Welcome Verdict
Justice has prevailed. Those responsible for brutal rape and murder of a teenaged nomad girl in Rasana, Kathua have been convicted. This conviction has strengthened the faith of the people in judiciary as well as police. It goes without saying that Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch investigated the case and have done it so […]
Tune to peace frequency
Almost all civil war situations point towards the complicity of international actors in fueling and sustaining these conflicts, sometimes for political and strategic reasons, and times for pure economic interests. Be it the transnational arms dealers or the multinational business corporations or for that matter even the various nation-states — and the extensions of all […]
Kashmir needs serious resolve
On the occasion of the final demobilization of El Salvador’s FMLN in December 1992, then UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said: “The transition from war to peace does not come spontaneously or easily… years of strife inevitably leave deep scars, bitter memories and rancour. Peace is won only by effort and resolve. There must therefore be […]
Eid Mubarak
Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the fasting month of Ramzan. This has to do with the communal aspects of the fast, which expresses many of the basic values of the Muslim community — empathy for the poor, charity, worship, steadfastness, patience etc. Fasting is also believed to extol fundamental distinctions, lauding the power of […]
Prioritizing Kashmir
Narindra Modi has started his second innings as Prime Minister of India. This time too he has come to power with a massive mandate indicating that the people of India repose full faith in him and believe that he is the only answer to the issues and problems confronting India as a nation. Though the […]
Missing purpose!
History bears witness that nations have evolved from nadir to zenith by sheer diligence and collective grit of their people. Nations are not born great, collective will of people help them achieve greatness and makes them great. Similarly, the societies are never inherently desolate; ideological voids, vices, preference to individual comfort over collective good and […]
They must wake up
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 society – our youth – are not only a disarrayed and disturbed lot but they are also exhausted in terms of their hope for a […]
Land grab
Everything is up for grabs in Kashmir. This is the unfortunate reality here. Irrespective of what government might say to boast about its so-called transparency, fact of the matter remains that there is complete lack of accountability in the very systems of governance here. And mind it, this corruption is patronized and promoted by the […]
Learn from history
History is a great teacher, a huge repository of events and happenings which are an important source of knowledge and wisdom. The art of learning from history lies in reading and interpreting it so as to be able to draw something from it, something which makes sense with at least identical situations of present and […]
Building stake in peace
For the past couple of decades now, successive governments have been very vocal about bringing in “peace through development”. From the development economics point-of-view, the standpoint that better economy brings better dividends in terms of peace is indeed logical, particularly when one goes by the modules correlating peace and development. But there are other dynamics […]
