In the spring of 1987, a team of academics from some prominent universities were taken on a visit of the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) based in Omaha, Nebraska. On...

No other question in the Kashmir context, or in case of any other conflict, has generated as much thought, controversy, anxiety and intellectual angst as the issue of use of...

Saturday was a very difficult day for Kashmir. Though it remains debatable that whatever happened during the day – whether it was planned to be so or it was just...

The Supreme Court has directed chief secretaries and DGPs of 11 states to take “prompt” and necessary action to prevent incidents of threat, assault and social boycott of Kashmiris in...

“Justice without power is impotent; power without justice is tyranny.” This is what the major regional players – the National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party – should hear loud and...

Immediately after independence, the most daunting task for India was to manage its vast diversity. In a country of more than 500 spoken languages, scores of practising religions, hundreds of...

Any idea why people of Kashmir have generally lost it with politics, more so with the word ‘democracy’ – the kind of democracy they have witnessed all along? The answer...

The heightened tensions between India and Pakistan in the wake of Pulwama suicide attack have once again become a staple for the debates which are beamed into people’s homes every...

The attack carried out by a suicide bomber of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant group, who rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a bus on Jammu-Srinagar national highway near Lethpora in south Kashmir...

Almost all wars, both international as well as internationalized internal wars or civil wars, point towards the complicity of international actors in fueling and sustaining these conflicts, sometimes for political...