Protesting against human rights violations or for that matter any genuine cause or concern is ok, but then one also needs to be careful about other people’s rights and sensibilities....

Now it is getting ugly, really ugly. The way some people here are using Kathua rape and murder case as a pretext for their unruly behavior has become a cause...

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...

Sigmund Freud has long back talked about people’s urge and need for looking for familiarity, and how easy it is for them to expect only the familiar outcomes even in...

Past nearly two and half decades of political turmoil in Kashmir have produced a whole new breed of political leadership – both in the separatist and the mainstream camps  --...

Hearing the Army Chiefs of Indian and Pakistan talking about peace has come as a fine note of music to the sub-continental ears which, of late, were deafened by bombs...

For now the ruling PDP may have climbed down on its rhetoric which threatened to bring down its coalition government with the BJP. But the issues that were flagged other...

It very rarely happens that the people of Kashmir and those in the mainland India are on the same page. Indeed it is tragedy of sorts that both sides have...

In an overly politicized atmosphere here ordinary Kashmiris have been given to believe that ‘they are the best’ in terms of talent, competence, and almost everything else. Without going into...

As has always been the case in the past, this time too shutting down businesses and remaining away from offices would yield nothing worthwhile. In fact history of past nearly...