This is a section of opinion and analysis, mostly based on the current issues.
The health givers are messiahs in their own right because they help people to live longer, reduce their pain and…
by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days…
by Reyaz Wani Kashmir has been under an uninterrupted lockdown since the withdrawal of Article 370 in August 2019. Though…
by Tasavur Mushtaq In January 2020, five months after Jammu and Kashmir was downgraded into two Union Territories, internet access was…
In these trying circumstances, there is a need to preserve the idea of community, writes Ikhlaq Qadri A scare is a…
The months that Omar Abdullah spent in confinement are far less than the years’ Sheikh Abdullah did. Then why did…
by Shams Irfan A few decades back who would have imagined that even small villages dotting the picturesque valley of Lolab…
Amarjeet Singh Dulat, the former RAW boss, and author of Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years has close friends in Kashmir politics.…
by Masood Hussain The binning of Jammu and Kashmir’s hollowed special status and bifurcation of the state into two federally…
by Riyaz Wani If anything the slapping of the Public Safety Act (PSA) on Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti has…
by Shams Irfan As the season’s first snowfall carpets the vale under a white blanket, a sight that has once inspired…
by Masood Hussain Narendra Modi’s victory in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections is not an ordinary one. It is a…
by Tasavur Mushtaq With protesters clashing with police and paramilitary forces at several places, Kashmir came to a halt on…
by Masood Hussain Politics is hugely influenced by wildlife, especially by the lion. In every country, there is somebody who…
by Sheikh Mushtaq Last week, strife-weary residents emerged in nervous trickles to cast their votes at highly guarded polling booths…