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50 Shades of Grey in Jammu & Kashmir

By Balkanizing the state of Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories and reconfiguring its constitutional relationship with the Indian Union the NDA/BJP government has entered into a copse of Grey whose hues, tints, tones and shades are going to challenge the resilie...

The challenge for Kashmiris is to find effective, non-violent ways to counter the situation

Gandhi understood the urge to hit back at one's oppressors. But he also saw that violence always led to more violence and suffering
Anyone who is shocked or deeply surprised by the actions of the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah team on Kashmir either hasn't been paying attention or is mimicking ostriches who put their heads in the sand. Anyone who is celebrating the peremptory guillotining of Article 370 t...

The growing phenomenon of demonising Muslims

Communal Harmony
The majority-minority cleavages seem to be sharper in democracies than in other systems. Ever since the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (9/11), Muslims all over the world are 'under siege'. That's how the Pak...

Fierce floods play havoc in several States as Monsoon comes with fury, but not yet to the north

The monsoon hit all the coastal States as well as Central India and Eastern India with fury, 15 States in all, with its fierceness. It is playing havoc with town and country. Mumbai and Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala have been left with over hundred deaths accounted fo...

The long disarm of the law

Even by its own spotty standards, abdication of the legal profession in leading the charge for liberty is striking
The constitutionality and wisdom of rendering Article 370 irrelevant to Kashmir can be debated. But no matter which side of the debate you are on, the spectre of the Indian legal system abdicating its responsibility to protect the liberties of ordinary Indians should a...

Can we consider Zaira Wasim's decision really personal when the personal is religiously and socially defined?

"Decisions are personal when they are made on the basis of free will only and not on the basis of general will. Decisions can be considered as free when every individual of society is treated equally." India is a diversified nation having different communities, cultur...

Murder of Insaniyat, and of India's solemn commitment to Kashmir

"Kashmir's mainstream leaders should prepare a manifesto of the United Movement of Kashmir and take to the streets, after renouncing all forms of violence, and assert their right to freedom of speech and freedom to move in peaceful procession."
"And I say with all respect to our constitution that it just does not matter what your constitution says; if the people of Kashmir do not want it, it will not go there. Because what is the alternative? The alternative is compulsion and coercion - presuming of course, t...

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee's role: Official myths on J&K busted

"Indeed, when India gained Independence, the future of three princely states, namely Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir, remained unclear as far as their accession to India and Pakistan was concerned. Documents that have been declassified, including Cabinet and defence co...

Nothing to celebrate in Kashmir

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
"Where is the fabled development for the Kashmiris when they are pushed in the dark ages? At least in those dark ages they could move around on foot or on horses. Not like today when they are not even allowed to walk around in their own terrain. They are under the cont...

Kashmir Fallout: Foreign policy front going awry

"How our foreign policy was going awry, before August 5, as it is too early to encapsulate the implications and repercussions of the move, but what ought to be known, is to revisit the Sri Lanka Ex President Mahinda Rajpaksa curt statement when he had said 'No' to o...

'I am more afraid than I have ever been': A personal account from Kashmir

"Now I know there is no place for a Kashmiri Muslim anywhere - we carry a dual baggage that nobody has the heart or will to accommodate or welcome."
"I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing happens, there's lots to write about. That can't be done in Kashmir. It's not sophisticated, what happens here. There's too much blood for good literature." —Arundhati Roy, The Mini...

Kashmir: Struggle towards gender justice means end to foreign rule

"How can an occupier, in a class-war, stand with the occupied? It is also upsetting to see the reactionary approach of the so-called Indian experts on Kashmir reacting to this cry by shouting that Indian men should not mind if Indian women marry Kashmiri men. In order ...
 

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