Compromise #1?
Ruling PDP accommodated miner lawmakers of its partner to block non-locals in mining sector. A day later, it faced an embarrassing situation when the...
Southern Focus
As Kashmir assembly begins its stormy budget session, the opposition is united in disorder. The objective is to have some impact on Chief Minister’s...
Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru)
Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru)
(1928-1996)
When Abdul Razak Mir (Bachru), who fought on MUF ticket from Kulgam, would attract huge crowds during canvassing: courtesy his brand...
Cowed Down
Heterogeneity in J&K’s demography has vast scope for differences and many way-outs to settle. But the ‘beef crisis’ that the right-wingers triggered by initially...
SARFAESI
Banks have been arguing for various years now that lack of SARFAESI has compromised their confidence in being liberal in J&K. Taking the view...
Enjoy Thy Lord!
Politicians in Kashmir not only enjoy the privilege to frame laws for the masses but impunity to mend them! With negligible conviction rate politicians...
Lost in Translation
Looking for a government job, get a degree first. Want to make laws and rule the state, fret not. You can be a cabinet...
Have a Nice Stay Sir!
Despite enjoying freebies worth crores, lawmakers drain the system by turning defaulters when it comes to pay back. Syed Asma takes a look at...
Keeping Them Safe
It takes Rs 100 annually to secure VVIPs in a cash starved state. Safwat Zargar reports the largesse of a system that scrooge on...
Travesty of travel
The state still caught in monarch practice of durbar move is safe-haven for its movers and shakers who often fly up by creating void...
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
The legislature is gradually becoming an expensive institution as lawmakers, cutting across party lines, use their position to dictate their costs for the system...
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...
