Power Crisis – Scapegoating Won’t Help!
The tall claims made by the Union Territory administration regarding smooth power and water supply in Kashmir particularly during the month of Ramzan are falling flat as reports pouring in from different areas suggest the otherwise. People in Srinagar city have been complaining from the beginning of the holy month about the frequent power cuts […]
Aggressive vaccination drive is needed
The Union Territory administration has ordered closure of all educational institutions in Jammu and Kashmir till May 15 in the wake of dangerous surge in Covid-19 cases and virus related deaths. Though painful, the decision was inevitable as the pandemic, in its second phase, has shown more intensity and the entire country is in the […]
Risking public health
It goes without saying that it is the responsibility of the government and its concerned agencies to ensure semblance of law everywhere within the territorial parameters of its jurisdiction. Besides the big political and developmental issues, even everything mundane, if it concerns people, too is within the government’s mandate, enjoining upon it to ensure that […]
Wake-up call
It is confusion all around. And mind it, confusion always comes in with a sufficient degree of unaccountability – a bliss for the unscrupulous, who thrive and prosper in the absence of any checks on their tyranny and despotism. Blame it on the prolonged political turmoil, Kashmir has steadily morphed into a state wherein nobody […]
Respect Ramazan
The amount and extent of institutionalized corruption in Jammu and Kashmir quite reasonably justifies its position fairly high in the Transparency International’s list of corrupt states. Not a single day passes without some officials (only the small fry) landing in the anti-corruption agencies’ dragnets, although very rarely are the ones held for corruption convicted by […]
Attracting investment
For the past couple of years government has been saying that it is conducting an investors’ summit here so that investments pour into the Union Territory for its development, and create employment avenues for the youth. Wishing government all the success in wooing the businesses to invest in Jammu and Kashmir, there are a few […]
Impacts of violence
For those reeling under the age-old structures of deprivation and violence; illiteracy, hunger, disease and death; the misery and suffering is a shared experience. For them choice dangerously narrows down to where they no longer choose. They just have to live it. With all its physical, emotional and psychological burdens, what matters is the existence […]
Wake up to looming danger
On an average more than 500 cases of COVID-19 are detected and reported in Kashmir daily for the past several days. As this data, mind it, is only about the reported cases, common sense would suggest that the situation is far worse than what it seems or appears. In fact it is because of this […]
Tame them now
Where is the government? This might seem a weird question, but the qualifiers that people back up this query with makes one understand the message they want to convey. “If a government is not able to make butchers and grocers and milk-men to adhere to the rates fixed by it, one has a reason to […]
Mask-up and stay safe
Following the fresh spike in reported cases of Covi-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, the Lt Governor administration has ordered closure of schools unpto 9th class for two weeks and for 10th to 12th for a week. The decision was made in the wake of reports pouring in from different areas regarding teachers and the students […]
