Silence is Criminal
Shams Irfan
What happened on 19th July, 2014 in Qaimoh, Kulgam was painful and criminal. But the way people in Kashmir, especially those seated in...
‘Inventing’ India
Muhammad Tahir
India’s standard official claim to Kashmir is tied to the instrument of accession signed in October 1947 by the fleeing Hindu ruler of...
13th July: Political Awakening
Mohammad Ismayeel
13th July, 1931, is most important day both historically as well as politically in the annals of Kashmir history. That day the struggle...
Power Politics in Kashmir
Mehraj ud din
Politics is the “art of the possibilities” and primarily works for the fruitful assistance of the society. Since times immemorial, politics is...
Cut It Lose
Enam Lone
Our inferiority complex largely derives its proteins from two things: first, our assumption that everyone is mindful of us; of our looks, activities,...
Saving GRACE
Imbisaat Makhdoomi
“Mei kya bolun yaar!” I really have no words to condole the National Conference and Mr Omar Abdullah for the historic loss they...
Jhelum Sinks
Abdul Rehman Ganai
In last two and half decades Kashmiris have almost forgotten the teaching of their ancestors by going on a rampage against the...
Virtual Activism
Danish Qureshi
“The dictionary meaning of activism is doctrine or practice of vigorous action or involvement as a means of achieving political or other goals,...
Right to Protest
Mudasir Ali Lone
An event organized and planned on Facebook got my attention as it was about Asiya and Neelofar, victims of Shopian double rape...
Intellectuals and Resistance
Mehraj Din
The indispensability of every struggle revolves around the collective intellectual pool of scholars evolved within the decades of long struggle and resistance. In...
United we stand, divided we fall!
Nazir Ul Islam
From the last couple of years Kashmir valley is witnessing an unprecedented surge in the religious activism, top ranked Islamic scholars belonging...
A forgotten Heritage
Mir Liyaqat Nazir
After the former J&K govt announced to reopen the historical Mughal road, it brought a ray of hope and joy on the...
Not a Holiday!
By: Shams Irfan
On 30th of April, just when the day’s sun was about to set on the vast horizon shadowing historic Jamia Masjid, a...
Politics of Slogans
Tasavur Mushtaq
Recently when I travelled down the south to cover election campaigning of two major political parties in the fray, the environs at few...
Kashmir in Dilemma?
Mehraj ud Din
My journey of identifying Kashmir as one of the biggest occupied territories in the world is not different from how others identify...