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The Kashmir Monitor opinions section features opinion articles, editorial opinions, today's opinion, analysis and columnist & opinion stories.
March 25, 2024

PM Modi could swing Tesla to India

On March 15, the government announced a new scheme to promote investment in EVs. Any company willing to invest $500 million in a new manufacturing facility that begins production in three years…

What the Kathua rape means

A spate of rapes in India, with the accused in most cases being ordinary citizens, or politicians and police officials in some instances, suggests an alarming sickness of the body politic. Public…
May 16, 2018

The dying art of letter writing

With a Mughal magazine situated in close proximity, the tumbling remnants of Kashmere Gate built by Emperor Shah Jahan, have seen many periods of turmoil – from the revolt of 1857 to…
May 16, 2018

Reviving cultural cooperation

How I, an Indian, became the Creative Director and Curator of the first Pakistan International Film Festival and took a delegation of Indian filmmakers over to Karachi for the event, is a…
May 16, 2018

From Babri Masjid to Gurugram

From Babri Masjid in 1992 to Gurugram in 2018, much water has flown down the Saryu and Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. While the demolition of the Babri Masjid marked a watershed…
May 16, 2018

Freedom of speech and its detractors

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states that ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive…
May 16, 2018
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif speaks to reporters outside the premises of the Joint Investigation Team, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, June 15, 2017. Sharif appeared before a Supreme Court-appointed team investigating allegations against his family's offshore companies and money laundering. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

For Nawaz, it’s not over till it’s over

Lambasting the ongoing accountability process against himself and his family, former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has said: “You can’t run a country if you have two or three parallel…
May 15, 2018

MeToo Goes Global

She was an 8-year-old girl with thick brown hair, large brown eyes, a purple dress and a fondness for running through the fields in northern India where she tended horses. Then a…
May 15, 2018

Of mindless words and a vacuum of ideas

The very popular, but quite cynical, perception of politics, particularly in the middle class, is that it is ugly, conspiratorial, and power-centric. Politicians are seen as corrupt, uneducated thugs, who are ignorant…
May 15, 2018

Anatomy of AMU under attack

Nearly every other structure around Achal Tal is topped by a spire. Scores of temples, small and big, line the narrow lanes around the lake in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. “There are at…
May 15, 2018

Pakistan: Elephant in the room

A discussion about the mutant growth of extremist violence and mindset in Pakistan is never quite complete without lamenting how, in his attempt to appease the right-wing opposition, Z.A. Bhutto and his…
May 15, 2018
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