Srinagar, Aug. 15 -- Thirty-six years. For a human being, it is almost half a lifetime. For a child, it is enough time to be born, go to school, graduate, marry and become the parent of another scho... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 10 -- Dear Prime Minister, India is preparing to celebrate another Independence Day. The Tricolour will rise. The anthem will play. Speeches will invoke sacrifice, sovereignty, freedo... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 3 -- In most places, an armed policeman walking beside someone indicates danger. In Kashmir, he can also indicate status. A politician may lose an election, surrender his office, disapp... Read More
Srinagar, July 27 -- In India, when a public project succeeds, an officer's name is prominently displayed. There are press conferences, social-media posts, glowing profiles, awards, appreciation lette... Read More
Srinagar, July 20 -- There is something impressive about a chief minister who wins an election and then spends the remainder of his term explaining why winning it was practically useless. Omar Abdulla... Read More
Srinagar, July 13 -- The proposal to develop a third route to the Shri Amarnathji cave from Minamarg, near Drass, should be seen as an important infrastructure and pilgrimage-management idea. It opens... Read More
Srinagar, July 6 -- A controversial book entered the libraries of government schools in Jammu and Kashmir, passed through an expert committee, survived official scrutiny, crossed several bureaucratic ... Read More
Srinagar, June 29 -- For decades, Jammu & Kashmir has witnessed governments come and go, alliances emerge and collapse, slogans change, and manifestos get rewritten. Yet one political tradition has re... Read More
Srinagar, June 22 -- For decades, Jantar Mantar occupied a special place in India's democratic imagination. It was where voices from distant corners of the country converged to seek justice, recogniti... Read More
Srinagar, June 15 -- For over three decades, the promise of Kashmiri Pandit return has occupied a special place in the political vocabulary of Jammu & Kashmir. Every few months, a conference is organi... Read More