Growing radicalization
That so many educated Kashmiri youth have joined militancy here of late is a big cause of worry, not for New Delhi and its security establishment only but for one and all. And the biggest worry is that this new breed of Kashmiri militants, if the reports are believed, are far more radicalized in the […]
Building stake in peace
For the past over a decade now, successive governments here 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 sounds logical, particularly when one goes by the modules correlating peace and development. But there are other dynamics […]
Agrarian mess
Jammu and Kashmir has been lavishly bestowed with a wealth of resources by nature, which if exploited judiciously and scientifically could unburden people from seemingly unavoidable dependence on neighbouring states for essential commodities like food-grains. The soil of the state is very fertile and the yield per hectare could be astounding if only the farmers […]
War mongering must stop
In October 1962, the two giant superpowers of the time stood on the verge of war when Soviet Union tried to place nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba, ninety miles away from the United States. Then U.S. President Johan F. Kennedy had ordered his navy to encircle Cuba in order to stop the Soviet […]
Freer institutions or slavery?
The ongoing row At the Aligarh Muslim University over the portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, besides so many other things, is also a pointer of bigger malaise that has come to afflict the “world’s largest democracy”. While a concerted effort is being made to muzzle the voices of dissent – otherwise the life blood of […]
‘Handle with care’
It’s very sad that a poor tourist, who certainly had nothing to do with the politics concerning Kashmir, has fell to the stones of an unruly mob at Narbal. Previously also there have been incidents wherein tourist vehicles were targeted by the stone-pelters, but both state authorities and the society in general, instead of acknowledging […]
Rethink Kashmir
Whatever is happening in Kashmir is really worrisome. And scary too, because not a single day passes off without people getting killed here. While the encounters between the combatants – the government forces and the militants — are happening almost on daily basis and inflicting fatal costs on both sides, civilians too also falling like […]
Building stake in peace
Since past some time, the governments here have been very vocal about “peace through development”. Delving politically into development economies, the government’s standpoint that the better economy is directly proportional to the peace in the state is indeed logical, particularly when one goes by the modules correlating peace and development. It goes without saying that […]
Meaningless rhetoric…
“Of the Rs 80,000 crore PM’s package, a good chunk of money has already been released for Jammu and Kashmir.” This is the latest assertion that came past week. So the ordinary people here have once again been bombarded with huge financial figures. A standard catch-line accompanying these whooping sums informs that this money is, […]
Absolute madness
Attack on school bus
Two minor students were injured – one of them with a severe head injury – when their school bus was pelted with stones in Zavoora area of Shopian on Wednesday (May 02, 2018). This incident has provoked widespread condemnations from both mainstream and the separatist leaders, though latter, as always, remained guarded in its denunciation. […]
