COVID-19: Can public transport become super spreader in Kashmir?
On a July morning, dozens of passengers had gathered at the bus stand in Batamaloo, chatting and loitering around as they waited for passenger...
China is South Asia’s new favorite
As China expands its regional influence in the Indo-Pacific particularly in the South China Sea, it is easy to forget that Beijing has invested...
New Delhi’s Kashmir policy is driven by Hindutva pressures
The centre’s policies towards Kashmir have also been greatly influenced by the pressures the Hindu nationalist parties have been bringing to bear upon the...
Myth of discrimination manufactured Jammu’s consent for abrogation of art-370
One of the arguments put forth for scrapping Articles 35-A and 370 was that these provisions had acted as stumbling blocks in the development...
Are Kashmir’s unionists simply miffed with a sour deal?
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been emboldened by the overwhelming mandate it received from Indian voters in the 2019 general elections. Since then,...
J-K’s new Media Policy is against democratic principles
“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and don’t live...
Kashmir card in the West’s domestic politics
Last month, Joe Biden, the presumptive democratic rival to Donald Trump for the Presidential elections, released his manifesto for American Muslims titled “Agenda for...
They snatch gun and try to escape. They repeat.
Not many were surprised when it happened. The Uttar Pradesh police took down gangster Vikas Dubey, the country closely watched a deadly ambush, the...
Lockdown or picnics in parks?: J-K admin has a contradictory approach to curb pandemic
Some saw it as a step towards reviving tourism, especially for Kashmir where tourist flow had come to a halt after 5 August last...
In Kashmir’s dirty Mayoral politics, a hint of possible future alliances
On 16 June, Srinagar city's mayor Junaid Azim Mattu was removed as the head of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation after he failed to pass...