Kashmir: Operation Blame Game
Amid a charged Parliament session dominated by political posturing and nationalist rhetoric, the April 22 Pahalgam massacre and subsequent Operation Sindoor became the centre...
Kashmir Assembly: From Chaos to Conscience
In a break from routine discord, Jammu and Kashmir lawmakers set aside political rivalries to deliver a unified, sombre response to a deadly massacre,...
Jammu Kashmir: A Budgeted Session?
Expected to be stormy, the 21-day budget session in Jammu evoked old legislative memories, but lawmakers felt constrained in voicing the street-level issues and...
Kashmir: A House Demolition
Constituted within months after the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State adopted its constitution in 1957, the legislative council became history when the Lok Sabha...
Kashmir Assembly: Battling Memory
As the top BJP leader resorted to derogatory remarks against the 1931 martyrs, the Jammu Kashmir assembly’s motion of thanks on LG’s address got...
Kashmir: Stormy Session?
Budget apart, the 3-week Jammu session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly is expected to be significant and noisy, reports Syed Shadab Ali...
Kashmir’s New PSA Debate
Two generations later, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) has pledged to do away with the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act it...
The Jail In Neighbourhood
As the UT administration shifted the detained political class from a Boulevard Hotel to the Lawmakers’ Hostel, apparently for the winters, their families were...
Frozen Photos
With only BJP contesting the Block Development Council (BDC) polls, the politics of Jammu and Kashmir is frozen in time. Though the government indicated...
The Report Card
As Jammu and Kashmir has started the process of sending a new group of representatives to the new Lok Sabha, Muhammad Younis offers certain...
School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...
35A vs Ethnic Flooding?
Cutting across the ideological divide, political parties in Kashmir have found a common cause in Article 35(A) of the Constitution of India that right-wingers...
Unity in diversity?
They were managing the House in such a way that it was least newsy and quite boring both in questions and debates. But when...
Rediscovering the State
Insisting that the notion of representative democracy has changed and the fundamental shifts have taken place in the governance systems, Dr Haseeb Drabu was...
SARFAESI Primer
A law that allows banks to take over the mortgaged collaterals in case of willful defaults has taken Kashmir by storm after a division...
