His โIndian Muslimโ shrill mightโve cemented the slot his โbuddyโ promised during an emotional farewell, but in Kashmirโs Congress camp, the former chief minister remains the leader whose central canvassing continues to baffle even his contemporaries. The silence from the Delhi-based Congress headquarters over the retirement of the โGandhi family loyalistโ Ghulam Nabi Azad has…
Four JK lawmakers in Rajya Sabha are retiring in coming weeks. In absence of J&K Legislative Assembly that is the electoral institution via which the new members would be elected, the speculation and the debate within the political circles remain about the empty benches in the Indian parliament. Before Kashmirโs โabrogatedโ political landscape would create…
Before New Delhiโs new land laws for Jammu and Kashmir would force local unionists to raise demographic change fears in the region, the abrogation of Article 370 had long set the stage for the landscape alteration. After losing its special constitutional positioning on 5 August 2019, the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is fanatically…
Although they never fought on the frontlines, the forgotten women militia remains a standalone event in Kashmir history in which women took to streets and equipped themselves with arms, and trained themselves thereof. Seventy-three years ago, the tribesmen of North-Western Frontier of Pakistan marched into Kashmir, steadily journeying eastwards in the interest of โfreeing Kashmirโ…