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Friday, April 19, 2024
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Discourse

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

Lok Sabha Polls

by Khursheed Wani Plenty of water has flown through Jhelum and Chenab rivers in last five years. The Lok Sabha elections in 2014 were fought...

An Open Dialogue

by Khursheed Wani The Hurriyat Conference leaders would not directly call Governor Satya Pal Malik to complain about “atrocity and injustice” nor would they send...

Lone, Not Alone

by Khursheed Wani Peoples Conference has the unique distinction of being a Kashmir-centric political party divided into two factions with diametrically opposite ideologies. It is...

Elections? When?

by Khursheed Wani From the day Governor Satya Pal Malik dramatically dissolved the state assembly in November 2018, the election discourse began taking the centre...

A Fall and a Rise

It was interesting to see a political party getting undone within months of losing power and the fragmented political landscape of Kashmir witnessing the...

Doomed PDP?

Between its decision of pulling down Azad government in 2008 and joining hands with BJP in 2014, the PDP has lost the middle-ground that...

Drabu’s Silent Exit

by Khursheed Wani When elections are round the corner, the political landscape undergoes permutations and combinations, dissension and fresh alignments. Though election bugle has not...

Maharaja Malik

by Khursheed Wani Talking to technology students at Gwalior, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik made a creative remark on his hasty decision to...

Checkmating BJP

by Khursheed Wani The controversial dissolution of state assembly by Governor Satya Pal Malik would escort the embattled state into election mode and trigger permutations...

Banished Basant

by Khursheed Wani Over the past few years, the civil secretariat must have set a record of maximum number of transfers and postings, often premature...

Rajnath’s Revelations

Khursheed Wani On October 23, Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Srinagar for a daylong visit to oversee the security and developmental scenario. The visit...

Brand Making

by Masood Hussain Slain Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant Manan Wani was distinct from his peers by one simple thing: unlike all other prominent faces in the Burhan...

Argumentative Raj Bhawan

by Khursheed Wani It is a fact that Raj Bhawan in Jammu and Kashmir underwent discernable change since Satya Paul Malik was hurriedly called in...

Op Democracy

by Khursheed Wani The plausible argument presented by the state administration for holding a mammoth exercise of civic polls revolves around the quantum of funding...

Stop This Blame Game

by Khursheed Wani The functioning of private educational institutions is in sharp focus. On September 15, authorities suspended the re-registration of a branch of a...