The fundamental importance of human freedom, in general, is strongly supplemented by the “instrumental effectiveness of freedoms of particular kinds to promote freedoms of other kinds”. It is because the...

In the developed West, if you are driving a car and you hear a siren of an ambulance or a police car, you simply pull up to the side to...

When merit is killed, corruption is born. Where else could it be more perceptible than in Jammu and Kashmir? The list of the reserved categories stretches day by day and...

The tensions between India and Pakistan are once again touching a crescendo. With border tensions having escalated during past few days, now followed by belligerent statements from the political and...

In the early years of the twenty-first century, some three dozen active conflicts were underway and most of these are still raging. And since then many more fresh conflicts have...

Shen Tong, who was active in the Chinese students’ movement for democracy and who managed to escape secretly to the United States after the brutal June 04, 1989 crackdown, says...

History has ample insights to explain the causes of turmoil in Kashmir. In fact the origin and repercussions of the turmoil in Kashmir are now so widely understood now that...

The State administration headed by Governor has completed six months here, but as of now it too has not been able to bring about any visible change in the culture...

Following the killing of seven civilians in a Pulwama village past Saturday, state’s mainstream politicians grew no bones in expressing their anger about it, though instead of directing it at...

Seven more civilians were killed by the government forces in Shopian – and again the state went about it as if nothing had happened. Some token regrets did come about...