If there is anything all the different political leaders and groups here are unanimous about – it is the SACRIFICE, and its importance for their politics. This is why word...

In the year 2008 Srinagar and Leh (old) towns were included on the New York-based World Monuments Fund (WMF) watch-list of the 100 most endangered sites across the globe. That...

Any serious commentary on the politics of Kashmir tends to be disdainful of the political elite; and more than their ‘person’, of their politicizing the mundane for selfish ends. And...

With each passing day the situation in Kashmir seems going from bad to worse. While the BJP government at the Centre is busy with electioneering, its extension here – the...

Government’s decision of not allowing any sort of civilian movement on national highway, two days a week, and keeping it exclusively for convoy movement has angered all sections of the...

Journalists have been under threat for long. Getting hauled up by the police is routine. Getting beaten up by the security forces is usual. Getting caught in the crossfire is...

Humans are, by nature, programmed not to look squarely into the face of a tragedy. Gloom is unpopular and, as such, people have perfected the art of “out of sight,...

Living in today's ‘mediatized’ societies, the physical and political boundaries have lost their significance, at least in the sense that within no time information travels from one part of the...

Of the many developments that have become a fad thing here is the mushroom growth of residential colonies, shopping malls and other such business centres. As has always been the...

When East India Company started consolidating British imperial domain over India by the mid-eighteenth century, it was directly pitted against the Muslims who had been ruling India since the eleventh...