A Daughter’s Fight
Fourteen years after a chemist from Rawalpora was taken by army and subjected to enforced disappearance, his daughter held his funeral-in-absentia. Fighting twists, turns,...
Gilgit Games
Perhaps for the first time after partition, Kashmir dispute is emerging as a major issue for Pakistan. Beijing is seeking guarantees for making substantial...
Vohra, Again
Mufti Sayeed’s demise instantly stripped his cabinet colleagues of their portfolios and powers as Governor takes over. With ministerial and personal staff struggle to...
My Dear Partymen…
Mufti Sayeed made a brief, unscheduled public speech during his fateful city tour on December 22. Two days ahead of it, he presided over...
Investment In Change
Investors are always on lookout for possibilities in a market. But in flood-devastated Kashmir that saw lot of investment across the sectors, three entrepreneurs...
Ration Ruckus
With government mulling to implement the Food Security Act by early next year, parts of state have risen up in protest, even consuming a...
Talk Walks, Finally
As Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue emerges from the ruins of Composite Dialogue between Delhi and Islamabad, Masood Hussain analyses the surprising resumption of engagement and...
Reserved to Rot
Ideally, under-privileged and backward category population should get one chance to improve its mobility. But the politically motivated reservation set-up over the years has...
Killing In Classroom
An examiner’s wrong evaluation pushed an engineering aspirant to suicide. A re-evaluation posthumously identified the mistake. Syed Asma reports about how peer pressures, systemic...
Packaged Oddly
Prime Minister Modi’s Rs 80068 crore TAMIER package has its intent rooted in the heart of the right-wing. But how will J&K use this...
Undoing Vajpayee?
Hopes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will land in Srinagar and revive the moribund processes ailing Kashmir proved a hoax. Hosts are frustrated and...
Consolidate Now
Baglihar is the game changer in J&K’s energy sector but the gain would go down the drain if the policymakers do not affect the...
Host Mufti, Guest Modi
Prime Minister’s weekend Kashmir visit is not an ordinary one. Excited over Leh polls victory, his arrival follows his parivaar using the cow issue...
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...
Straining Forests
From once a self-sufficient timber producer to a major importer, Kashmir’s forest tale has many chapters written in red. Shakir Mir reports the gulf...
