Reviving Plebiscite Front?

Some questions from the past finding answers in the present

Z.G. Muhammad

On a cold but not freezing February afternoon pushing my way through crowded and crushing Residency Road to a nearby bookshop I was stopped by an old time Plebiscite Front worker. Given to intolerance of some contemporary “top” leaders, “clerics” and their “hangers-on”, initially, I thought, he More

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Congress in confusion!

Is it a revelation or it has been happening since long?

Anil Anand

The Congress is in a state of confusion. For teeming millions of India it is certainly not a revelation. But the top brass of a century old party has suddenly discovered the secret. And the secret was unveiled by none else but by those who had been part and parcel over the years to abet this confusion More

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O, swear not by the moon

When you hive off a portion of pain from the larger tragedy of Kashmir

RIYAZ AHMAD

As a teenager in Baramulla in 1989, and brought up on a still steady discourse of Kashmir’s uneasy relationship with New Delhi, the outbreak of separatist militancy was eminently understandable. At that time, it was difficult for me to comprehend the geo-political context of the development or Pakistan More

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The RBI rate cut

We have a reason to rejoice

M Z Zulfi

RBI’s step to reduce 25 basis points in repo rate and an equal reduction in Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is likely to improve flaccid home sales and simplify the home loan burden from home buyers. However, the high rate had restricted potential home buyers to buy property which in turn slowed down the More

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