The sudden resignation of Tariq Hamid Karra, MP (Srinagar-Budgam), from Parliament as also from the basic membership of the People’s Democratic Party, on September 15, has put the PDP-BJP coalition under strain. Karra was one of the founding members of the PDP and served as finance minister under Mufti Mohammad … Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sharply escalated his measured references to Islamabad’s atrocities in Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir by directing India’s representative to the UN to raise the human rights situation in those regions and indeed, across all of Pakistan, at the 33rd session of the United Nation Human … Read More
The unsurprising failure of the all-party delegation to Jammu & Kashmir on September 4-5 has had two immediate repercussions – a hardening of the Centre’s attitude towards the separatists who have long battened on the Indian exchequer, and an enraged Jammu province escalating its demand for separate Statehood. Berating the … Read More
Justice Jasti Chelameswar has struck a powerful blow against the poisonous legacy of the Supreme Court in the Second Judges Case, 1993, which usurped the Executive’s power to appoint judges and replaced it with an opaque system of selection by dominant judges. By breaking the omerta code on this sham, … Read More
A sense of abandonment has seized Jammu and Ladakh since Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh made a second visit to the valley (August 26) to take stock of the troubled situation there following the death of media savvy Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani (July 8), but did not utter a … Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned a closed door meeting of top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders of the danger of a chasm with the people. Indirectly admitting the possibility of poor communication of the Government’s development-oriented schemes to improve the lives of the most marginalised sections of society, the Prime … Read More
With seemingly casual remarks from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has changed the political template in Balochistan and Jammu & Kashmir, both on the Indian side and in the territory occupied by Pakistan in 1947-48 in defiance of international law and the directives and resolutions … Read More
Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a moral compass to his nation, said, “Every people must answer morally for all of its past – including that past which is shameful”. This involves trying to understand, “How could such a thing have been allowed? Where in all this is our error? … Read More
With three Rio-bound athletes publicly restrained from travelling to Brazil to participate in the Olympic Games (one later allowed to travel but not finally cleared for participation, at the time of writing), and a Rs 25 crore haul of party drug ‘meow meow’ by a special cell of Delhi Police … Read More
The recent slitting of a catholic priest’s neck in Normandy (July 26, 2016); the weaponisation of a truck to mow down 84 persons on Bastille Day in Nice (July 16, 2016); the attack on the French football team in the Euro 2016 Final when French President Francois Hollande was in … Read More
