Chadoora 26
Located on the peripheries of Srinagar city Chadoora presents a sorry picture seeking attention of its representatives. Safwat Zargar talks to people across ideologies...
Ah Elections!
On Tuesday as results started to pour in there were more surprises and shockers than revelations in one of the most closely fought state...
Surprising Chenab
With BJP winning 4 out of 6 seats from Muslim majority Chenab Valley the shock is palpable in the region that remains divided on...
Mayor Making
As independents dominated the outcome of Srinagar’s lowest-polled municipal election, the politics reinvented the past to create a future that is in a sharp...
Plough, Pen and a Hand
As the election season draws near, ruling NC and opposition PDP are busy in creating chances of coalition with Congress. The election symbols of...
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Throughout his political career that started from Sanjay Gandhi days, Azad has contested twice from J&K. In 1977, he contested from Inderwal for the...
Discordant Tones
Two years after the BJP and PDP entered into polar alliance, nothing much has moved on the Kashmir front. After 2016 unrest and recent...
A Defeat and A Boycott
Why NC lost the game and how the separatist boycott influenced the outcome, an analysis by Nazir Hussain
On May 7th after the last vote...
The Final Franchise
With total 213 candidates in the fray for the fifth and the final phase of polling in 20 Assembly seats of Jammu and Kashmir...
Mufti’s Last Gamble?
After giving PDP the highest ever seats in a hung house, nobody knows why there is inordinate delay in setting up of a government...
Pass It On
Politics has ceased to be a social service. It is a formal profession now. A generation is keen to upscale what it acquires. An...
Torn Between Loyalties
South Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency has created precedence in the electoral history as it would go to polls in three phases. Shams Irfan visited...
Campaign Whispers
With massive tensions at ground zero, PDP and Congress candidates pitted for the South Kashmir Lok Sabha seat are busy in a lethargic, low-cost,...
Centre Fold
One killing, one per cent increase in overall votes and boycott marked Srinagar elections as fate of 14 candidates is to be decided. Is...
Battling For Lal Chowk
With both NC and PDP busy in pre-poll rhetoric, their rival BJP’s lady dentist is going door-to-door in Amira Kadal. Safwat Zargar reports
Among the...