The language of farce!

Nirbhaya, Anamika, Damini, Amanat. Why?

Padma Rao Sundarji

The last 15 days of 2012 bore all the elements of Shakespearean drama: villainy, tragedy, comic farce, bawdiness, a horrendous beginning, a hope-awakening middle and finally a tragic end, when the rape victim died in hospital this morning.  The dramatis personae: the rulers, the ruled, the More

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The Year of the Dog

2012 is on its way out and it is time for nostalgia… (Sorry ZGM, didn’t mean to step on your toes!)

Ajaz A. Baba

 1. Dogs and the Underdogs: For the Chinese 2012 may have been the Year of the Black Water Dragon but ask any Kashmiri and he will tell you that it was a Year of the Dog. Indeed the year saw the average Kashmiri becoming more of an underdog, literally as well as metaphorically.  It also More

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Greater Kashmir is a window to my home

An interaction with Dr S N Ganjoo, a veteran Kashmiri Pandit who is settled in England but wants to come back and live his last moments in Kashmir

Person:My family was from Narparistan, Fateh Kadal, Srinagar. I was born there.  My father, engineer by profession, served at places like Baramulla, and Sopore. Finally he was posted at Muzaffarabad - it’s a talk of pre 1947. I was those days studying at Amar Singh College More

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Kashmir: Search for a Solution

Internal consensus in India, Pakistan and J&K is a must for reaching to a mutually agreed formulation

Dr Gull Wani

Last week, this column looked at Kashmir leaders’ visit to Pakistan at different historical intervals, and their urge for involvement of all parties for a meaningful solution to Kashmir tangle. I have no access to what moderate Hurriyat leaders discussed at Delhi before leaving to Pakistan. It is More

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