Uncomfortable Questions?
While people were seeking answers in the wake of the horrific Lethpora attack, the subsequent situation threw up more questions for Delhi and Srinagar,...
Chaotic Politics
With many politicians keen to fight for Jammu and Kashmir’s leadership and are in the process of either strengthening their base or creating their...
Reconnecting South
Post-Burhan Wani, Mehbooba Mufti attempted breaking the ice by visiting two families deep South. Will it help the unionists to reconnect with a region...
JRL Survives
They might have issued a record number of strikes in 2018, but the JRL affiliates suggest that the survival of the newfound platform, despite...
A Fall and a Rise
It was interesting to see a political party getting undone within months of losing power and the fragmented political landscape of Kashmir witnessing the...
Doomed PDP?
Between its decision of pulling down Azad government in 2008 and joining hands with BJP in 2014, the PDP has lost the middle-ground that...
Re-Modified Wave
In anticipation of the general elections as the ruling BJP lost assembly polls in five states, contested on basis of Ram Janam Bhoomi and...
Backyard Democracy
Five of the nine phase-Panchayat polls are over. The exact details of the interesting stories would be known once the exercise concludes, reports Umar...
Designing a Disruption
When the Governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved Kashmir’s dormant assembly, minutes after two claims attempted landing in his Raj Bhawan at Jammu, it was...
Mayor Making
As independents dominated the outcome of Srinagar’s lowest-polled municipal election, the politics reinvented the past to create a future that is in a sharp...
‘Conquering’ Srinagar
Political parties were ‘uninterested’ in the elections for one or the other reason, so were the voters. Finally, when the process threw up ‘winners’,...
2018 Municipal Polls In Brief
The 4-phase elections for the municipal bodies across Jammu and Kashmir concluded peacefully. Authorities had made unprecedented security arrangements that also involved the safety...
A Silent Election
As Kashmir’s two main political parties stayed away from the polls and the militants are tactically enforcing a boycott, 392 of 624 municipal wards...
Blood, Boycott, Democracy
In a bid to see democracy restored at ground zero, Delhi skipped concerns of Kashmir’s two main political parties and ignored an overwhelming situation,...
A ‘Ghost’ Market
In 2003, the Mufti government took over SKIMS, the Gupkar Nursing Home and Dr Ali Jan Shopping Complex from a Trust that the National...
