The crisis within

Infant deaths, political mess, uncertain future – destination Kashmir

Firdous Syed

What ails Kashmir? Making a link between the dying babies and Hurriyat infighting, may apparently sound to be preposterous.   What seems to be ridiculous actually is a disgusting reality.  Loss of lives threatens the very existence of the people; a lingering Kashmir dispute is reason More

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This Strange Art of ‘Interlocution’

Stating the Obvious, Shying Away From the Real

Junaid Azim Mattu

New Delhi has mastered this knack of finding the most unimaginative ways to engage with and address the grievances and aspirations of Kashmiris. Summer 2010 called for an across-the-board introspection. A hundred and twenty young children were shot dead in one summer alone as the entire valley wept More

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Much Ado about Nothing

The report is just a bagful of contradictions

Dr.Javid Iqbal

It has turned out, what it was meant to be…much ado about nothing, as poet laureate of the Mughal Court; Mirza Assadullah Khan Ghalib would put it:Buhat shoor suntay thay pahloo mai’n dilkaJoo chera tau ek katrai khoon niklaThe interlocutors have however taken good care to cover and contain More

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Children of conflict

They need a helping hand

Riyaz Kumar

 Childhood took placeAmong fairies and were tigersWhen hills were yours to tumbleBefore they became soldiers’ barracksAnd dreaded chambers of torture. ( Robin S. Ngangom)Children come into the world with no worries or concern for their safety and survival. They enter the More

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