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...

As happens always, this Eid too witnessed a boom time for the business community in the Valley. And as has been the precedence here, the business people did everything they...

The other day, concerned authorities on the directions of Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar raided a pharmacy at Karan Nagar and found the shocking revelation that the said pharmacy as been operating...

In the wake of raging debate over stone-pelting and its relevance vis-à-vis resistance sentiment, so many young people who are instigated to throw stones, must put their act together. Those...