“Autonomy in a cone”
Arshid MalikJust outside our rented apartment in Jammu, a young boy sells ice cream. The presence of his ice cream tricycle is made conspicuous...
Dynastic Politics
Arshid Malik
With the death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, another spate of dynastic rule is in the making, right to the alley of the Abdullahs....
The Pedagogy of Oppression
Arshid Malik
The people; men, women, young and old, have braved all kinds of atrocities and most of the times for just expressing their opinions...
Cry Baby Cry
Arshid Malik
Ex-Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir is doing a good job sitting in the opposition while creating a ruckus over almost every move...
A Battle Lost
Arshid Malik
On the auspicious occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, a woman in downtown area of Srinagar City set herself ablaze after her husband and in-laws allegedly...
Encapsulated exemption
Arshid MalikI was lucky to be outside Kashmir when Salman Khan starrer “Dabaang” was released for it was a movie worthy of being watched...
The Lab Rats
Even though medical science has galloped at an overwhelming speed eventually increasing the average life span of an individual, there seems to be reason...
An Industry of Violence
ARSHID MALIK
Back in the year 1998 I chanced upon a discussion with an elderly man from Kashmir who had been part and witness to the ever changing mood
Back in the year 1998 I chanced upon a discussion with an elderly man from Kashmir who had been part and witness to the ever changing mood
Muslimizing India
Arshid Malik
Barely five minutes after the Supreme Court of India had dismissed Yaqoob Memon’s final petition and had stuck with the verdict of “hanging...
DPS hyper-controversy
Arshid Malik
The recent hyper-controversy about the dress worn by a female teacher of Delhi Public School, Athwajan Byepass has catapulted into a major “debate”...
A plague of sorts
Arshid Malik
Kashmir is a very conservative society – I am forced to say that since I have minutely observed its structure and constituents. I...
Chaotic Rhythms
Arshid Malik
Kashmir conflict is a dangerous mix of political, geographic, religious and economic factors effectuating an interplay of a multitude of actors, some of...
Meal deal
Arshid MalikI sincerely don’t know what is with us Kashmiris, we just don’t know how to survive without rice and meat. Where ever we...
Whiplash
Arshid Malik
While the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the latter region especially, voted in whatever numbers for a democratically elected government they got a...
Of Tables Turned
I have a confession to make. I never learnt multiplication tables beyond the table of five when I was a kid. I grew up...
