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What Message Will The J&K Polls Have For India?
‘With all outlets of public expression virtually choked for the last five years, suppressed anger and frustration is looking for an opening via the ballot box. ...
Reaching the unreached migrants in unorganised workforce with health services
According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment of Government of India, the workers in the unorganised sector constitute about 93% of the total workforce in ...
Remembering Natwar Singh: Successful Diplomat But A Failed Politician
I remember the heated debate in the Lok Sabha on the afternoon of 28 May 1998, 10 days after India conducted nuclear tests. I was sitting in the front row of th...
Dacca of 1971, 'The Kashmir Mafia' & Dhaka's Transformed Political Landscape
“Bangladesh’s present crises coupled with history, which has Kashmir pugmarks, has a bearing on India, relations with regional players”
J&K Polls Bristles With Strange Possibilities
“If, as happened in Baramulla during the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the youth in the Valley get triggered enough to jump into the wider fray, the end result would...
Waqf Bill 2024: Unveiling Underlying Concerns Amid Euphoric Reforms
The original Waqf Act of 1995 allowed any Muslim to create a waqf or endowment with their movable or immovable property. However, the proposed amendment stipula...
I am from Shirote and I did not vote. Here’s why?
“As I reflect on the socio-economic and political changes that have swept across our country, I am left with a profound sense of disappointment. We have long aw...
Worsening situations: A nightmare for Palestinians with unabated Israeli bombings
What a contrast to India’s stand under Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. The fact is that Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision and policies vis-a-vis West Asia made the ...
Bangla Bhai Legacy Exists in Bangladesh, So Do Liberal Upsurges
In 2016, South Asia was shocked when bombs ripped off, killing several at Dhaka’s upmarket Holey Artisan Bakery. The assailants, young men, came with matches, b...
Wit, Wisdom and Oratory: Kashmir’s Beloved and Eloquent Scholar
Remembering Prof Agha Ashraf Ali, the educationist and public intellectual who transformed Kashmiri schooling, championed Muslim and women’s education, and insp...
Should Government Employees be allowed to Join RSS?
RSS is the biggest organization in the World. It aims at working for Hindu Rashtra and also claims that it is a Cultural Organization. It is as such striving fo...
Why is the Government Preventing the Media from Doing its Job Inside and Outside Parliament?
Recently, a woman journalist, Poonam Pandey, from a major media group faced police misconduct while covering a protest by the Women’s Congress demanding the imp...
Five years after 370, J&K continues to be a tragic saga of control and erasure
“Instead of the promised calm, New Delhi is escalating its stranglehold on Jammu and Kashmir, and wall-papering it with a narrative in which people are absent a...
With Modi weakened, is there light at the end of the tunnel in Kashmir?
“Not much can be expected, even if an alternative coalition replaces BJP, but some reach out for normalising the region is possible and also imperative for larg...
Pakistan’s Parachinar in Peril: Sectarian Strife and Quest for Peace
Nestled in the picturesque, mountainous border area of Pakistan, Parachinar is the capital of Kurram Agency, the only tribal region in Pakistan with a significa...
Reviving Obsolete Laws: A Step Backward for Jammu and Kashmir
“Modi government’s efforts to revive this archaic ordinance, undermining democratic processes and downgrading the state to union territories, are perplexing”
Abuse can’t deflect attention from corruption, citizens’ despair
It was extremely shocking to hear what BJP’s Anurag Thakur had to say in the Parliament vis-a-vis jaati and his absolutely crude remark hurled at the Leader of ...
Why didn’t Indians foresee ghettoisation of Muslims?
“Why our leaders did not sense and warn that one day Hindutva brigades will be calling the shots, relaying fear and threatening to make the Muslims refugees in ...
The Implications of Discord in the NDA
Following the electoral defeat in Uttar Pradesh, a new battle has emerged between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the central figures in Modi’s...
How Women Were Publicly Humiliated in a Programme in India and Nobody Protested
Israel’s unending war against Palestine – with due support from the Western World – is widely known. Less known is the fact that representatives of extreme patr...