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...
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...
