belief that Christian minorities are mobilizing off-shore resources to manage their activities in J&K is not a fact. The Buddhist minority concentrated...
bigWIGS
With smaller parties and neo-politicians out to claim their pie in the electoral cake, the trend has the potential of offsetting the overall calculations...
Unheard Cries
While lethality and legality of pellet gun is still a matter of debate, silent and unending ordeal of victims and their families remain unheard....
Fantastic Four
Parents mistaking sports as time-pass may have to change their opinion as four top Kashmir sportsmen are millionaires already. Despite the serious infrastructural deficit,...
Cricketing Confluence
As Afridi batted his sixes to victory, cricket became the European Rugby with clashes hitting cheering Kashmiris left, right and centre. With a UP...
