Kashmir: Nearing Zero Hour
From N.C.'s WritingsKashmir today has become the touchstone of Indian statesmanship. The crisis that has emerged there can no longer be managed by conventional methods of settling political acrimony....
View ArticleThinking beyond the Immediate
The February 14 Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)-sponsored suicide car-bomb carnage on the CRPF convoy, with loss of over 40 lives and as many injured, is doubtless condemnable. But apart from the personal...
View ArticlePulwama Attack: PIPFPD Calls for Peace
The following is the statement issued by the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) on the February 14, 2019 terror attack at Pulwama, J&K. The statement was in the form of...
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Probing Queries, Outrageous Outburst
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKAn element of uncertainty hovers over the country as one writes these lines. A week has passed since the horrific terror strike in Pulwama, J&K. That happened on February 14....
View Article‘Bare Life' of Kashmiris
There are diverse ways of remembering a tragic event. The aftermath of recent deaths of more than 40 CRPF men in terrorist attack in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on February 14, 2019 bears...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Events and Two Cultures
by L.K. SharmaThe Science Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, attract Nobel Laureates and inspire youngsters to dream. The Science Congress is inaugurated by the...
View ArticleComprehending Farmers' Distress
by Suranjita RayThe political narrative of the Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) that promised to double the farmers' income by 2022-23 has raised serious qualms not only because the real income of the...
View ArticleKashmiris Hounded and Attacked
MUSINGSThis entire week I have been sitting and recollecting those words and phrases from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's lengthy speeches where he had spoken of kashmiriyat,insaniyat, jamhooriyat, in...
View ArticleThreat to Constitutional Structure
From N.C.'s WritingsA situation of unprecedented confusion synchronising with the onset of serious crisis for the entire constitutional structure of the Indian state presents before the nation today.On...
View ArticlePulwama: A Wake-up Call for Peace in the Region
by Ram PuniyaniThe suicidal terrorist, Adil Ahmad Dar, rammed his explosive laden car into two trucks of a CRPF convoy on February 14, 2019. The blast led to the brutal murder of 44 jawans, a big...
View ArticleBJP Misreads Arunachali Sentiments
Widespread violence has broken out in the quiet North-Eastern State of Arunachal Pradesh bordering China in the last few days. The objection of the Arunachalis is the Centre's step to grant Permanent...
View ArticleJoint Statement by the National Committees of PIPFPD of India and Pakistan
The following is the Joint Statement by the National Committees of the Pakistan-India Peoples' Forum for Peace and Democracy of India and Pakistan issued on February 26, 2019 from Lahore and New Delhi...
View ArticleHashtags for War between India and Pakistan
by Fatima BhuttoPakistan and India, two nuclear armed states, have fought many wars since our partition in 1947. Our militaries have faced off in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999. Between those wars, there...
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Twin Tasks at Crucial Hour
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKAs these lines are being written, India-Pakistan relations are deteriorating fast and a war-like situation has developed. The shooting down of an F-16 Pakistani aircraft by India and...
View ArticleFor Lalleshwari - Kashmiri Poet (1320 - 1397)
Go, fetch water from the river!'She commanded,But you resolutely rowed the ferryFurther downstream.The pot balanced carefully on your headYou returned, to your mother in-law screaming,Accusing you of...
View ArticleHanoi Summit on North Korea's Nuclear Issue: Implications and Opportunities
by Sudhakar VaddiAs far as the Korean Peninsula is concerned, one can declare war overnight but can't declare peace and it can only be built through the gradual process of mutual trust among the...
View ArticleImparting Creative Dimension to Marxist Criticism: The Role of Namvar Singh
TRIBUTEby Prem SinghProfessor Namvar Singh is no more. After battling with a prolonged illness, he drew his last breath on February 19 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. In the...
View ArticleChristian Colonial Impacts and Sustainable Reparations
by Ava SturmColonialist exploits have existed for centuries. Despite this, the awareness of the impacts of recent exploits have increased and their impacts continue with the globalised capitalistic...
View ArticleImran Khan Breaks Silence on Pulwama
If Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's televised address in the afternoon of February 19, breaking his silence on the fedayeen attack in Pulwama, is to be succinctly captured in a single pithy...
View ArticleReading State Power in Our Troubled Times
Michel Foucault's seminal lectures delivered in College De France (1977-78) were published with the title Security, Territory and Population. (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007) While introducing the...
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