Blame it on unresolved political questions, the exercise of power and authority has all along been very problematic here. Needless to say that in an overly politicized situation wherein huge...

Politicians have a knack for saying one thing and doing something else. They master the skills of claiming one position while actually occupying another. This difference of their positions becomes...

“Watching violent images of war and strife elsewhere in the world always invoked a sense of pride and invulnerability in me. ‘Thank God,’ I would say, ‘I am the citizen...

Years and decades of systematic disenfranchisement and constant bullying have sowed the seeds of anger and aversion so deep into the popular psyche here that the situation here remains ever-volatile....

The biggest challenge to the ordinary Kashmiri’s memory and intellect is to locate things which the political class – the two regional majors of National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party...

History is witness that any political group when it is formed in the face of stiff opposition, has to fight every inch of its way. Armed a sufficient degree of...

It goes without saying that Jammu and Kashmir has been face to face with a severe social and economic decline here. In post-2002 Jammu and Kashmir, the state governments have...

With autumn having set in, the power problems are making a steady return to haunt the people here. And indeed if the current discharge in various rivers of the state...

In a 1970 publication – ‘The Great Conspiracy Trial’ – author Jason Epstein records an anecdote about the trial of the Chicago Seven: Over the weekend some 150 lawyers from...

Developed West: If you are driving a car and you hear a siren – of an ambulance or a police car – you simply pull up to the side to...