Hari Singh A Despot, Not A Hero
by Krishan Dev Sethi
Hari Singh cannot be a hero of Jammu. He was a despot. How can an autocrat be a hero? I consider...
Dangal Makeover
By: Khursheed Wani
(Zaira Wasim with Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti (KL Image))
On January 14, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had no official engagement related to the...
Will Nazki deliver?
By Khursheed Wani
By the end of 2016, State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) completed two decades of its existence in the trouble-torn J&K.Kashmir. It is...
Politics of Relevance
By Khursheed Wani
Twenty-three years ago, All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) was launched under the leadership of teenaged Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, as a grouping of...
Hurriyat In Restrospect
By: Khursheed Wani
It may not be sheer coincidence that on the conclusion of Yashwant Sinha-led civil society group’s second Kashmir visit, the separatist triumvirate...
Into Half Year, Finally
By Khursheed Wani
On December 8, the anti-India uprising triggered by rebel Burhan Wani’s killing, completed five months, surpassing the previous records of rebellious courses...
Strike a balance
by Masood Hussain
Not in public knowledge, there were a few strong voices in the famous “stakeholders” conference in Hyderpora supporting the ongoing strike, now...
Lovely Leh
by Masood Hussain
Rinchan Shah apart, Kashmir has Ladakh written in bold on its history, primarily for two reasons. Firstly, it was a key stop...
People Matter
by Masood Hussain
If the flags, paintings, murals and road slogans are any indication then the south Kashmir will take some more time to get...
An Informal War
by Masood Hussain
Till last month, the only priority for the state government was to break the killing-protest-killing cycle. In security meetings, there is lot...
Think First, Jump Later
Teenage techie apart, the one thing that made a posthumous Burhan Wani towering in Kashmir’s recent history was his capacity to create a rebel...
An interlocutor in chains
The jailing of Khurram Parvez appears unjust — and against the government’s own self-interest in these troubled times in Kashmir, writes Nirupama Subramanian in...
Why BRICS ignored India-Pakistan tensions?
Former diplomat and foreign affairs commentator M K Bhadrakumar says that Russia was the lone winner in BRICS summit at Goa
International conferences can have winners and...
Why no one has clean hands in Kashmir?
Indians who are not Kashmiris must equally account for the repression committed in their name by successive governments of India in the Valley, a...
The freakish banality of state violence in Kashmir
Kashmir has been in a state of military lock-down for over 100 days, writes academic Mohammad Junaid
This summer while visiting my parents in South...
