Talks or no talks, BJP’s target is upcoming election
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning the last Lok Sabha elections with a whopping majority, the new central government looks keen on continuing...
India vs Pakistan encounter is ‘war minus the shooting’
George Orwell, one of the greatest writers of all times, wrote in Sporting Spirit, “I am always amazed when I hear people saying that...
Unfolding a decade of Cross-LoC trade
Just as the cross-LoC traders in Poonch were breathing a sigh of relief after resumption of trade on 16 April, the Ministry of Home...
Ufra Mir: How to engage with mental health issues more effectively?
Ever felt like you are standing still, alone, in the middle of nowhere and the world around you is zooming in and out—you try...
As a Kashmiri youth, why I don’t vote
The idea of Right to Vote—or universal adult franchise—are being forced down the throat since childhood in schools; and the battles that people have...
‘Resistance’ by J-K’s Unionists: Electoral gimmick or new shift?
Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister (CM) of Jammu and Kashmir, stirred a political hornet’s nest, saying, ‘turn the clock backward to 1953’, in a...
Integral Kashmir; not so integral Kashmiris
In the afternoon of 14 February 2019, a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden Eeco car into a CRPF vehicle, part of a convoy, on...
A pill for peace | Ufra Mir
Illustration by Anis Wani for The Kashmir Walla
Peace. A phenomenon, an aspiration, and often the ultimate goal desired by so many.
Most of the messages...
Kashmir, and toxic nationalism of India-Pakistan
The tragic incident of the suicide attack in Pulwama claimed lives of more than 40 Central Police Reserve Forces (CRPF) troopers triggered a new...
Seeing militancy as Kashmir issue, not its causes, a mistake
We have come full circle in Jammu and Kashmir, after a decade of violence, which swallowed 3250 number of people, with 900 civilians. The...