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...