Can’t afford to shut educational institutes!
Kashmir- the hotbed of violence, which has seen conflict unfolding in the worst ever forms and taking a heavy toll on human life, dignity, health and also property, has suffered massively on all fronts. Historically speaking, this piece of land and its inhabitants have hardly seem any substantial period of peace and tranquillity as […]
Of Indian Media, Public Intelligentsia and Civil society
The Criminal Silence on Kathua Rape and Murder
The horrific and gruesome abduction, gang rape and murder of a 8 year old girl in Kathua district of Jammu, didn’t seem to bother the collective conscience of the mainland India. Maintaining criminal silence for three months, paving way for cover up and hushing up the details is what has largely been done and many […]
No place for young girls
In Kathua and Unnao, the common feature is the blatant support given by BJP leaders to those accused of rape
The child was just eight years old. The beautiful image showing her wide-eyed innocence, a semblance of a smile caught by the camera, is widely shared on the Internet. She looks even younger in the photograph. She belonged to the Bakherwal nomadic community, and went missing on January 10 from the camp site in Rasana […]
Finding Structure
...in Conditions of Happiness and the Happiness Hypothesis, Morally Relevant Properties and Hypothetical Metaphysics
The fundamental question and even the imperative question is that, is there a socio-economic limitation on our rights or can we claim the plenary rights fairly and proportionality vis-à-vis the several classes existing on the level and plane of intelligible differentia pyramids. The answer can be in the fundamentality itself and ought simpliciter if the […]
From Afghanistan to Anantnag via Abbotabad – III
On May 2, 2011 Pakistani military cadets at the Kakul Academy in Abbotabad, Pakistan woke up to an approaching juddering sound. 100 yards away it also brought someone else’s sleep to an abrupt end. This person was Osama bin Laden. As we now know, on that fateful night, four U.S. military helicopters swooped down on […]
Broken promises
During the four years of BJP rule, Dalits seem to be losing the gains they had made earlier
The BJP’s manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections spoke of the party’s commitment to social justice and harmony. It promised economic empowerment of the Dalits through education, entrepreneurship and skill development. The manifesto also stressed on preventing atrocities against the Scheduled Castes (SCs). These goals were to be pursued in a mission mode. But […]
From Afghanistan to Anantnag via Abbotabad – II
On 22 March 2018 The Washington Post published Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman’s confession regarding Saudi Arabian government facilitation of the CIA in financing and support to Islamic (read Wahhabi/Salafist/Deobandi or an amalgam/hybrid of these) cultural narrative across the ‘Muslim world’. He was quoted saying the following: “Investment in mosques and madrassas overseas were […]
Modi appeal fading but divided opposition gives him edge
There is, however, no denying the fact of widespread discontent and a sense of loss of governmental control.
The Narendra Modi government is beginning to look as beleaguered as Rajiv Gandhi’s was before the 1989 elections. If the Bofors deal and confrontations with the Press weakened Rajiv’s authority then, it is the aggregation of protest and disaffection that is now taking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by surprise. Many see information and broadcasting […]
From Afghanistan to Anantnag via Abbotabad – I
The death of twenty people on April 1, including three security force personal and three passers-by, during pitched battles between Indian security forces and armed Hizbul Mujahedin militants in Anantnag district of Shopian in Indian-controlled South Kashmir is a stark reminder of a criminal legacy of the anti-colonial religious-nationalism that has its modern roots in […]
Conversion of agricultural land for non-farming purposes
In Jammu and Kashmir Agriculture is the key industry and economy is predominately depend on it, as 80 percent people in the state are directly or indirectly linked with agriculture. Land being a limited resource would continue to be under pressure in future due to conversion of agricultural land for non-farming purposes. According to […]
