Now that the election to local bodies has concluded and thankfully peacefully, the governor administration should gear up to make newly elected grass roots representatives to start working for the...

Like a proverbial ‘Andher Nagri’, nothing seems to work here in this God-forsaken land. Each field and every sphere of human activity here is corrupted with so many vices that...

As the autumn sets in here in the Valley, people are made to believe that the administration and its machinery are geared up to face the coming winter. But come...

In a 1970 publication – ‘The Great Conspiracy Trial’ – author Jason Epstein records an anecdote about the trial of the Chicago Seven: Over the weekend some 150 lawyers from...

Urdu, the official language of Jammu and Kashmir, is being treated so badly by the system here that its official status is just confined to the official records only. Such...

Growing no bones in expressing resentment at regular strikes and shutdowns here, the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) other day urged the separatists to think of and evolve...

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard of their own interest. We address ourselves...

If the devastating ethnography of the raw realities of life and history in Jammu and Kashmir are looked into, it goes without saying that the most vital chunk of the...

Nineteenth century is 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...

“India cannot have talks with Pakistan unless it stops cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.” This is a line that India has repeated without miss for the past many years....