Volte-face of AAP on Kashmir
Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain
For a long time Indian politics has been tri-polar. On one side of it remained Jan Sang and its reincarnate Bhartiya...
Searching New ‘Heroes’
Modi’s love for Sardar Patel, a congressman, has reignited debate about his role in marginalizing Indian Muslims. Dr Altaf Hussain Para revisits some of...
Madiba, no more!
Irtif Lone
Nelson Mandela
Mandela’s biggest legacy was his remarkable lack of bitterness and the way he did not only talk about reconciliation, but he made...
The Plague Within
Saadut
In its December 20th, 2012 issue Tehelka wrote ‘How do we stop rapes? India looks for answers’. It further advocated ‘there was only one...
Surviving a Trap
By Nayeem Rather
A scene in Turtles Can Fly (2004), a Kurdish war film set in a refugee camp on Iraqi-Turkish border, where a 12-year-old...
Weakening Social Fabric
Enam Lone
In this modern world, our rate of change of almost everything is fast. That of trending careers and fashions. That of advancement in...
Sardar Patel Reborn?
BJP’s PM candidate Modi has not said much about Kashmir issue during his recent campaigns. Dr Altaf Hussain Para argues that being a Sardar...
Murder, Vicious and Wanton
Muhammad Shafi Khan
Shoot, after all,
We are only an inconvenience of a few lakh souls.
So, we go ahead, shoot, blast us to eternity...
Wipe us out...
Haqeeqat-e-Kashmir: A celebration of life
Hakeem Raashid
Over hundreds of years of occupation and subjugation Kashmir has evolved its own culture of resistance. But least would be the times in...
Orgasmic at 19,000 feet
Sameer Bhat
The unthinkable has just happened. Bayerisches Staatsorchester, or the Bavarian State Orchestra, has performed at the Shalimar gardens. The Orchestra was founded in...
TOSAMAIDAN: Waste Land
Tosa Maidan, a beautiful meadow converted into firing range by army during 60s became death trap for scores of locals as unexploded shells lay...
Kashmiri Pundits: WILL THEY RETURN OR NOT
Dr Bashir A Dabla
After mass migration of the KPs from Kashmir in 1991-93, the sole question of basic importance remained will they return back? ...
Musharraf the visionary
by Shujaat Bukhari
Pakistan’s former President General Parvez Musharraf may be the most hated person in his country today, but in Kashmir, he has many...
Influenced By Strife
I. The Perspective:
Police is the first agency in the criminal justice system, their approach and attitude in handling the cases has a very important...
The Marginalization of ‘Azad’ Kashmir
Raza Rumi
Arundhati Roy has been exposing the brutalities of the Indian State in the ‘occupied’ Jammu and Kashmir. She has questioned the presence of...