SUBCONTINENT UNDER NEW MILITARY THREAT
By: Mushtaq Hurra External affairs ministers and defense ministers of India and America met last month in Delhi for much hyped bilateral talks, and both the countries have signed an important military agreement there. The agreement is believed to incept a new and extraordinary American military stronghold on India in particular and on the whole […]
Nitish Kumar seems to have lost touch with the ground reality
His poll victories have been in alliance with the RJD or BJP. The only times he contested alone — in 1995 and 2014 — the results were disastrous
By: Dipak Mishra Politicians often take on different personas when it comes to negotiating the number of seats with their allies, and end up ignoring the ground reality. Bihar’s chief minister, Nitish Kumar, is doing the same thing. He is donning his persona from 2010, when his wish was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s command. He […]
Reconceptualising a new Kashmiri order
The foundation of Kashmiri nationalism was laid in 1931, and this nationalism recognised the heterogeneity of the nation
The turbulence and turmoil that has haunted Kashmir for the past twenty-three years holds all of us, as a people, accountable for the degeneration of our politics and society. While it is important for us to condemn, question, and seek redress for the human rights violations in Kashmir, it is also important for us to […]
Seismic costs
A mega dam in an earthquake zone could cause huge loss of life.
By: Imaduddin Ahmed WHEN considering investment in an infrastructure project, responsible investors or donors would ask: what is the need? What are the financial, social and environmental costs? What are the risks and the unknowns? Is the project likely to yield higher costs than benefits? Is the project the best option to address the need? […]
After the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s time to focus on the victims of rape
Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege’s award should make us consider the impact on those who suffer sexual assaults
By: Winnie M Li Ten years ago, when I was raped, I never could have predicted a single six-character hashtag would come to symbolise — at least for the media — all the world’s survivors of sexual assault and misconduct. But #MeToo is apparently a trend, and news stories around rape are now “topical”, even […]
Portraits of Pakistan
By: Ghazi Salahuddin Who do you think are the most distinguished Pakistanis who inspire you and make you feel good about your country? This is one of the questions that I pose whenever I have an opportunity to interact with young people. Naturally, I get anxious to see if some of my choices – the […]
Charismatic Dr Ruveda salaam- the inspiration for many!
By: Rayees Masroor Hailing from a small border village of Farkin in one of the extreme corners of district Kupwara, the iconic Dr Ruveda Salam became the very first woman IPS officer from the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 2015. Before Ruveda cleared the UPSC (for the first time), she got into medical college, […]
Crisis of Educational Sector: Conflict-driven or administrative blunder
It is not news anymore – for the student community in particular – that Education sector of Kashmir is in deep crisis and in order to provoke a much-needed debate over the issue, I’d start from discussing two facets of it: first, the ongoing conflict in Kashmir is impacting the functioning of the educational sector […]
The unholy nexus of private schools
Various Private schools and missionary schools running in Kashmir Division, despite being under the category aided schools and established on Government land provided to them on lease, are violating the norms as well as contempt of Hon’ble Apex court’s landmark judgment under “Right to Education”, that talks about social integrations and inclusiveness by reserving 25 […]
Putin, Modi and psst… Pakistan
Russia's memorandum of co-operation to supply radar systems to Pakistan seems to have nudged India into standing up to the US
By: K.P. Nayar When Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi stand together at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Friday afternoon to witness the signing of several bilateral agreements, the elephant in the room will be Pakistan. In an atmosphere of bonhomie, partly contrived out of necessity on both sides, but mostly […]
