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Was Pak-administered Kashmir’s First Information Chief an Indian Spy?
True story of G K Reddy: journalist, editor, and India's man inside Pakistan, who held ministerial meetings, drafted propaganda—but quietly fled in a military p...
Strengthening Healthcare in Jammu & Kashmir: A Roadmap for Reform
Shortage of doctors and unfilled vacancies is at the heart of the healthcare crisis in the region and can be redressed through short- and long-term measures to ...
‘Azad Kashmir’s Awakening’? Assessing Two Years of the Joint Awami Action Committee
The Joint Awami Action Committee in PAJK has evolved from a protest movement into a comprehensive social force challenging the existing political order but face...
Who Will Succeed Modi?
With RSS breathing down BJP’s neck, a leadership transition looms large—but Narendra Modi remains the master of suspense.
Why No ‘Gita’ Recitation in Schools?
Is a resistance of some kind slowly emerging from the teaching community to save the secular character of education and foil Supremacist designs?
Cracks in Ice: Cautious But Meaningful Gesture Toward Indo-Pak Peace
A recent conference in Delhi offers a flicker of hope for regional de-escalation—but for dialogue to be meaningful, it must move beyond symbolism, institutional...
1924: Silk Blood on Sher Garhi Srinagar and the unraveling of Dogra hegemony
The 1924 silk workers strike represented a quantum leap in workers' consciousness, moving from individual grievances to organized resistance through processions...
Omar Abdullah’s Fight For Freedom
House Arrest of J&K Leaders on July 13, the Martyrs' Day Sparks Debate on Democratic Rights of the people in Kashmir and rest of India.
Speaking Out in Pakistan-administered Kashmir: A Journalist’s Fight Against Misogyny
One woman’s account of harassment, betrayal, and resistance in a male-dominated media landscape in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
Is an All-India Plan Underway to Foment Communal Conflicts?
President Rajendra Prasad had written to Sardar Patel, flagging cases of Hindutva activists dressing as Muslims to foment communal trouble. That trend continues...
A War Hidden from the World’s Gaze
A few thousand tribals and their supporters can be eliminated through military operations or imprisoned as “urban Naxals,” but the root causes will remain unles...
The Quiet Grammar of Delay: A Reflection from a Transgender Law Graduate
There are truths we carry not because they are unspeakable, but because the forum never existed to hold them with care. This piece is not an indictment. It is a...
Dark Shadows of Emergency!
How they have become arsenal for the majoritarian Hindutva forces to convert the sovereign, independent, secular, socialist republic into a Hindu Rashtra.
In Conversation with Nigara Mirdad: An Exiled Diplomat’s Voice from a Silenced Nation
“India’s abstention is not neutral—it signals hesitation at a time when moral clarity is needed. Quiet diplomacy is not enough when women are banned from educat...
Revisiting Kashmir's Defining Moments of 1931: Between Aspirations & Fallacies
From 1865 Shawl Weavers agitation to 1931 martyrdom, these are interconnected manifestations of the State's extractive political economy, authoritarian governan...
Elected but powerless: Farce of democracy in Kashmir
Omar Abdullah’s barred entry to a historic graveyard on Martyrs’ Day reveals the illusion of autonomy and the deepening disenfranchisement of the Kashmiri peopl...
Democracy For The Few?
Is Bihar being turned into a test case of disenfranchising people?
When the Coal Mines Close, Who Wins? The Land Question at the Heart of a Just Transition
India has the fourth highest potential in the world to generate solar power from abandoned coal mines by restoring them and setting up renewable energy projects...
Nine Years After Failed Coup, Türkiye Reflects on Consequences
This date now holds immense significance in Türkiye’s modern history and is commemorated annually with great ceremony as the "Day of Democracy and National Unit...
Emergency Regime and the Role of RSS
There have been books and articles on RSS chief Balasaheb Deoras and former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee “betraying” the anti-Emergency movement by writing letter...