Rise, We Will
For a moment, it sounds fiction. To run a diesel generator in Rainwari hospital, Srinagar will have to secure fuel from Leh. To quench...
PM Visit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is flying to the state for a day and the security grid is on tenterhooks. The premier’s visit to Kashmir...
Baking on Dementia
Right now, most attention of the political groups is focused towards what the three interlocutors on Kashmir will say. Though divided within, they will...
Honouring post date
Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain
Legally Aligarh Muslin University is supposed to work for advancement of educational and cultural needs of Muslims. Consequently it has to...
Stop These Purchases
It has been more than three fortnights since the worst floods hit the nucleus of Kashmir, the Srinagar city. After the people moved away...
Refocusing Peace Process
Prof Gull Muhammad Wani
One of the architects of Kashmir accord of 1975, G Parthasarthi, used to describe India Pakistan relations as sibling rivalry and constant allergy of one to the other. It is a known fact that Indo-Pak relationship has been accident prone and largely influenced by geo-strategic forces.
It was after lot of soul searching and some indirect US facilitation that the peace process between India and Pakistan started with eight point composite dialogue process as the accepted framework. The external dimension of the peace process between Delhi and Islamabad did yield certain positive results. Though the internal dimension of the peace process remained connected to the external track, it was equally driven by fair amount of optimism and expectations of the people of J&K. After 2004, the internal track of the peace process saw certain important developments like opening of roads, people to people contact and also slow and mild trans-LoC trade.
Decade of Difference
In 2009, when Ms Jawahara Shawl decided to launch Kashmir Life, she just hoped to promote a small media venture that is distinct in...
Leaking Diplomacy
That it is a huge embarrassment for the State Department is an old story. The US cables leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, apart...
India’s choices
Whole of Sinai Peninsula was occupied by Israel and all of Soviet made armor and hardware rendered useless. Egypt retaliated in 1971 but failed...
Uncivil behaviour
Shazia Khan
With deterioration in literature and fine arts, the self esteem of a society takes a hit. Then many half truths and myths are associated with them. Other people with more self-righteous notions, even when misplaced, feel free to degrade such people and societies. An actress who, flashes her body and an anorexic figure to earn a living can’t be an exception. Prikanya Chopra after enjoying hospitality and warmth of people here, on her last day in Srinagar tweeted, “Shooting in Kashmir has been insanely tiring… last day in Srinagar… off to Delhi this afternoon! Phew… will b (sic) back to civilization soon…”
Assess Crop Damage
most of the summer, Kashmir has been desperately praying for a rainfall. But it skipped even the peak of monsoon which many think is...
Aid its prevention
Much has been written on AIDS as a disease; its life threatening nature, its transmission and its spread.
Be Realistic
Unlike other parts of India, politicians in Kashmir have rarely required people’s support. But whenever they needed, they innovated ideas to make them dance...
Women in cross fire
In a seminar on Women’s day at Gandhi Bhawan in Kashmir University, I got the opportunity to examine the problems of the women from the perspective of patriarchy and gender bias as built in the idea of nation when some women activists working at grassroots level shared their experiences in the one day seminar.
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...
