Understand people’s anxieties
The daily happenings are an ample demonstration and proof of how dangerous a place Kashmir is. Years and decades of systematic disenfranchisement and constant bullying have sowed the seeds of anger and aversion so deep into the popular psyche that the situation here remains ever-volatile. All it needs is a trigger for the pent-up rage […]
Understand people’s anxieties
The daily happenings are an ample demonstration and proof of how dangerous a place Kashmir is. Years and decades of systematic disenfranchisement and constant bullying have sowed the seeds of anger and aversion so deep into the popular psyche that the situation here remains ever-volatile. All it needs is a trigger for the pent-up rage […]
Confrontations
Not a single day passes without people protesting against the government, or some of its agencies for something or the other. In fact Srinagar’s Press Enclave has now turned into a permanent protesting venue thronged by the aggrieved people of all hues day-in and day-out to register their protests against the government. In the countryside […]
Delayed justice …
“Justice delayed is justice denied”. But this saying, overused into a cliché, fails to change anything when it comes to practical delivery of justice. Had it not been so, certainly the situation as for the pendency of cases in the courts waiting final arbitration would not have been as mammoth as it is today. It […]
Remove unnecessary hurdles
Jobs for the jobless always figure on top of the promissory lists of all dispensations. This time too it is no different. The new administration headed by the Governor has also pledged to explore ways and means of providing meaningful and profitable jobs to the educated jobless. It has always been like this – governments […]
‘Insaniyat’ template wasted!
It has become a sort of cliché to hear India saying that it could do business with Pakistan only after it stops supporting separatism in Kashmir. After harping on this line for years together, today we have seen India making it a pretext for shying away from any meaningful engagement with Pakistan – the calling […]
Looking inwards
No society in the world can progress unless its members inculcate a sense of responsibility towards each other and also towards the collective good of the whole of the society. Neither governments nor some other sort of law enforcing agencies can make a society vibrant and self reliant though these may supplement societies own efforts […]
Meaningful talks
At a recent SAARC foreign ministers’ meet on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session in New York, the polarized Indo-Pak relations were once again visibly discernible. And the tensions between the two neighbours easily overshadowed anything that the said meeting could have been able to achieve. Though there are indications suggesting that the two […]
Lack of 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 […]
Costs of conflicts
Living in a world awash in violent conflict is certainly not a very pleasing thought. Given that the tradition of hatred and capacity for destruction are expanding and surging, and conflicts are playing out in an era when the ability to destroy life and property is without limit. No wonder than that in the early […]
