Jammu and Kashmir
Security personnel stand guard on the 13th day of curfew in Srinagar on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Photo:Nissar Ahmad / The Hindu.

Saddest story in Kashmir is Farooq, who was once promised the Vice-Presidentship: A.S. Dulat

Vidya Subrahmaniam

By an order of the President, issued on August 5, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status under Article 370, ...

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A view of a deserted flyover during restrictions in Jammu on Aug 6, 2019. Restrictions and night curfews were imposed in several districts of Jammu and Kashmir in view of the revocation of Article 370 and introduction of J&K Reorganisation Bill in Parliament. Photo: PTI

An Existential Crisis for Jammu & Kashmir and Danger to India's Federal Structure

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal

The Narendra Modi Government’s decision to remove the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under Article 370 is flawed on ...

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PDP supporters dancing during an election rally in Chadoora Budgam district central Kashmir on Saturday, April, 13, 2019. Photo: Nissar Ahmad

AFSPA is a great issue for the Kashmiri, not Art. 370; 10-12 States enjoy similar protection: Moosa Raza, former J&K Chief Secretary

Saptarshi Bhattacharya

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' ...

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Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) president Farooq Abdullah and vice-president Omar Abdullah at an election rally during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, in Srinagar, Monday, April 15, 2019. Photo: PTI/S. Irfan

Communalism, Statehood, Militancy, and the Multiple Layers of J&K Polls

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal

Jammu and Kashmir has nearly as many phases of elections as it has Members of Parliament: the six constituencies in the northern ...

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A voter reacts to a security personnel as he arrives at a polling station to cast his vote for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Uri, north Kashmir, on April 11, 2019. Photo: PTI / S. Irfan

Poll Rhetoric in J&K Focuses on Threats to Special Status

David Devadas

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 ...

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On March 6, 2019, supporters of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) held protests in Kashmir against the ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami by the Union government. Photo: Nissar Ahmad/The Hindu

Playing Politics with the Jamaat in Kashmir

Umair Gul

The Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir, was recently banned by the Union Home Ministry for the third time in its chequered ...

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Fatal, not Funny: Nationalist Outrage & Journalists against Journalists

Vidya Subrahmaniam

India’s dyed-in-the wool ‘nationalist’ TV channels have made it clear that even as they rage against Pakistan, they will also hunt ...

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Indian policemen pay homage to their colleague who was killed in a gun battle in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir, on Monday, February 18, 2019. Tensions escalated in the aftermath of a suicide attack on February 14, at Pulwama when a suicide bomber struck at a convoy, killing 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel. Photo: AP

Kashmiri Politics in the Shadow of Pulwama

Basharat Ali

Elections in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have always been a messy affair, with different dynamics operating in the three provinces of ...

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Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed. File photo: PTI

Dissolving the J&K Assembly - A Continuing Political Farce

Samreen Mushtaq

A former Advocate-General of Jammu and Kashmir described the surprise dissolution of the State Legislative Assembly as being ...

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