Amit Shah, Padshah!
BJP’s over-ambitious plan to emerge the single largest party in J&K is an intelligent ideation. It has unnerved both the unionists and separatists as...
Second Innings
With power as the target, government employees don neta caps post-retirement to restart “public service” while enjoying impunity for the past. Safwat Zargar dwells...
Big Brother Syndrome
With Congress and NC busy drafting strategies after a historic rout in the Lok Sabha polls, PDP and BJP are desperate to consolidate the...
The Breakup
Is NC and Congress’ split before state assembly elections going to help PDP and BJP in Kashmir and Jammu respectively? Shah Abbas analyses how...
Kalvakuntla Kavitha
Mainstream political voices from Indian mainland are lately echoing the same views that plunged the Himalayan region in the quagmire of ‘unending conflict’. After...
Initiated Retrospectively
BJP’s day-one-controversy on Article 370 was just trial ballooning to address the galleries. R S Gull reports the right-wing party’s earlier exercise in which...
Ma’sarat of MINUTES
It all happened within an hour’s time. Masarat Alam, the man who spearheaded 2010 protests, was rearrested within minutes after court let him go. ...
Ali Mohammad Sagar
After National Conference (NC) met its Waterloo in parliamentary elections, revamp and reshuffle in the party was on cards. Though the head’s twitter is...
Restricted Growth?
With BJP in New Delhi the debate on Article 370 is back in focus. The argument this time is that it hampers development work...
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...
Budgam’s Clan War
Notwithstanding clan rivalries among Agha’s of Budgam that has divided NC’s traditional vote bank, it is the political indifference that will prove crucial for...
Vajpayee’s Kashmir
Bed-ridden Atal Bihari Vajpayee might be oblivious to the fact that, in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, NC and PDP made more references to...
Dare them to do it!
Eminent economist and intellectual Haseeb A Drabu responds to the Article 370 controversy that a junior minister in Narendra Modi’s council stirred on the...
My Friend Modi
Last week when Modi was sworn in as India’s PM, a small village in Budgam district jogged their memories to remember the man who...
“When liberal and secular Congress can hang Afzal Guru, I will not be surprised...
President Awani Ittehad Party (AIP) and MLA Langate, Er Abdul Rashid, after getting 22,090 votes in the Baramulla constituency in the last LS Elections,...