Opinion - Page 233

Jammu and Kashmir is notching up several firsts. The abolition of the Plan versus non-Plan distinction was one of them. Paragraphs 212 to 214 of the J&K finance minister’s budget speech for…

Among the political galleries of India there have been discussions about holding simultaneous elections for the state assemblies and the Lok Sabha every five years. The momentum for this ambitious proposal was…

Kashmir stirs emotion, debate, politics, sense of rights, legal and geopolitical questions, terrible memories and sad stories, sense of urgency, demands, activism, pains, poems and songs, allurement, greed, mobility, hatred, plans, killings,…

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next”. – Abraham Lincoln. Public school system has always been a matter of debate…

The silence as you stand in the centre of Makin, the birthplace of the Pakistan Taliban, is striking. Nestled among the rocky mountains of this remote corner of northwestern Pakistan’s South Waziristan…

When talking about stock markets, there are three rules you have to remember. First, the stock market is not the economy. Second, the stock market is not the economy. Third, the stock…

“Yes, those who killed my son were Muslims but every Muslim cannot be branded for this. Don’t use me to spread communal tension, don’t drag me into it. I appeal to everyone…

The heart-wrenching story of a 6-year-old girl mauled to death by stray dogs in Sopore is the mirror image of inhuman and beastly attitude of the people in the state administration. Identified…

Every riot today produces a set of staged narratives which are eerie to watch and strange to listen to. A riot is no longer an act of production where the narrative focusses…

Fireworks started the very first week of New Year. This time people of Jammu region witnessed large-scale violations of the India-Pakistan Ceasefire Understanding (2003) with intense cross-LoC/IB shelling and calibre-escalation from small…