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By Radhika Oberoi The poet’s Kashmir is a broken promise; it is the Jhelum that carries a dismembered body, Zero Bridge and Zero Taxi Stand, the songs of HabbaKhatun, Gupkar Road and

By Dr ZooviaHamiduddin “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” — Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde’s essay ‘The Decay of Lying’ cheekily sets out that life follows the plots and aesthetics

By Ammar Ali Qureshi India, after independence, has produced many renowned public figures who belong to Punjab. Barring celebrities, Inder Kumar Gujral and Manmohan Singh, both ex-Prime Ministers, along with Khushwant Singh

By Burhan Majid Ever since the BhartiyaJanta Party came to power in 2014 at the Centre, there have been calls by party ideologues to scrap Article 35A of the constitution of India.

By Sanjay Kumar For a marathon runner, a good start is crucial to the outcome. So, too, all political parties need a good start for the marathon that is the 17th Lok

By A.G. Noorani THE massacre at JallianwalaBagh in Amritsar was executed on April 13, 1919 — a hundred years ago today. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah sent his telegram of protest to the

By Rana Ayyub The world’s largest democracy with a population of 1.3 billion is heading to the polls on April 11 in a marathon election that will continue for six weeks. Indian

By Indranil Banerjie Though the Kashmir Valley is often in the world’s focus, geographically it is a relatively tiny place: just about 60 miles by 30 miles. An estimated seven million people

By Aashiq Hussain Itoo Life is all about the dynamics of troughs and crests, twists and turns and ups and downs. A time-tested strategy and blueprint is to widen the territory of

By Dr. Prem Singh The contemporaneity of present day politics in India, as far as both the government and the opposition is concerned, is characterized by an absence of any real difference