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Whither India?
23 September 2019, by Barun Das GuptaThe arrest of the 83-year-old and ailing former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a sitting Member of Parliament Farooq Abdullah under the Public Safety Act—a law which was enacted to deal with smugglers and terrorists—shows what happens (...) -
Kashmir: An Optimist’s View
23 September 2019by Sardar Amjad Ali
A law is enacted by the legislature with definite objects and good reasons. This cardinal principle of legislature is universally followed. A government elected by the people is not supposed to hoodwink the nation about the (...) -
Abolition of Article 370 : Propaganda versus Truth
23 September 2019by Ram Puniyani
The abolition of Article 370 and Article 35 A has been accompanied by the propaganda to justify these drastic steps taken by the BJP Government. As such this abolition of Article 370 has been on the agenda of RSS all through and (...) -
Lone Furrow
23 September 2019At daybreak when life stirs out of night’s slumber,
early mists evaporate in the slanting sun beams,
joggers come out on the street in steady numbers,
an old man leaning on a ‘walker’ brings up the rear.
Slowly he limps forward, an old woman by (...) -
Keeping a Safe Distance
23 September 2019, by Badri RainaWhen the saffron Sun is safely
Away in the distant firmament,
It brings warmth to seed, leaf, creatures;
But when it rises to the high noon,
It turns belligerent. And then seed, leaf,
Creature are in peril of being
Incinerated corpses of Nature. (...) -
The Afghan Deal : Why it Fell Through and Thereafter
23 September 2019, by Apratim MukarjiThe world was startled on September 7 when US President Donald Trump announced, out of the blue as it were, that the Afghan peace negotiations were off and that he had called off a meeting to finalise a peace deal. The surprise was supreme (...) -
On the Importance of the ‘Intellectual’
23 September 2019by Arup Maharatna
It was about twenty years ago that I got deeply struck by happening to see a printed portrait of Mahatma Gandhi just next to the picture of an India-born Miss Universe in the same page of a sixth standard school textbook. When (...) -
Report by the NWMI and FSC after a Visit to Kashmir
23 September 2019MEDIA
The following is the press release of the report of a two-member team from the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) and Free Speech Collective (FSC) after a five-day trip to the Kashmir Valley. The detailed report is carried (...) -
News Behind The Barbed Wire: Kashmir’s Information Blockade
23 September 2019DOCUMENT
“When life is at stake, credibility takes a back seat.”
Concertina wires encircle a deserted Lal Chowk, 3 p.m., August 30, 2019.
Key findings: Curbs on the media and its implications
Surveillance, informal ‘investigations’ and harassment (...) -
Pentagon’s Loss
23 September 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Last month was observed the thirtyfirst death anniversary of General Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan’s third military dictator, who was killed in an air crash in that country in August 1988. Despite the repeated anti-US demonstrations (...)
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