Rediscovering Party Democracy
Often accused of promoting personal fiefs in politics, parties in Kashmir have started holding elections internally. With results mostly favouring the family members, the...
The Passage to India
Six politicians from J&K will join the Indian parliament this week. Eighty four have been elected in the last 14 parliamentary elections. Forget about...
Where Are Separatists?
This was the signature tune of Delhi’s electronic media for its coverage of Kashmir’s devastating floods: where are the separatists. Safwat Zargar trekked across...
Jamaat Jammed
As the Jamaat-e-Islami workers are imprisoned across Jammu and Kashmir after the party was banned by the Home Ministry, forcing lot many to go...
Unending Fault Lines
The desperation to retain the turf created a situation that PAGD candidates at various places are contesting against the parties that make the alliance....
‘Without Statehood Ladakhis Are Neither Safe Nor Secure’
Senior Congress leader and former minister, Asgar Ali Karblaie, who is co-chairman of a joint Leh-Kargil alliance tell Hilal Shah that the most strategic...
Article 370: The Verdict
Four years after political parties and concerned citizens flocked to the Supreme Court challenging the reading down of Article 370, and the bifurcation of...
Old Games Old Players
The year 2012 was a year of political skullduggery with the majority of leadership cutting across political ideologies in Jammu and Kashmir playing the...
A Septuagenarian’s Marathon
Within hours after taking over, Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed dominated prime time TV without a break. Re-evaluating the “controversial” decisions and statements, R S...
Exams, Eyes & Politics
With ‘dead eyes’ in background and at the peak of a debate over education when parents drove more than 80,000 students to the examination...
Holiday Politics
by Masood Hussain
In last more than 30 years, the abnormal situation gave people so much of time to stay indoors that the significance of...
Kejriwal’s Kashmir?
Jammu and Kashmir was offering the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders always an idea to get the best of the newspaper front page. As...
Dissimulating the Pain?
The voter is seemingly angry and frustrated in Jammu, the erstwhile Nagpur of right-wing. Will this lead to a change in the region’s political...
My Dear Partymen…
Mufti Sayeed made a brief, unscheduled public speech during his fateful city tour on December 22. Two days ahead of it, he presided over...
Afternoon Annulment
Slightly more than 25 months later, BJP pulled out of coalition at a time when PDP was busy in governance affairs in Srinagar. Though...
