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

The road ahead for Congress

Congress president Rahul Gandhi took out one arrow after another at the recent Congress plenary session and shot them at Prime Minister NarendraModi and his government, much to the delight of Congress
Mar. 22, 2018

Going for broke

“Millions of ordinary Congress workers throughout the country are full of enthusiasm for Congress policies and programmes,” Rajiv Gandhi had said at the Congress’s centenary session in Bombay in 1985. “But they
Mar. 22, 2018

Why war zones lure Indians

It’s a sad week for all Indians. The NarendraModi government has finally confirmed that all the 39 Indian labourers who were abducted by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in 2014,
Mar. 22, 2018

The original sin of the 21st century

Fifteen years ago today, Iraq was cast into the abyss as the US administration under George W Bush launched one of the most destructive invasions in modern history. In his now infamous
Mar. 21, 2018

LET US OBSERVE IT TOGETHER

World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. The theme for World Water Day 2018 is ‘Nature for Water’ – exploring nature-based solutions
Mar. 21, 2018

To what end, muscularity?

Speaking at his annual press conference in January, Army Chief General BipinRawat said that India had for too long kept its focus on the western borders and militarily, it had to shift
Mar. 21, 2018

Separate freedoms

Last year, before a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court in K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India, the Central government posited a frightening thesis. The Constitution, it argued, does not recognise a
Mar. 21, 2018

EVMs or Ballot Papers, the Way Forward

Elections are the festival of democracies and the same holds true for India, the world’s largest democracy. Indians, after achieving independence from the British colonialism, have been exercising their voting rights to
Mar. 21, 2018

Rewriting Indian history

The AkhilBharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, a right wing Hindu nationalist political party in the Northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, released a Hindu New Year calendar which says that TajMahal along with several
Mar. 21, 2018

Subaltern rage

The external affairs minister and a top BharatiyaJanata Party leader, SushmaSwaraj, made a forceful intervention in the public discourse last week. On March 13, when the latest turncoat to join the ruling
Mar. 20, 2018
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