Thank you Thapars, Roys and Vardharajans

VOICES HEARD

Somewhere beneath the dead bodies in Kashmir, humanity lies buried. Anybody who recognizes the fact must be duly acknowledged, writes Basim Amin Bazaz

Fifty by no means is a small number. It becomes even bigger, when it counts the number of corpses that have been laid to rest by wailing families. In the last two months, 50 people have been reported dead in Kashmir - how many deaths have gone unreported, nobody can say for sure. I have said it before More

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The Shock Doctrine Comes Home

HORIZONS

The struggle for freedom is always a violent phenomenon, a programme of complete disorder - for it aspires to change the whole socio-economic and political structure from the bottom up, writes Aarzoo Khan

Would it not be easierIn that case for the governmentTo dissolve the peopleAnd elect another?- Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Solution’ 1953.The term ‘shock therapy’ was coined by Milton Friedman in his book Capitalism and Freedom. In fact, Friedman’s most lasting strategic legacy is More

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The crimes of the Curfew

SITUATION

It has rendered our life lifeless, writes Ishfaq Ahmad

Over the past twenty days Kashmir valley has been looking grim under the ghostly shadows of an undeclared curfew. The shadows far and wide like an endless canopy intend to destroy the last vestige of hope. Every single activity is done hole-and-corner due to the threat and fear. It is no different More

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