The Message from Palhalan

Kashmir will have to revisit its resistance strategy, based on cold and hard facts rather than continuing the unguided emotional march to nowhere

BREAKING VIEWS By Naeem Akhtar

J&K Police made the most significant catch of the year this week. The six boys who were arrested in Kupwara during their timely aborted attempt to cross the LoC represent the dilemma and despair of contemporary Kashmir. The message from the core rural habitation of Palhalan is stark, disturbing More

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Excellence counts

Kashmir or no Kashmir, merit means merit

WRITE HAND By AJAZ UL HAQUE

Shah Faisal, a boy from Kashmir tops IAS selection list. The news sends a wave of delight across the valley. It sure is a moment of pride for all of us. Faisal, as we earlier knew him, through his writings had a spark of brilliance in him which ultimately earned him what he deserved. Well, it sounds More

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Empowering Kashmiris

IAS topper 2009

I wish you luck and hope you serve your people who feel so proud of you, Fida Iqbal lauds Dr. Shah Faisal on his grand success

Some sixty years back most of the Kashmiris were not part of the system of governance and were addressed as ‘hayoo or hatoo’ but the scenario is altogether different now. During the autocratic rule of Maharajas governance was imposed either through the relatives and cronies, who were mainly imported More

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Brothers in Arms?

Can Geelani, Mirwaiz, Abdullahs, Muftis, et al agree to agree?

DATELINE SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

A few days back, The New York Times reproduced a power point image of a stakeholder analysis done by the United States in Afghanistan. The image was bizarrely complex, making it beyond normal human comprehension. US political and military analysts shared jokes about the image. They saw it the most More

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They Ate Differently

And I can't just forget those traditional eating methods

NOSTALGIA By ZGM

It was a few day back, before downpour had almost swamped the part of city I was born in and brought up, that I had visited my most favorite childhood haunt Badamwari. It was after   years-- decades that I strolled in Bagh-e-Waris Khan- it has been done up nicely but somehow I felt some artificiality More

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Creative Barrenness

Are we heading towards an intellectual bankruptcy or it has already dawned

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

We are but facing a ‘catastrophe’? A serious predicament? We are in quandary. Creative infertility. Ingenious plague. In¬tellectual emaciation. Ideological sterility. They say we cannot produce a revolution¬ary brain, a writer of repute, an intellec¬tual of first watermark. A sense of barrenness More

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Governance and conflict

Good governance will reduce the chance of conflict

WHATS UP By SAJJAD BAZAZ

A recent study, Hunger In the Valley - Report on the Implementation of Food and Livelihood Schemes in Kashmir, by the Supreme Court has asserted that the two-decade long conflict has been used by the successive governments as an instrument of  “alibi” not to perform. The study has highlighted More

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