Non-negotiable needs
In recent week after the government itself has pointed to certain loopholes (like the use of undue considerations including money and political influence) in the way recruitments to various government jobs are done here, it is expected that there will be a thorough relook in the recruitment rules and policy on the whole. One in […]
Introspection is a must
In an overly politicized atmosphere during past couple of decades ordinary Kashmiris have been given to believe that ‘they are the best’. Without going into the specifics, the statement itself is finding increasing resonance both in public as well as private discourse. Beginning from the natural beauty of the place people usually end up doing […]
Martyr’s Day
Even as the structural violence woven into the political systems here has for years kept Kashmir’s young population atop the ‘anger mountain’, those who have, deliberately or by default, actually facilitated this adrenaline rush in their bloodstreams, remain plagued by a terrible sense of disorientation. This is true of both separatists as well as those […]
Good beginning
Well done. The government’s decision to sack over a hundred odd people who had allegedly made it to the jobs in KVIB through backdoor is a welcome development. It must be appreciated, at least for encouraging the government to continue this drive, which holds, for sure, some promise of delivering this state from the wicked […]
Prioritizing Power
Unlike in the past, this summer the power problems are making a steady return to haunt the people here. Day-long power-cuts several times a week even in the metered areas of the city have become a norm, and the situation in non-metered areas besides in the countryside is obviously much worse. And indeed if the […]
Welcome confession
Launching the “Green J&K Drive” at Zabarwan hills Monday, Governor Satya Pal Malik said several people, who worked in the Forest department in the state, had accumulated millions of rupees by destroying forests here. “See the bungalows in Vasant Vihar or Maharani Bagh in Delhi of those who worked in the Forest department. I know […]
KVIB recruitments
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday ordered cancellation of 101 appointments made in the Khadi and Village Industries Board (KVIB) in 2016 during then PDP-BJP rule. The decision has been hailed by one and all. In fact when these recruitments were made, these were challenged by several candidates and it was insisted that the […]
Hartal is back
According to Webster’s Unabridged (dictionary), ‘imagination’ is the “mental synthesis of new ideas from elements experienced separately… The broader meaning starts with the notion of mental imaging of things suggested but not previously experienced, and thence expands… to the idea of mental creation and poetic idealization (creative imagination)…” But to a political or a trade […]
Avoidable deaths
The terrible road accident in Kishtwar past week which left 36 persons death has once again brought back focus on so many loopholes that characterize the traffic management in Jammu and Kashmir. Be it faulty road engineering and pathetic condition of roads, or for that matter the reckless and mad driving by people on the […]
Why restrictions?
Amarnath Yatra is not new to Kashmir. But of course the way it is being managed now is new. In the past it used to be how a religious affair is supposed to. Governments would involve itself minimally, and yet always help by way of creating different facilities for the visiting pilgrims so that they […]
