Waqf Board changes or disempowerment
Muslims currently represent 5% of the 15% of the population in the Indian Parliament, 16 out of 265 judges in the Supreme Court and less than 250 out of 11,500…
Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor
Modi’s chilling smile
‘Today, the sky has cleared, with no cloud in sight. The weather is cold, but our hearts are warm for you’. These words were showered upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Jammu and Kashmir- A Drama of Democracy
If democracy is only about voting and electing representatives, then Jammu and Kashmir is a perfect example of this reality. The fundamental principles of democracy have lost their significance across…
One Nation, One Election
On the day the Indian Parliament was being watched to mark the 75th anniversary of the Constitution, and the opposition heaping accusations of subversion of it on the ruling party,…
Kashmir: a jackpot lottery
When a ruling political party celebrates the policy of disempowering or destabilizing one of its regions and makes it an election plank to exploit voters, isn't something to get worried…
Jamaat-e-Islami’s U-turn or compulsions
In the ongoing election process in Jammu and Kashmir, if a large section of the people shows anger against the mainstream political parties for staying silent after the abrogation of…
High drama in the Indian Parliament
Recent elections in India may have given the ultra-right party, the BJP, another chance to govern the country. Still, they have rewarded the opposition alliance for coming together on a…
Is Pakistan’s story ended in Kashmir?
A few days back, during his Eid prayers on the Line of Control across the border, Pakistan's military chief, General Asim Munir, made a rhetoric about his support and solidarity…
Engineer Rasheed- The new king of JK
When the recently elected Parliament member Engineer Rasheed joined the mainstream politics of Jammu and Kashmir about fifteen years ago, hardly anyone expected that in about a few years, he…
Electoral upheaval in Kashmir
Just as the ruling political party of India, Bhartiya Janata Party's 'Ab Ki Baar Char Su Par' slogan has poorly been rejected by the Indian voters in the Parliamentary elections, …
Was Tendulkar’s Kashmir visit political?
Among the nearly one-and-a-half billion population of the subcontinent, twelve million Kashmiris are included who are not only cricket fans but also sentimental about it. Unfortunately, they have not found…
Let Kashmir have Imran Khan
While there is a strong reaction from all over the world to the recent election process in Pakistan and the allegations of vote theft, the majority of the people of…
Sino-India influence in South Asia
Two parameters are considered significant to determine the influence and impact of any country over its neighbours. 1. Political philosophy or model of governance. 2. Economic support or the scale…
Kashmir Mainstream Agenda
The mainstream community of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is facing the tough challenge of convincing their followers that they have learnt a lesson from their past policies…
India without Congress
It was expressed long before the parliamentary elections of 2014 that India will soon be made free from the dynastic congress party that has been responsible for declaring the country…
Will social media unite Kashmir?
Digital technology has demolished the borders between different countries without any war or confrontation. The same technology has come to the rescue of those families living across the Indo-Pak border…
Ukraine Crisis
The imminent war in one of the eastern European countries has seen the comeback of the cold war situation between Russia and the United States for the last few weeks.…
Media Kashmir narratives
'Those contractors who have been doing business all over the world in the name of "Kashmir shops", do they realize what dilemma this nation is in at the moment? Isn't…
New Blocs, new conflicts
'China eyes on Afghan copper', 'Pakistan has become the mistress of China', 'Britain is a lapdog of the America', 'France is furious over the submarine deal', 'India trying re-entry in…
Suicides in Kashmir
"Often, I think of taking my own life. I go to orchards and choose the place where I had made the gallows. My mother knows that I am going through…
India covid tsunami
"If you are lucky to get a bed in hospital, you have to buy an oxygen cylinder every eight hours to keep your patient alive. Then, you get the only…
Kashmiris! Are we disloyal-1
Whenever and wherever there is a discourse on the disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir, everyone attempts to present this dispute with their spin. India and Pakistan narrate this conflict…
India-Pak ceasefire! Surprise
Every conscientious person in the world strives for peace and harmony among the neighbours. Kashmir has been crying for it for decades. They are the worst sufferers of the hostile…
Kashmiri ‘Pheran’ in demand
I have never overcome the nightmare of those scenes of the early 1990s when the Indian soldiers had laid pre-dawn siege to our neighbourhood one day. The soldiers had their…
Kashmir, India, Pakistan And The UN
While Imran Khan's recent speech in Kotli has caused quite a rouse in some political circles in Pakistan, most Kashmiris living across the Line of Control have again pinned their…
Mother of a Martyr
I had set off too early to catch her before the body of her slain son would reach the village. After killing young boys, the Indian security forces would return…
We will all be gypsies now
More than one million nomads of Jammu and Kashmir, mostly from the Gujjar and Bakkarwal communities, who prefer living in temporary sheds or mud houses in the forests and mountains,…
Gilgit-Baltistan! The Great Game
Ever since Pakistan has signalled its wish to make Gilgit-Baltistan fifth province, not only have Pakistan's own political outfits been in a state of disarray, but it has reportedly become…
Modi’s India has lost Kashmir
While ending the special status of Jammu and Kashmir last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured people that the time had now come when gold would grow instead…
Kashmir In search of Subhan Hajam
History has become witness to the fact that when plans to destroy the identity or the character of any nation were conspired in political institutions, one of the strategies induced…
My son had passion, not a gun
Any news from Kashmir to the outside world is mostly related to the armed confrontation that gives details of the exchange of fire between militants and Indian security forces. Then,…
All lives must matter
Had Urdu been the spoken language of Europe or America, it is quite evident that the revolutionary verse of the famous Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz would have become the…
Ode to China
"My enemy's enemy is my friend, come to Jammu and Kashmir and realise its intensity among the ordinary people living near the border with China. The land beneath you will…
Corona Spring
Dear Baba, You will never believe it. The 8 billion population of the world is put under lockdown due to the spread of a pandemic the corona virus. The blossoms…
Kashmir to Corona
Dear Baba, Since you left us, nothing has much changed except that we could not celebrate Bebo's birthday last year. I forgot to tell you about the postponement of marriage…
For Hiba, 18 months old pellet victim of Kashmir
She cries in pain, Mother, hold me tight, I feel cold. Mother tells her, It is not cold, It is the icicles making you chill. She laments, Mother, hold me…
Funeral in Kashmir
Exile, Or, Home? They asked, Which home? The one you bulldozed, Or the one you occupied, They are furious, And, Outraged, Or, the one that is a rubble, They look…
Red Dots
I heard In real or in a dream? Home is white... Or red? Tulip tree is buried.... In ice, Or in debris? Kangri is in shed. Or dead in the…
Kashmir: Diary of my incarceration-6
15th August: Early Morning: After entering the premises of Srinagar airport, I must admit that my nation has been robbed of its identity, its constitution, its land and its skies.…
Kashmir: Diary of my incarceration- Part 5
13-14th Aug 2019: Midnight: Sitting beside the bed of an old patient in SMHS hospital is not easy when everything seems to have been made to collapse as a “collective…
Kashmir: Diary of my incarceration-Part 4
13th August 2019…( Day after Eid): No sooner had the Sun turned into the red balloon over the horizon there is a knock at my main gate. The lane is…
Kashmir: Diary of my incarceration-Part III
The JK bank calendar on my wall shows 12th in red today. Remember JK bank, once the economic backbone of the state, which has gone through the raids, interrogations and…
Kashmir: Diary of my incarceration – Part II
Diary 2: 9thaugust 2019 Please minus 6th, 7th and 8th August 2019 from my life. These three days of my incarceration are equal to three centuries of subjugation but my…
Kashmir: My diary of incarceration
day1: 5th august 2019.... It is the morning, not the one it was yesterday. I could open door or window or heart yesterday or I could go out to talk…
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