Seeking His Daughter
BJP has two items crucial to its vote bank politics: the beati (daughter) and the jawan (soldier). But Jammu is witnessing an interesting case....
School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...
Minting Manifestos
As the BJPDP alliance becomes history, the lawmakers from PDP, NC and independents enumerate the incidents and landmarks of the last three year’s rule...
Partners In Crime
Separated allies of doomed BJPDP coalition have resorted to a new wave of allegations and counter-accusations. But people are unlikely to fall prey to...
The FallOut
The BJPDP’s ‘Rainbow Alliance’ that was supposed to mend polar differences in politics; geography and ideology finally witnessed a shockingly humiliating fall that commoners...
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...
The New Outcasts?
Dramatic turns and twists at ground zero have squeezed the space for middle-rung workers of unionist political parties, forcing police to set up a...
JRL Has Evolved
by Khursheed Wani
After many years, a complete shutdown across the far and wide of Kashmir Valley was observed on May 21, on the anniversary...
A Neglected KPS
Babus and the cops are twin appendages of the same government, one managing the files and the other, the street. But KPS as a...
Understanding Stake-holding
It is very difficult to decipher why there are lot many political parties in Kashmir. But it is quite easy to link the proliferation...
The Next Geelani
With a frail Syed Ali Geelani passing the baton of his party to his longtime friend and follower Ashraf Sehrai, the talk in the...
Cracked House
From the alliance architect in 2014 to the sacked minister, three years later, Haseeb Drabu’s status downgrade tells a longer story about the mess...
Lineage of Dissent
A series of studies commissioned to understand various genetic disorders revealed stunning realities that genetically Kashmir gene pool is hugely closer to Turkish, Iranian...
PDP Sonrise
By Khursheed Wani
Winters have been quite happening days for Kashmir’s ruling Muftis’ for the past several years. They got a fractured mandate three years...
Dineshwar Effect?
With the separatist triumvirate taking an anti-talk stand, Prof Abdu Gani Bhat emerged out of margins to defend his meeting with Delhi’s point man...
