Beyond speeches
Every manufacturer, the simple business logic goes, constantly tries to come up with goods that are in great demand. Personal likes and dislikes doesn’t matter much, as every business is market-driven, and in order to be successful one has to cater to the requirements of the consumers. Nobody sells motorboats in a desert or cars […]
Marketing ‘change’
It has always been like this. Each time elections are round the corner, people and politicians review their loyalties and switch-over to groups wherein they see better political fortunes for themselves. There is nothing moral or immoral in it, it is just the politics of convenience. Similarly, for the political parties too, notwithstanding the moral […]
Education is the key
Those who have read about the world’s political and economic history stand witness to the fact that power paradigms have been shifting continuously. What used to be seen as lever of absolute power steadily lost this leverage to something else as the world evolved toward higher degrees of civilization. For instance, history has seen times […]
Carelessness
Ludwig Boltzman once wrote, nineteenth century will be remembered as the century of Darwin, in much the same way as the twentieth century is remembered as the one belonging to Einstein. The humankind’s burgeoning understanding about the biological sciences along with their co-relation with other spheres of physics and allied sciences have altered the landscape […]
Confrontations
Not a single day passes here without people protesting against the government, or some of its agencies for something or the other. In fact protestors taking to streets and blocking them for vehicular traffic for hours together has become a common and almost daily occurrence. It is this continued tension that has added a new […]
Delayed justice …
“Justice delayed is justice denied”. But this saying, overused into a cliché, fails to change anything when it comes to practical delivery of justice. Had it not been so, certainly the situation as for the pendency of cases in the courts waiting final arbitration would not have been as mammoth as it is today. It […]
It’s disappointing!
Blame it on unresolved political questions, the exercise of power and authority has all along been very problematic here. Needless to say that in an overly politicized situation wherein huge multitude of visible and invisible forces are vying for and manipulating the sources and agencies of power and authority, popular perceptions and understandings of this […]
Dividing people
Come elections, politics of hate replaces rationality and civility. Pitching one linguistic group against other; one religious group against other; one ethnic identity against other and one caste against other becomes norm of the day. This ugly trend always makes one to wonder how the politicians and political parties always try to drag the public […]
Why this custodial dead?
That a young man from Awantipura has died in police custody is very unfortunate. Even though the police itself had recommended a probe, following which the government ordered a magisterial inquiry into this custodial dead, but it goes without saying that people of Kashmir no longer trust official assertions about such probes and inquiries. The […]
Time to walk the talk
Of the many problems facing Jammu and Kashmir, while political uncertainty and violence have been a huge stumbling block in state’s progress and development; corruption has been another major challenge, which has been adding to the conflict by creating and sustaining unjust structures besides perpetuating widespread injustices. Notwithstanding the successive governments’ claims about fighting corruption, […]
