While a concerted effort is being made to muzzle the voices of dissent – otherwise the life blood of democracy – the institutions, which were until recently seen as great...

Not a single day passes without some kind of protests being held at some or the other place in the Valley.  These protests and agitations in Kashmir – not only...

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. WMF...

That so many educated Kashmiri youth have joined militancy here of late is a big cause of worry, not for New Delhi and its security establishment only but for one...

For the past over a decade now, successive governments here have been very vocal about bringing in “peace through development”. From the development economics point-of-view, the standpoint that better economy...

Jammu and Kashmir has been lavishly bestowed with a wealth of resources by nature, which if exploited judiciously and scientifically could unburden people from seemingly unavoidable dependence on neighbouring states...

In October 1962, the two giant superpowers of the time stood on the verge of war when Soviet Union tried to place nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba, ninety...

The ongoing row At the Aligarh Muslim University over the portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, besides so many other things, is also a pointer of bigger malaise that has come...

It’s very sad that a poor tourist, who certainly had nothing to do with the politics concerning Kashmir, has fell to the stones of an unruly mob at Narbal. Previously...

Whatever is happening in Kashmir is really worrisome. And scary too, because not a single day passes off without people getting killed here. While the encounters between the combatants –...