Engage Youth
As newspapers reported violence re-emerging as the new tool of communication between the young and the government, security set-up of J&K played it down....
Troubled Times
In her latest Srinagar visit, noted environmental activist Sunita Narian was offended by a set of questions that she faced after delivering an impressive...
Natural Fury
With 19 incidents of cloudbursts followed by flash floods claiming 5 lives reported in Kashmir in last 20 days, Mother Nature is back in...
Don’t Forget
Every year the holy month of Ramzan brings in a sense of inner peace and piety. People are at their pious best. Everyone tries...
Outsourced
Last week there were three small news items that got neglected in the flow of routine. All three news items involved non-locals living in...
Denied
International watchdog Amnesty International’s latest report on human rights abuses in Kashmir titled Denied: Failures in accountability for human rights violations by security force...
Free KU
In last 25 years of conflict, Kashmir University has seen many phases, including the troubled ones. But there was never an instance when students...
Dark Streets
The first day of Ramazan in Kashmir was marked by curfew like restrictions in Srinagar and Sopore. The otherwise busy bazaars of Srinagar were...
Messy Roads
In last few years travelling to Srinagar from any part of the valley has become one hell of a hectic affair. Reason. Massive traffic...
Weather Costs
For the last three quarters, everybody was hopeful that the devastation wrecked by the unprecedented September 2014 floods would pave way for an elaborate...
Discrimination?
Most of the post-partition era was dominated by one key debate in J&K—”discrimination”. There have been already two commissions of enquiries looking into the...
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...
Omissions In Commissions
Constitution of inquiry commissions has been in fashion for a long time now. Accepting or rejecting recommendations of a Commission is the prerogative of...
Tufail Tragedy
It has been five years now that J&K government has been unable to tell the society who killed tenth grader Tufail Mattoo, whose murder...
Davos Dream
The timing could have been better if not perfect for having a wishful thinking to convert ailing tourist resort Gulmarg into India’s Davos (Switzerland)....
