Editorial
18 articles
The Sarla Bhat Case Reopening: Closure or Political Theatre?
If justice is the motive, the re-opening of the case should be welcome. But 35 years on, what is to be achieved by senseless and random raids that appear to be ...
War Against Terror Must Be Targetted
The mass detentions and house demolitions in Kashmir suggest that in the garb of counter insurgency, Kashmiris are being collectively punished and brutalized.
Electoral Bonds: Scam Of All Times
The scale of the entire operation cannot be limited simply to the Rs 16,000 crores donated by business companies, individuals, and shell companies to various po...
Arrest And Freeze Operations
The arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday by Enforcement Directorate (ED) raises concern about the selective targeting of the opposition le...
Blinded By Unyielding Authority
“From Kashmir to protesting farmers, the use of so-called non-lethal weapons have killed and blinded people in defiance of constitutional guarantees and interna...
Listen To The Anger And Pain Buried Beneath The Silence
It is difficult to shrug off the horrifying images from Poonch, of men detained at an Army camp being thrashed, stripped and sprayed with chilli powder over the...
Brutality in Poonch
The alleged custodial killing of three men from the Gujjar tribal community in a remote village in Poonch district raises many questions. The most direct questi...
The Art of Deception
Machiavelli who gave to the world the unscrupulous political theory of ‘ends justifying means’ wrote, ‘Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deceptio...
The ‘differently’ abled writers in an ecosystem of stenographers
Who are the differently-abled writers, who sign up recruitment letters for militants? Perhaps, the new Director General of Police, Rashmi Ranjan Swain, is privy...
Enough is enough
For the sake of humanity, world peace, aggression in Gaza must stop With Israel doubling up its air strikes with ground aggression, after the brutal Hamas attac...
Still more HR abuses
Justification by security forces adds salt to injury Close on the heels of the Bandipora molestation and shocking Kupwara killings, have followed the Kangan out...
Release of central funds
Union minister censures state administration More often than not the coalition government has earned disparagement from its critics for the gigantic gap between...
MARGINALIA By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
CM and his Noah's ark Jumbo was once a perfect word to describe gigantic cabinet size. But once its starts oozing out of its elephantine existence, even Jumbo w...
Arbitrary promotions, transfers
Contrary to Mufti government's commitment for evolving a fair and transparent policy for appointments, promotions and transfers in various government department...
HOW SAFE ARE PASSENGERS?
IT is sad to admit that railway travel in independent India had never been quite safe and that, with each passing year, it is getting more and more unsafe. But,...
Institutes of music, fine arts
Music and fine arts along with literature and drama play significant role in enriching the cultural life and education of the people. Unfortunately not much imp...
BOYS IN BLUE FOR TRAFFIC BLUES
When traffic jams occur every imaginable and unimaginable thing converges on the streets mounting to the chaos. The only thing conspicuously absent is the traff...
FEEL GOOD BUDGET
In hot haste Finance Minister Jaswant Singh presented the interim budget before the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. It was hardly a budget in the proper sense of the term...