Business of Politics
It is been argued since long that politics and business are hand in glove, but in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, they are...
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...
Wages And Beyond
Legislature is gradually becoming an expensive institution as lawmakers, cutting across party lines, use their position to dictate their costs for the system they...
Democracy’s Kings
Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what the politics can offer...
A Tradition Survives
The ‘bribe for berth’ case involving Kashmir’s first family is nothing new. It is just a standard practice of how politics has operated here...
Lawmakers Grieved Graves
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 was just a routine day of business in the history of state assembly. The issue of unmarked graves dominated Day...
Stop, Don’t Slap Her
The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir gave his ascent recently to a law against domestic violence six years after the Indian Parliament passed a...
Sure sour pie
Couples resort to court marriages, mostly, to overcome parental dissent. However, the notary registration of marriages, which is only valid in J&K is also...
Sangh On Sale
The BJP won a historic mandate in Jammu - 11 of the 87 seats in 2008 state elections after enforcing an economic blockade on...
Lawless Law
While the state government has been calling for repealing of AFSPA, it has generally evaded debates on PSA over which it has all the...
Living Torture
The government has scuttled a bill aimed at preventing torture by police and punishing the perpetrators. Khursheed Wani analyses why the state is reluctant...
A law of lawlessness
With debate over revocation of AFSPA getting a lot of media attention, Kashmir Life looks into the law believed to be the source of gross human rights violations in J&K.
Bills in the bin
Most of the private member bills introduced in legislature fail to turn into a law for want of numbers. That does not mean the...
Blood For Booty
Macchil murders add one more chapter to the bloody history of fake encounters in Kashmir, where greed for medals and rewards feeds on human...
Legislating, first time
Some 30 first-timers made it to the legislative assembly in 2008. Hamidullah Dar talks to some of them about their maiden experiences in the...
