Elections: Summer V/S Autumn
J&K witnessed an intensely contested election for Indian Parliament in 2014 summer. Despite floods, assembly elections will have the first of the five phases...
Enjoy Thy Lord!
Politicians in Kashmir not only enjoy the privilege to frame laws for the masses but impunity to mend them! With negligible conviction rate politicians...
Lost in Translation
Looking for a government job, get a degree first. Want to make laws and rule the state, fret not. You can be a cabinet...
Have a Nice Stay Sir!
Despite enjoying freebies worth crores, lawmakers drain the system by turning defaulters when it comes to pay back. Syed Asma takes a look at...
Keeping Them Safe
It takes Rs 100 annually to secure VVIPs in a cash starved state. Safwat Zargar reports the largesse of a system that scrooge on...
Travesty of travel
The state still caught in monarch practice of durbar move is safe-haven for its movers and shakers who often fly up by creating void...
Business of Politics
It is been argued since long that politics and business are hand in glove, but in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, they are...
Pass It On
Politics has ceased to be a social service. It is a formal profession now. A generation is keen to upscale what it acquires. An...
Wages And Beyond
The legislature is gradually becoming an expensive institution as lawmakers, cutting across party lines, use their position to dictate their costs for the system...
Democracy’s Kings
Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what the politics can offer...
MoDiwali
Amidst anticipation, hope and shut-down PM Modi stopped-over and left without sharing the pain of flood hit Kashmiris. Shah Abbas analysis the chain of...
Where Are Separatists?
This was the signature tune of Delhi’s electronic media for its coverage of Kashmir’s devastating floods: where are the separatists. Safwat Zargar trekked across...
“Why should I distance myself from BJP?”
His name surfaced scandalously in April this year as one of two BJP emissaries mandated to engage Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani. But far...
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...
