Beyond Probes

This way we can't punish guilty

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

We are almost through this summer. Eventless, as the season has gone except some isolated incidents of terror. The heart-chilling death of a young boy in the custody could easily have triggered a mayhem like Tufail Matoo episode did last year. The situation was not allowed to spin out of control and More

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Kashmir and New Delhi’s garrison mindset

Lasswell's conceptual categories and Indian perceptions of Kashmir

Statecraft By Happymon Jacob

I have been deeply influenced by the famous article entitled “The Garrison State” written by sociologist Harold Lasswell way back in 1941. He made a powerful argument that ‘we are moving towards a world of garrison states where the specialists on violence would be the most powerful group in a society More

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Mr. CM, wear my shoes

Of our roads, R&B department, contractors and aesthetics

Dateline SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Monotony of a chief minister’s life is not easy to cope with. Omar Abdullah is known to be an adventurer. He seems good at extracting acts of thrill from a life beset with a testing routine. For quite a while now, Omar has often been seen driving from his Gupkar residence to Srinagar airport and More

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Rebellion Rules

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

While giving speech in the Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, a fiery revolutionary leader from Virginia, Patrick Henry said, “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me More

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That Cosy Corner

Nostalgia By ZGM

Ours was a small world. It was as good as a ‘cocoon’ but full of joy and happiness.  I knew nothing about world outside. I often thought the world beyond the mountains was just Punjab- the word I often heard from my friends whose parents at the onset of winter would go with their merchandise More

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