Through Blurred Glasses
In the 1990s the most common window through which Kashmir and its politics was looked at by people in India was perhaps Bollywood, courtesy the Sunny Deol starrer patriotic flicks intervalled by the popular...
CCA Welcome Govt’s Regulatory Steps, Pledge To Cooperate.
KL Desk
Srinagar
While welcoming the Jammu and Kashmir government’s efforts to regulate the functioning of coaching centers in the valley, the Coaching Centers’ Association (CCA) has called upon the authorities to extend the deadline for...
A concerned wizard
Zamir AhmadDr Sabahat Azeem is an extraordinary personality and interesting as well. Even without meeting him, you can have a fair idea of his multi-lateral persona by just looking at his CV. When you...
Picture Panic
Shakir Mir
Earlier this week social media exploded with outrage over pictures of mangled bodies of three young men lying near an orchard in Pattan. The amateur pictures, believed to be of the suspected militants,...
Back to Basin
Shams Irfan
One of the most haunting images from September 7, 2014 floods was of new mothers carrying their just born babies on narrow wooden planks while trying to escape nature’s wrath. And those who...
‘The Dirty Secret’
Bilal Handoo
Emergence of 20,000 graves within four years after masses mobilised must have haunted Kashmir. It still does, even when dementia has taken over. But who can forget those scribes hunting for scoops in...
Social Banking at JK Bank
by Dr Mir Mushtaq
Every second or third month and sometimes sooner, a sizeable amount is released by the government in favour of the underprivileged sections of the society. The amount is routed through the...
Flawed debatek
Zameer AhmadThe great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State - Murray N....
Trial by Pellets
By Tasavur Mushtaq
A frightening lull took over after Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s demise in AIIMS. For most of the 98 days during which Ms Mehbooba Mufti came out of her “consistent reluctance” the alliance has started...
Develop perseverance
Zamir AhmadThe politics of our land was never without surprises. Sometimes the surprises are gory and sometimes they are amusing. They are, however, seldom pleasant. A recent such amusing surprise turned the meaning of...
The Year of Insomnia
Tasavur Mushtaq
A midnight message in December woke me from deep sleep. With half shut eyes, a blurred image of 2016 appeared on my cellphone was surprising. For a moment, I wasn’t able to comprehend...
For A Greater Good
by Shujaat Bukhari
India and Pakistan cricket teams clashing in Bangalore after seven years, the relations between the two “bitter” neighbours are showing a discernible improvement. The sporting relations had also received a beating after...
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Zamir AhmedThe story of Kashmir has been of lies and conceit. Of hyped hopes and broken promises. Unabashed at that! The latest ingredient to the already stinking cauldron of deceit and pretense isthe much...
Ah! Democracy
Mohammad Raafi
Kashmir is on the boil again. What happened in Handwara on Tuesday is hardly unusual.
This has been a familiar story that Kashmir has lived and relived for the past many decades, especially since...
