Politics And AFSPA
With five states in India approaching elections, the debate over partial withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in parts of Jammu...
Respect Childhood
For two days in the lower court premises of Srinagar, there were crowds desperately trying to have a look at three kids who cops...
Sleeping Giant?
Twenty years. A sliver of time in the grand scheme of things, perhaps. But for some, twenty years can be formative. They can be...
Future Imperfect
because 2011 was a good one, it is no guarantee that 2012 will be a better one. So, we are already preparing for the...
Consumer Interest
Eid is round the corner and within days the market will have an impressive appetite for almost everything – the apparels, shoe-wear, food and...
[Mis]education in Kashmir
Kashmir’sMinister of EducationPeerzada Mohammad Sayed has said this week that Jammu and Kashmir has recorded approximately a 15% increase in the literacy during the...
What Slums?
The government has clarified that a proposed bill about ‘rehabilitation’ of slum dwellers likely to be tabled in the ongoing autumn session of the...
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...
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...
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...
Amnesty And Justice
On the eve of Eid, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as a goodwill gesture announced his government had decided to give the youth involved in...
Dead Ain’t Silent
Last week, the state police in Vaijaypur solved a mystery. A widow had made an application to police that her nine-year-old son had gone...
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...
Volunteer Time
Kashmir having a massive destitute population is something that neither requires education nor a survey. Every lane and every village has got its own...
Education and Alienation
THE government policy of opening new colleges arbitrarily in rural areas is beginning to get exposed as another avenue for the ruling classes to...
