Crime and punishment

Punishment only can reduce the level of crime

Ajaz ul Haque

Imagine a 23-year-old girl assaulted by six men, stripped and dumped by the roadside after being raped in a moving bus. The occurrence of every fresh event always makes the previous one appear pale in comparison. Rapes and physical assaults are now becoming no different from a necessary weather report More

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India’s Regional Dilemmas

There are no easy answers to any of these dilemmas

Happymon Jacob

India has long been accused of being the regional hegemon that often tries to intervene in the internal affairs of its smaller South Asian neighbours, or bully them into doing its bidding. Many of the country’s neighbours maintain that the various Indian institutions, especially its bureaucracy, continue More

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Been cold since long

LPG line, Voters line, ATM line, Frisking line, and many more visible and invisible lines

Syeda Afshana

“Each night put Kashmir in your dreams,” he says,then touches me, his hands crusted with snow,whispers, “I have been cold a long, long time.” These words of Rizwan, a dying Kashmiri in Aga Shahid’s poem ‘I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight’, reverberate the More

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I became a “Volunteer”

ZGM

Sometimes a verse or two can stir the mind and call back the days gone by - even make one to relive them. This morning, groping in the dark, I stumbled on Tunisian poet Abou Kassem Chebi’s verse:     “Once the people wills life,Destiny must succumb,No more shall reign More

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The Jammu Dialogue

Cross-LoC civil society dialogues are fantastic. But do they deliver a meaningful change?

Arjimand Hussain Talib

Intra-LoC and intra-J&K dialogues in recent past were more about flaunting diversity.Interestingly, we seem to have overcome that phase. At the cross-LoC civil society conference in Jammu last week there was a clear string that ran across - seeking to create a convergence in pan-J&K identity More

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