โKashmiris are not afraid of Indian forces. Too many Kashmiris have given their lives for them to accept a relationship by force.โ SRINAGAR โ Kashmiris will not forget Delhiโs repeated โbetrayals,โ especially that of former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, contends veteran Congress leader Prof. Saifuddin Soz. The former union minister also believes that…
โGeelani was a father figure, a centre of gravity and a measure of morality for resistance politics in more than one way.โ SRINAGAR โ The death of nonagenarian Hurriyat patriarch Syed Ali Geelani is being seen as a big setback to the resistance politics in Jammu and Kashmir. There is none within the rank and…
In the din over the Kabul coup, analysts are locking horns over the long-predicted change in the strife region. The day Taliban entered the Presidential palace in Afghanistan capital and heralded a new era in the war-torn country, Ayesha Siddiqa, an expert on military affairs, said what strategists and security experts had long predicted: โAfter…
The fairer troupe that once drummed out the political support has now become frowning figures of lost politics. As one โmadamโsโ go-getter from downtown Srinagar, Kulsum is currently living a life of a political recluse.ย Bereft of yesteryearsโ zeal to participate in political pomp and show, she mostly stays indoors and no longer going out…
Days after Delhi talks, another script has unfolded in the valley. A viral clip is now laying bare a new model for โNaya Kashmirโ and scrapping the political posturing of the 14 unionists. Lutyensโ Delhiโs diehard turned discarded โcrisis managerโโthe one who faced the 2008 land agitationโis said to be a new manager of โNaya…
Before a political summon from centre, another searing summer had made air conspiratorial in the valley. Even now, as the 14 leaders are about to share the round table, the thawed loose talks are still creating a buzz in the valley. ย
Kashmir’s political spoof and satire is getting rib-tickling with the advent of new characters delivering unwitting punches as a matter of routine now. Tune in to the podcast to listen to how Kashmiri politicians’ satirical statements are disgracing the languages.
The controversial Faxgate mightโve thwarted his chief ministership bid in the fall of 2018, but the son of Abdul Gani Lone is only following his fatherโs footsteps in order to recreate the northern front in Kashmir politics. A whisper first came amid the communication blockade of 2019 when a certain scribe detailed Centaurโs captive life…
The pristine glory of Srinagarโs iconic Bund has faded behind concrete structures hoisting commercial setups, barracks and political headquarter. With his hawkish bloodshot eyes, a sentry is seemingly playing the bygone British on Bund. The pledge to patrol pathway makes the two guards at the ghat as some strange bedfellows. But unlike the imperial nature-trail…
As a medieval martial method, beheadings are used to scare soldiers and collect war trophies and wage psyops. When the same tactic consumed the 2003 LoC ceasefire before its revival in 2021, it almost pushed the two nuke-armoured neighbours on the warpath. A month before Delhi would secretly execute Indian Parliament convict Afzal Guru inside…