Ah Elections!
On Tuesday as results started to pour in there were more surprises and shockers than revelations in one of the most closely fought state...
Understanding Electors
As 28 of Kashmir’s 46 assembly seats improve their participation in the elections, academics and politicians interpret it differently. R S Gull analyses the...
BJP’s K-Mantras
If it can be done in UP why not in JK? The idea has inspired BJP’s think-tank and Modi close aide Amit Shah to...
Wrestling North
Among 16 assembly segments going for polls in the third phase, seven fall in the Baramulla district. Except Uri, BJP hasn’t fielded any candidate from...
Aspiration, Pledge, Vision and Manifesto
With nothing new to offer almost all the major political parties contesting in ongoing state assembly elections released their manifestos half-heartedly, Shah Abbas takes...
Migrant Mission
Desperate to repeat Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra in poll-bound Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir, BJP’s grand strategist and party president Amit Shah is...
It Is Opportunism, Stupid!
As hoards of politicians’ crossover and embrace groupings they stood against for, embarrassed commoners feel shocked. But ideologies being dead for a long time,...
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...
Floating On Hope
It took courage and creativity to transform plastic bottles, empty water-tanks, wood planks, mattresses etc, to float thousands of marooned people to safety. Safwat...
Elite driven!
Like air rescue teams who handpicked victims during recent floods Omar’s cabinet too fell for elite trap while deciding future of students across Kashmir....
Rs: 1000000000000 Setback!
The most distressing part of the crisis is not only that the entire business is smashed but the debilitating impact it has on the...
Theed Saviours
For helpless new-mothers who were rescued from G B Panth hospital and abandoned at Zeethyaar Mandir, trusting anybody was a gamble till they found...
Back To Roots
With the major business streets of Srinagar in Lal Chwok, Jawahar Nagar, Dalgate and Karan Nagar devastated by the historic flood, people see the...
We Shall Overcome
Held hostage by the deluge for days together inside a building near her Barbarshah residence in Srinagar, Durdana Bhat spins a moving tale of...
One Last Time
With elections round the corner, the assembly had a brief six-day autumn session. But it was unimpressive and unruly by all means, excepting that...
