Out, finally
The investigation into the ‘examgate’ involving the state education minister’s foster son has forced Peerzada to resign. Tasavur Mushtaq reports.The state’s education minister Peerzada...
A War Within
Infighting and scandals seem to be chasing state congress, with its senior leaders hogging the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Tasavur Mushtaq reports
After...
Wronged by the system
A person in a Shopian village fought Panchayat elections to “seek justice” for his family which lost three young men to unnatural deaths. Mir...
Restructuring Resistance
Demands from constituents of the Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat to make the resistance grouping leaner, united and effective are growing. Its constituents are up in arms...
Changing Faces
Reports of an impending cabinet reshuffle continue to gain momentum. Kashmir Life examines who the problems and the possibilities are—for the ruling party’s future.The...
CHIEF MINISTER III
When he became the state’s youngest ever chief minister in the wake of 2008 unrest, little did Omar Abdullah know the complexity of the...
Building The PDP
The PDP after failing to pull the government down when it seemed easily possible has realized that the best course to stay is building...
‘My Ambition Is Under Control’
State Congress President Professor Saif Ud Din Soz in an Interview with Tasavur MushtaqKashmir Life: Why your old comrades in National Conference think that...
‘Deceit’ of Dialogue
New Delhi has often responded to political crises in Kashmir by renewing official and track-II dialogue with separatists. This approach slowly graduated from arbitrary...
A Tradition Survives
The ‘bribe for berth’ case involving Kashmir’s first family is nothing new. It is just a standard practice of how politics has operated here...
Mission Interlocutors’ Report
After a yearlong exercise of interacting with ‘all shades of opinion’ in Jammu and Kashmir, the three interlocutors employed by New Delhi in the...
WHO WAS YOUSUF SHAH?
The man, Syed Yousuf Shah, whose death in custody triggered a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir, had a very humble beginning. His personal...
10 Questions For The Chief Minister
Senior opposition leader and former deputy chief minster, Muzaffar Hussain Baig poses ten questions to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. As told to IKHLAQ QADRI,...
Indifference, Anger And Hope
Away from the ruckus in the state assembly and competing nationalistic politics around the discourse of clemency to Afzal Guru, his home in a...
Separated By Politics
Illiteracy and poverty are a deadly mix that makes people easy prey for politicians. In Sonawari, Majid Maqbool meets an aged couple whose marriage...
