Gagging media: Not the spirit of democracy

It is really unfortunate that media in Kashmir is being gagged time and again. The authorities are trying to strangulate the truth whenever they feel the heat of facts. One really feels pity over actions which aim at muzzling the voice of the journalists, who have always been reporting in hard times More

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Kashmir conflict

Seema Mutafa’s article titled “As Kashmir burns, who cares!” unveils the two important sides of Kashmiris: cry and appeal. On one side she has brilliantly shown the anger of the people and on the other, made an appeal to the world to come forward for settlement of the Kashmir issue. When the Chief Minister More

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Traders condole

This refers to the recent killings in our valley. The “Kashmiri Traders Welfare Association” Cochin has in their extra ordinary meeting on Kashmiri Situation discussed the whole disturbed situation, arising from the death of 16 innocent people, imposition of curfew and calling of military, with much More

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Candid confession

I was amazed to hear the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah candidly admitting on NDTV that he had lost all the credibility which he needed to build back brick by brick. It is a fact that as head of the state, Omar should have handled the present crisis in a maturer manner than calling in Army. I personally More

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Political initiatives

Political initiatives are a must to address the present crisis in Kashmir. There is a lot of disconnect between the people and the administration. The administration reaches out to people only in times of crisis situations. It is better if the administrators go door to door and ask people about their More

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Protest calendar

This refers to the fresh protest calendar issued by the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Geelani. It is is just amazing that they hardly care about people who had been suffering for the past one month due to continued strikes and curfews. Patients suffer in absence of adequate medicines available More

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Get together

Hats-off to journalist community of Kashmir for reporting in hostile conditions. But then it is the way journalism is: to report what otherwise we would never know. You had to face curbs, restrictions and what not, yet you came up with the internet edition. Great job done! Since politicians have failed More

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Demilitarize Kashmir

Time has come to demilitarize Kashmir so that the people of this state are able to breathe freely. The demilitarization process has to be universal for the towns. Troops should be deployed only on border. Moreover, the first and foremost requirement to make such a step pragmatic and effective would be More

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Kashmiri leader

The Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq led a massive procession on July 7 in old city. He could have created history had he stayed a sit-in at downtown only rather than calling an end to the procession. It would have been better had he stayed there along with thousands of people and More

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Doctors’ duty

 This refers to the article “Doctors who have made the difference” by Dr. A Wahid. The author is very right that doctors should play a wider social role and should not ruin their self respect by running after people especially those in power. Doctor’s profession is very supreme and a doctor who More

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