Saddest story in Kashmir is Farooq, who was once promised the Vice-Presidentship: A.S. Dulat
By an order of the President, issued on August 5, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status under Article 370, ...
An Existential Crisis for Jammu & Kashmir and Danger to India's Federal Structure
The Narendra Modi Government’s decision to remove the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under Article 370 is flawed on ...
AFSPA is a great issue for the Kashmiri, not Art. 370; 10-12 States enjoy similar protection: Moosa Raza, former J&K Chief Secretary
The conflict in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has seen many elections. The State sends six MPs to the 543-strong Lok Sabha but 'Kashmir' ...
Communalism, Statehood, Militancy, and the Multiple Layers of J&K Polls
Jammu and Kashmir has nearly as many phases of elections as it has Members of Parliament: the six constituencies in the northern ...
Poll Rhetoric in J&K Focuses on Threats to Special Status
Elections to the six Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are taking place against the backdrop of the fall of the Mehbooba ...
Playing Politics with the Jamaat in Kashmir
The Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir, was recently banned by the Union Home Ministry for the third time in its chequered ...
Fatal, not Funny: Nationalist Outrage & Journalists against Journalists
India’s dyed-in-the wool ‘nationalist’ TV channels have made it clear that even as they rage against Pakistan, they will also hunt ...
Kashmiri Politics in the Shadow of Pulwama
Elections in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have always been a messy affair, with different dynamics operating in the three provinces of ...
Dissolving the J&K Assembly - A Continuing Political Farce
A former Advocate-General of Jammu and Kashmir described the surprise dissolution of the State Legislative Assembly as being ...