Saffron Games
As heightened communal tensions are helping it somehow keep it’s vote bank intact in Jammu, the rightwing is a joint family in Kashmir to...
Cowed Down
Heterogeneity in J&K’s demography has vast scope for differences and many way-outs to settle. But the ‘beef crisis’ that the right-wingers triggered by initially...
Tara-rara
Considered to be more than a love story between Tara Chand and his aide Kewal Krishan Sharma, the two fell apart in 2013 summer....
The Cow Divide
For nearly 200 years, beef was a whisper and not the talk. Then, hearths would go up in flames with homes and the human...
Jama’at: What Next?
Jama’at is neither in a state of decline nor is it facing any existential crisis. Scholar Iymon Majid writes the Islamist party is in...
Lady Power
After unfurling Pakistani flag and later addressing a Jamat ud Dawa rally on phone, police have booked Kashmir’s ‘iron lady’. But she is not...
A Backward Push?
In the din of neutralizing J&K’s exclusivity in the Indian federation, a right-wing think tank has finally sought judicial intervention questioning Presidential powers. Syed...
Khalnayak’s Narrative
By boycotting the official Martyrs Day function, the ruling BJP created a historic precedence that shocked everybody. But Bilal Handoo says the rightwing party...
Neta Secrets
As two tainted congress men fight it out in public revealing their worst kept secrets, Kashmir watches in silence. Syed Asma reports whatever is...
Ghar Wapsi?
PDP led government is seemingly unwilling to offer them space. Renewed militancy too does not care much about them. And India’s top spymaster A...
“I always say that Jammu should be considered from Lakhanpur, Poonch and up to...
Minister CAPD Choudhary Zulfikar Ali who represents Darhal in state legislative assembly tells Saima Bhat that Jammu is developed at the cost of Pir...
Shabir Shah’s Mandela Days
A S Dulat managed Kashmir as IB’s top guy and later RAW boss. He has made sensational revelations about events, politics and persons in...
“I trust my god. Another flood won’t hit our state. You should also trust...
Sukhnandan Kumar, minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control tells Saima Bhat that people of Kashmir should have sumps or water tanks to store...
Triangular Tensions
Apparently a changed Islamabad policy towards Kashmir is witnessing new regrouping within the Hurriyat diversity. But will these unity efforts make a sustainable sense,...
Red Shift
Last fortnight, NC headquarter survived a conflagration. Bilal Handoo revisits the party’s history revolving round its headquarters that shifted from one bank of the...
