Criminally Correct
Arshid Malik
A few weeks ago some people (official designates) visited our home and did a head count and noted down names, age and gender...
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...
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...
A Schizoid Kashmir
Arshid Malik
I love to experiment with words, especially turning scientific and technological terms into adaptive versions that apply to common human lives. It is...
Patriotically Jinxed
Arshid Malik
The cost of “war” in Kashmir has been “intense” for all the parties involved. I am using the term “war” in the conceptual...
Terminated
Arshid Malik
“Kashmir Imbroglio”, “Kashmir Issue”, The Kashmir Problem”, “Conflict in Kashmir”, “Kashmir Insurgency”, “Militancy in Kashmir”, “The Plebiscite Issue of Kashmir” – Kashmir has...
IA’s commotional commentary
Arshid Malik
“Denied: Failures in accountability for human rights violations by security force personnel in Jammu and Kashmir”is the title of latest report of Amnesty...
The unfinished sentence
Arshid Malik
Camera Obscura: A woman married and with children, was found hanging by the ceiling a week ago, news agencies here in Kashmir reported....
I am not a leader
Arshid Malik
The Fight: To be or not to be is no longer the question, not for Kashmir and its people. We have been fighting...
Fault Lines
Arshid Malik
Underground: Kashmir, geologists say, rests atop a web of active geological faults. The valley, scientists say, “lies on the boundary of two colliding...
Cracking The Whip
Arshid Malik
The government has not only decided to crack the whip on mass copying in Kashmir but has actually dealt severely with people involved...
Our Social Contraceptive
Arshid Malik
The Drama:
Kashmiri – on a person-based sociological pivot- is perhaps another word for a slicklyconservative. My widespread discussions/interactions with the public in general...
Monarchs of Democracy
Arshid Malik
“Where is Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, when his people need him the most?” I quizzed one of...
“Kashmir Calling”
Arshid Malik
Ghoulishness has descended upon Kashmir once again, with the killing of a youth in Tral recently. Whatever versions of the “story” the police...
Return of the natives
Arshid Malik
Flood. The term “flood” sounded so archival till the September 2014 floods woke us up to the resounding fact that nature once tempered...