In Jammu and Kashmir, for ages, ‘the elites’ – have thrived and progressed, generating wealth and monopolizing power, while the huge population of social, political and economic underdogs have remained...

The wanton loot and plunder of the state’s forest wealth is common place knowledge and one could say without any fear of contradiction that every inhabitant of this God-forsaken lad...

The amount and extent of institutionalized corruption in Jammu and Kashmir quite reasonably justifies its position among top in the list of most-corrupt states. Not a single day here passes...

Like elsewhere in the world, other day World Environment Day was celebrated here in the Valley as well. And as happens on such occasions, dozens of functions were held here...

That rampant corruption is the main cause of concern and major irritant for the common masses here is known to all. But thus far besides the verbal assurances about ridding...

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

“When people cannot adequately speak or write their language, there arise strong men to speak it for them – and at them.” When linguist Wendell Johnson said this, he was...

Kashmir has all along been a major destabilizing factor in the bilateral relations between India and Pakistan, as well as between New Delhi and Srinagar. Even as the history has...

Sitting by a campfire listening to a song of Bushmen somewhere deep in the Kalahari Desert, an American Anthropologist William Ury thought he recognized a word or two… When the...

Notwithstanding that Kashmir has a huge potential as far as tourism is concerned and if harnessed properly this sector could certainly change the economic profile of the entire state, however,...