Jockeying for Power
by Afreen Anjum Khan
When the Home Minister Amit Shah made a historic declaration in the parliament on August 5, many here thought he had...
Hyped Initiatives?
Between an over-hyped political outreach and a curtain raiser for investment in Jammu and Kashmir, there was a ‘dirty picture’ and a radical revelation...
Bukhari Begins?
With three former Chief Ministers’ still incarcerated, businessman politician Syed AltafBukhari regrouped a section of the political class to defreeze the politics in Kashmir’s...
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...
The Disempowering Debate
Integration and subsequent bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir is the major happening in contemporary history with consequences within and outside India. But the work...
The Political Collapse?
History will remember 2019 as the rough year for politics in Kashmir. For the first time, both the faces of Kashmir’s ideologically driven politics...
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...
Political Winter
With the Lt Governor GC Murmu administration hunting for alternative accommodation to Kashmir’s detained political class, the winter chill is expected to freeze the...
Briefly In Jail
A group of 13 women who planned the first protest against August 5 decisions spent almost 30 hours in jail and were set free...
Election On Kashmir
Kashmir may not have any election anytime soon. But BJP made the abrogation of Article 370 and Kashmir such a powerful issue during election...
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...
‘Out Of Circulation’
Almost 42 days after he was restricted to his Gupkar home, the government finally arrested DrFarooq Abdullah formally under Public Safety Act. The arrest...
A Jinxed Palace?
Overlooking the Dal Lake, a Gothic monster has proven to be inauspicious for everyone — from its builders to those interested in it post-partition. After...
Between Trump And Malik
Everybody who is anybody in Jammu and Kashmir has been talking about the twin axis of the Kashmir – the internal, involving the issues...
Whither PDP?
It has been more than a year now that the PDP is losing wickets almost on a daily basis. Shams Irfan talks to the people who...
























