Dole is not the answer, dignity is

Shoe hurled at Chief Minister has a lot to convey. PM needs to go beyond just a package

GUEST COLUMN By Seema Mustafa

A sub inspector sitting in the VIP enclosure at the Independence Day enclosure threw a well-polished shoe at Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah. And within minutes became a hero in the Valley with the internet buzzing with comments about his ‘heroic’ deed.Omar Abdullah did not blink More

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PM’s butt-numbing speech

VIEWPOINT

Manmohan Singh wants to bribe Kashmiris to silence, comments Aditya Sinha

When I read the prime minister’s speech this week on Kashmir, I too wanted to pick up a stone and hurl it at the government. Not because the speech was, as with most of Manmohan Singh’s speeches, butt-numbingly boring. Not because it was, as a Kashmiri Facebook friend put it, “the same old rhetoric More

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A sensitive case

KASHMIR

We just can't afford to see things as they appear. There can be more to it than meets the eye, writes Fayaz Bhat

    Politically speaking, Kashmir is such a volatile region where changing power equations in South Asia can alter the whole nature of the dispute. Such geo political shift can have a great impact on Kashmir and its political future. USA President Barrack Obama’s clear-cut framing of More

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