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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Discourse

This is a section of opinion and analysis, mostly based on the current issues.

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...
Youth of Shopian engaged in a ding dong battle with para military forces.

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...
Prof Mehraj Uddin Mir

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...