Acquitted, A Generation Later
NIA has established that Liyaqat Shah was framed by Delhi Police and has suggested action against a few. But how the government will give...
The Diplomatic Secret
An American diplomat whom India calls the mother of Hurriyat Conference, was recently in the middle of an espionage drama. But in 1991, this...
Connection Lost…
The recent assembly election results had more shockers than surprises for contestants. Saima Bhat tries to find out the shortest way to a voter’s...
In Governor’s Raj
Political parties have failed to cobble up a governing relationship. With governor N N Vohra finally promulgating his rule in J&K, the state expects...
From Bullet to Ballot
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says people of Jammu and Kashmir have rejected bullet to choose the ballot, he is not mistaken. Safwat...
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....
