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Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Opinion- Page 155

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

Protecting the dissenters

By Ashwani Kumar The course of democracy anywhere in the world is defined by events that test the resilience of democracy and also add to it. The arrests on August 28 of
Sep. 3, 2018

CHARACTERS WHO RULED PAKISTAN

By Mehr F. Husain Pakistan at the Helm is Tilak Devasher’s second book on the country, the first being Pakistan: Courting the Abyss. A former member of India’s civil service, he writes
Sep. 1, 2018

Inheritors of a blood-soaked history

By JAVED ANAND Kerala, currently reeling under nature’s fury, is often referred to as “God’s own country” and rightly so. Apart from being a tourist’s paradise, the state prides itself for having
Sep. 1, 2018

Chanakya In Our Times

By Khaled Ahmed Pakistan’s last Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s posthumous book, Diaries of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan 1966-1972, had a significant entry: “Chanakya the Indian philosopher was also called Kautilya which
Sep. 1, 2018

Press and power

By A.G. Noorani EACH prime minister has his or her own distinctive style of bringing the press to heel. Jawaharlal Nehru amended the Criminal Procedure Code to make it easier to prosecute
Sep. 1, 2018

The bone hunters

By Irfan Husain SANSKRIT has always intrigued me, partly because it shares so much grammar and vocabulary with a number of European and South Asian languages. But for me, it’s more personal:
Sep. 1, 2018
Srinagar: A man carrying his son in laps as he holding a placard during a protest march against the petitions in Supreme court challenging the validity of Article 35A, in Srinagar on Thursday, August 30, 2018. Life in Kashmir came to a standstill due to a complete shutdown called by Joint Hurriyat Leadership against the legal challenge in the Supreme Court on the validity of Article 35A, which bars people from outside Jammu and Kashmir from acquiring any immovable property in the state. PTI Photo by Umar Ganie

It’s an anomaly

By Ranjan Kashmir is boiling over Article 35A, the constitutionality of which is under attack. The Supreme Court is set to adjudicate on whether it is violative of the basic structure of
Aug. 31, 2018

Inventing the Urban Naxal

By Ashutosh Bhardwaj In 1964, the USSR convicted Joseph Brodsky for writing poems and being a “social parasite”. The judge recorded that “Brodsky has systematically failed to fulfill the obligations of a
Aug. 31, 2018
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