By News Desk Srinagar – As the deadlock continues over the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir following the fractured verdict in the recently-concluded assembly elections, we try to take a look at the new dispensation that will head the state through the prism of latest developments. Outgoing Chief Minister and Working President of National…
Peshawar Massacre: Time to Confront Taliban Apologists
By Maria Amir There is so much already said and that will be said about the attack in Peshawar on the Army Public school this week. And yet, one cannot underestimate the need to keep speaking about it. Like most people I know, I monitored my social media feeds and consumed this, worst of news…
India needs Toilets, Article 370 Can Wait
Prachita Jaitley I was dying every moment but nobody can feel that pain,” a teenaged girl told WaterAid India, a charity bringing sanitation to the world’s poorest communities, as she recounted how trying it was when you have no choice but to defecate in open. “One day, I saw my own family members, my uncle…
Right-Wing Feeds On Economic Insecurity
By Naim Naqvi Our world is a global village and people have been migrating from one place to another since prehistoric times for survival, better life and bright future. Succeeding races changed their geography and the turn of events changed their habits, religions and often hues of their skin colour and features. Nothing is constant in…
Hyderabad Riots: A Picture Portrays Biased Police Force
By News Desk If a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, then these graphic images, showing gun-wielding policemen surging ahead to swoop on agitated Muslim youth without getting hold of Sikh agitators, brandishing swords and knives, give credence to all the theories blaming police of playing a partisan role during riots. A…
How Stage Was Set for Polls in Srinagar
Tuesday afternoon. Barricades, barbed wires and check posts were erected across the Srinagar city and policemen in riot gear stopped every second vehicle passing by. By putting the public to immense inconvenience, gun-toting policemen ensured that residents returned to their homes as soon as possible. Many routes were closed down by policemen and people had…
Kashmiri Idiom ‘Gindnas Paeth Wadnas’ Explains It All
Just rewind to your school days when you would hide your friend’s tiffin, or pinch him or mock him in front of everybody just to pull his leg, and your friend while innocently falling for it, would come to tears, and sometimes even lose his temper. Remember what you would tell him? Gindnas Paeth Chukh…
Scarlett Johansson Promotes Occupied West Bank Company, Quits Oxfam
By Naim Naqvi Time and again it has been proved that the first casualty of war is always truth. The latest being the statement of The Avengers star Scarlett Johansson as she quit her seven-year ambassador role with humanitarian group Oxfam following massive criticism over her decision to star in an advertising campaign for Israeli…
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