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Muslims May Face Renewed Persecution During The Third Term Of Modi India
“The dehumanized nature of the Modi rule in the last ten years has witnessed the lynching of Muslims, Hindu mobs entering the mosques and flying saffron flags a...
Illusion Of Normality: Unmasking Reality In Jammu and Kashmir
“Civil rights activists, politicians and youth are imprisoned and their voices stifled by draconian measures taken under the guise of national security. Suppres...
Mental Health Crisis in Kashmir: A Call for Urgent Action
“The heightened mental health crisis, compounded by human rights abuses and psychological stress from perpetual violence and loss in Kashmir.” Mehr un Nisa* The...
Failure Of The Opposition Is Not Failure Of The Alternative
“Narendra Modi is the biggest player in the politics of corporate-communal nexus going on in the country. He knows very well when to use whom on the path of pol...
Myth Of Invincibility! Whether Modi Will Get A Third Term In 2024 Or These Elections Can Spring A Surprise?
Subhash Gatade* Introduction India at the beginning of the year stands at the cusp of a Momentous Change. The biggest question before everyone is whether the el...
Sino-India influence in South Asia
“The gradual erosion of democracy in India and growing investment projects by China have become the catalysts for change, thus making authoritarianism a new mod...
Obituary: Farooq Nazki Continues To Be A Guiding Light For His Admirers
Bashir Aarif* It is shocking for me to believe that my guiding force in the field of broadcasting, Farooq Nazki, left this world after a prolonged ailment. A co...
Among The Last Reputed Bastions Of Academic Freedom Falls
Sandeep Pandey* This is the seventh consecutive academic year when I would have gone as a visiting faculty member to the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmed...
The Unholy Alliance Of Kashmir Conflict And Climate
Consequences of militarization along the line of divide in Kashmir not only play a role in climate change but also impede initiatives aimed at tackling environm...
Kashmir in a ‘Templocracy’: A Home Lost Forever
“34 years since the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, there is no substantial change for them. Despite being used as symbols by the government, the Pandits remain cul...
Journey Of A TB Survivor From Pain To Strength
Shobha Shukla & Kalpana Acharya* Immortal words of Leonard Cohen, “there is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in,” best sum up the transformativ...
Striving For Peace: Complex Path To Stable South Asia
Mehr-ur-nisa Rehman* The legacy of colonial-era border demarcation in South Asia continues to cast a shadow over geopolitics, highlighting how historical territ...
The Trouble with Events
Gwynne Dyer* Harold Macmillan, British prime minister about half a century ago, was once asked what was the greatest challenge for a political leader. “Events, ...
Need To Distinguish Political Project Of The Hindutva From Hinduism
Sandeep Pandey* A Ram temple consecration ceremony is scheduled in Ayodhya on 22 January. This temple is being built, after demolition of a mosque at the same p...
End Culture Of Impunity: Only Way To End Extrajudicial Killings
While it is heartening that government has expressed willingness to hold enquiry into Poonch incident, given the experience, it is difficult to believe that thi...
Kashmir Mainstream: How will they woo their voters in post-370 realities?
How will the mainstream political parties of Jammu and Kashmir will face their voters post Article 370 abrogation that snatched the semi-autonomous status of th...
Ram Temple in light of two poems “Deeno Daan,” and “Shav Vahini Ganga”
Syed Ali Mujtaba* Ram Temple is the talk of India right now and whose inauguration on January 22, 2024, is carried out in much detail in the Indian media. Howev...
What Israel fears above all?
An analysis of what is happening in the International Court of Justice
Climate Change and Energy Transition: The 2023 Scorecard
By Richard Heinberg and J. David Hughes* The numbers are in. Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin. The planet is now 1.48 degrees Celsius warmer...
The Human Cost of Conflict: Civilians Caught in Kashmir's Crossfire
Echoes of Tragedy: The Unending Struggle in the Kashmir Valley