The road ahead

Clouds of uncertainty hang thick in the sky

Binoo Joshi

A series of solutions apart, Kashmir is as messy and as unfinished as it has ever been. Before anything else, the powers that be should stop  distinguishing between the “mainstream” and  “ separatists”. Neither  any one is a mainstream, going by its definition. Similarly, there is no More

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Return of Pandits

Of Geelani's statement and some disturbed thoughts

B L Saraf

Much hyped policy of return to and rehabilitation  of Pandits in the Valley has come in for sharp criticism from various quarters,  albeit for different reasons. The policy, fine contours of which still remain undefined, has been formulated by the Central and State governments  to  More

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Crisis of Indian Maoism

Between state repression and indifferent leadership

Arun Srivastava

One cannot expect that Maosim or Marxism-Leninism will follow the same path, or have the same paradigmatic structure in all countries, as experimenting with ideologies primarily depends on the demographic, economic and cultural variables and realities. But the fact is after forty five years of its More

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Towards self-sufficiency

Of issues and challenges we face in agro-economy

Shafi Naqeeb

In our state 76% people live in rural areas and are directly or indirectly linked to agriculture. Agriculture actually sustains the rural economy. Data indicates that 70% of the people are directly dependent on the agro economy. In addition to catering to the needs of human food consumption agriculture More

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