The Kashmir Interlocution
The interlocutors came, talked to some people and went on to submit recommendations to the government for solving the Kashmir issue, adding to an...
High Profile VISITS
Two high-profile visits to Kashmir, by Jhon McCanin and Margaret Sekaggay, this past year were a display of how differently states and multilateral bodies...
National Conference
Be it the death of Haji Yousuf, sacking of Mustafa Kamal or partial removal of AFSPA, the ruling National Conference managed to stay in...
The Impunity Law
A colonial era law adopted and applied by the Indian Parliament to J&K in 1990 kept taking its toll – political as well as...
The Muslim Clergy
Conversions to Christianity, the idea of reopening liquor shops and cinema halls and government funding for Madrass as were controversies the clergy and the...
Congress Making Inroads
The state unit of the Congress arty was busy expanding youth membership and Rahul Gandhi’s visit was used to trump the party fortunes among...
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...
Google in Kashmir
It was that kind of a high profile visit, by the cutting edge technical team of the world’s best known brand and search engine,...
Harud ‘Litfest’
A ‘controversial’ litfest was ‘cancelled’ after the best known Kashmiri authors refused to participate and endorsed an open letter questioning its motives. The proposed...
Visa Power
The US visa regime is grilling and sometimes problematic for some, but hundreds of Kashmiris visit America every year. The leaked US embassy confidential...
What happens at Pugwash?
Pugwash has always been a closed door affair since it first started to host voices from India, Pakistan and Kashmir at different venues across...
Filthy Game
US diplomatic cables revealed by Wikileaks unveiled many hidden aspects related to the politics around Kashmir and intermittent dialogue between different stakeholders. These cables...
Matching Concerns
Cables related to security concerns as viewed by the US embassy in New Delhi reveal that the American concerns matched those India publicly harped on....
Kashmiris First, Kashmir Later
Facilitating people to people contact between two parts of divided Kashmir is a part of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s vision of a ‘soft...
Leaking Diplomacy
That it is a huge embarrassment for the State Department is an old story. The US cables leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, apart...
