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by Gopalkrishna Gandhi In a venue known for its liberal and secular ambience, the veteran columnist LK Sharma was bluntly told by a gentleman:...

The Modi government’s hardline strategy in Kashmir is a straight lift from the approach suggested by National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in 2010. Speaking...

by Masood Hussain For a greenhorn reporter, it was quite an excitement to sit on a protest in September 1989 outside the main gate of...

Irtif Lone Indeed, the other name for life is resilience. It is the resilience of a seed that lets it grow into a beautiful flower,...

Irtif Lone On 6th September 2014, I was standing on the banks of river Tawi, looking at the gushing waters and probably what one calls...

Irtif Lone Last week, when the leaders from Kashmir’s separatist lobby met the Pakistan High Commissioner in context to the India-Pakistan foreign Secretaries meet. Indian...

Irtif Lone Last week after I finished writing my column, I wished I had started writing early and given myself enough time to bring in...

Irtif Lone On 15th of August, like on any other day, Kashmir seeks Independence.  Some 68 years before, after decades of being a British colony...

Irtif Lone Everything is fair in love and war, is an old adage which we have been hearing since the times I remember. In times...

Irtif Lone The rhetoric has started, and is probably gaining the momentum. India is taking off the veil of being a secular state. They have...

Irtif Lone Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar which starts with the sighting of crescent and marks the start of one month...

Irtif Lone For some time it was still and peaceful. The lights had started to twinkle on the heights of Zabarvan. Traffic on the roads...

Irtif Lone No, I am not a doctor. I am just an attendant, who has spent the last week in this hospital. And, in fact...

Irtif Lone We finished our coffee. But the conversation had just started to pick up. It was getting dark outside. So, his family headed to...

Irtif Lone On a beautiful spring evening I meet this guy at a Coffee Shop. We had met before at an interview for which both...