The Misery of Wars and Armed Conflicts
There is no denying that wars don’t happen in a vacuum but are waged between two or more countries. For centuries, wars have ravaged countries and brought misery to…
Ashraf Lone
India In 2020: Democracy, Justice and Secularism Is Being Reduced to Populist Whims
India entered the year 2020 when the world was grappling with Coronavirus (Covid-19). There were only a few hundred cases when India hosted U.S. President Donald Trump and people assembled…
COVID-19, Right Wing Myths and the “Other”
Corona Virus has wreaked havoc all over the world. Thousand have been killed by this deadly virus. It is after 1918 Spanish flu that such a large scale disruption has…
Blame Rests With Right-Wing For Fomenting Riots In Delhi
When I say that the right wing is responsible for the anti-Muslim riots happening in Delhi, it means that the right wing, aka the RSS and BJP, its media and…
The Rise of Right Wing in New India
India has entered the new year on many negatives. Its economy is simmering and showing no signs of recovery. And protests are everywhere happening in the country and these are…
Lynching : The New Normal Of New India
BJP, a right-wing political party, came to power again in 2019, on the promises of “Sab ka Sath, Sab ka Vishwas”.But on the other side, it also raised the rhetoric…
The Highway Ban in Indian Administered Kashmir
On April 3, Indian authorities issued an order banning civilian vehicular traffic on the highway in Kashmir stretching from district Baramulla upto Udhampur on Wednesdays and Sundays upto May 31…
The Post-Truth India
We entered the age of fake news long time ago and some intellectuals and scholars have started to call it an important branch of post truth. When did…
Pellet Horror In Kashmir
Indian in Jammu and Kashmir is blinding Kashmiris unabated with each passing day. The pellet horror which started in the year 2016 is still continuing with no end in sight…
India’s Fading Democracy
Indian democracy is in grave danger. First it was all about lynchings of muslims and dalits and killing of some selective activists but now the tide of intolerance and bigotry…
Manto: The Legend
Saadat Hassan Manto is considered one of the great short story writers of the world and righly so. It takes a long for a reader to come out of…
Zainab and Asifa: Living In Darker Times
We are living in darker times and these are turning more darker with each passing day. Killing of children in conflict zones like Kashmir, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan is continuing with…
Is Indian Democracy Turning Into Mobocracy?
India’s democracy, social setup and secularism is in grave danger. And this danger has become more visible now. The pace with which Indian society is indoctrinated with the hatred…
Mothers Of Disappeared Of Kashmir Ask For Justice
I was recently talking to a mother , who is still waiting for his son’s return. Although she was not wailing, but her moist eyes was saying it all.…
Reading “Kaalu Bhangi” In Today’s India
Krishan Chander(1914-1977) is considered one of the great short story writers, Urdu literature has produced Krishan Chander was a firm believer in the upliftment of the oppressed and downtrdden.…
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