In Bits and Pieces
With the parties busy fielding candidates, stitching alliances and readying for enigmatic ‘friendly contests’, the dominant feeling in the air is to deny space...
Calmly Clueless?
With Kashmir’s grave crisis already into second month at an exorbitant cost, the government is waiting its Delhi ally to give it a confidence...
Riots changed J&K politics
Journalist Ved Bhasin has completed six decades in active journalism, but the editor of Kashmir Times has had an equal proximity to politics. Politics,...
Lalla Rookh Debate
People talking about Kashmir are so ignorant about the place that they presume most of nearly seven million people inhabiting the vale are dependent...
Reclaiming Legacy
Sajjad Lone’s plunge to reclaim the legacy he inherited from his father has changed the contours of contest in border Kupwara. It is no...
Things fall Apart!
The losers in the recent LS polls still claim of undergoing introspection but some leaders spill the beans against their party leaders in the...
Wages And Beyond
Legislature is gradually becoming an expensive institution as lawmakers, cutting across party lines, use their position to dictate their costs for the system they...
Ahmedabad First
by Khursheed Wani
A day after Delhi’s special representative for Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma concluded his second visit to the embattled state, the security establishment began...
Dialogue Details
Atal Behari Vajpayee’s government is credited by everybody for the talks he initiated with Kashmir’s moderate Hurriyat Conference. Barring a courtesy call on Vajpayee,...
One Verses All
Despite some separatists calling it a non-issue, Geelani’s election boycott made Omar to seek New Delhi’s intervention to bypass Kashmir for mandatory NOTA option...
The New Grapevine
Nearly ten months after the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state was stripped of its special status and downgraded into two union territories on August...
BJP’s Shadow Survival In Kashmir?
Ruling Jammu and Kashmir remotely since 2018 and resorting to a series of interventions, in the last five years, that changed the erstwhile state...
Whither Mufti doctrine?
On the first death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Delhi indicated that he will become the second posthumous Padma Vibushan from J&K ever. Honours...
A Distant Dream
While the talk of reunification of rival factions of Hurriyat is gaining ground, there are many people within who oppose the move to serve...
‘You can’t get intelligence about what is inside the mind of a suicide bomber’
In the wake of Lethpora attack and the subsequent development, Saima Bhat interviewed A S Dulat, the former RAW Chief and one of the...