Dog days
People spilled a lot of anger on the face book last week after a child was mauled by stray dogs in the city. He...
Revival Needed
Markets are showing the same morbidity that was seen after the 2014 floods. There were serious efforts to revive but the 2016 unrest came...
Social impact of militarization
Dr. Bashir A. DablaIt was reported in 1990 that there were about 1,50,000 soldiers stationed in Kashmir, i.e. about 17 soldiers per square mile...
Umeed Matters
There are quite a few state-sponsored schemes that have triggered sort of a change at ground zero. One of them is the National Rural...
INTERNET AND DEMOCRACY
IT has revolutionized the world and the economies around. It is the speed of the internet and the pace of the information management that...
Golf Monopoly Ends
Over the years, Jammu and Kashmir has invested huge money in a network of golf, a luxury sport, but the number of players is...
Endangered livelihoods
Kashmir is going through a crisis, where lives and livelihoods are endangered. Given the toll in the last few months – lives lost, inflicted...
Feeling Pain
Every time Israel launches an offensive on helpless Palestinians, Kashmiris feels the pain. Since last week’s aerial bombing of civilian areas in Gaza there...
Battle of ideas
Undeclared curfews, barricaded roads and preventive detentions are again becoming a routine in Kashmir. In the aftermath of the Shopian crisis,
Face It
Ideally September 7, 2014 floods should have served as a warning for our sleepy administration who seem to have developed a penchant for acting...
Exhibit Restraint
The electioneering has remained a comparatively peaceful affair since 2014. There were not many attacks on the people contesting polls, during the process. It...
The Way Out
In his maiden budget proposals when state’s finance minister Dr Haseeb Drabu said he intends to make government services unattractive, he was not announcing...
Denied Basics
In a tragic incident, a pregnant lady was denied ambulance by Primary Health Centre, Kalaroos in frontier Kupwara district, which led to her delivering...
Institutional collapse in Kashmir
Dr Gull Mohd WaniKashmir has once again plunged into complete chaos. Once again accusing fingers are being raised. Security experts and political leaders are...
Birth pangs
In a civil society that has an extraordinarily high sense of ethnic, class and nationality issues,
