Author: Aarti Tikoo

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With over two decades of work experience in the biggest media groups of India, she is one among India’s most credible and fearless journalists. She has reported and written extensively on Kashmir, Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism, geopolitics and international relations. As a founder of The New Indian, she has now the distinction of being the first woman entrepreneur in Indian national digital media, from Jammu & Kashmir.

What Russians Have To Say About War In Ukraine

The New Indian catches up with Russians on the streets of Moscow and tries to understand their views on the war in Ukraine. Watch what they have to say, and notice how different age groups think!

EDITORIAL: Zawahiri’s Killing Too Late, Too Little

It took the CIA, supposedly the most competent intelligence agency in the world, 21 years to search and kill al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, the biggest ideologue of Islamist terrorism and mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks. The Egyptian physician-turned-terrorist, Zawahiri was knocked off in a US drone strike in Afghanistan on July 31. The ailing […]

SENSATIONAL: After CIA Disclosures, Ex PM’s Shashtri’s Family Seeks Probe Into His Death

  NEW DELHI: Family members of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on Tuesday requested the government to form a committee to investigate his death following sensational revelations that American intelligence agency Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had killed him. Their remarks came after the confessions of Robert Crowley, the second-in-command of the CIA’s Directorate of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kerala Guv Blames Madrassas For Islamic Extremism In India

  NEW DELHI: Kerala Governor and Islamic scholar Arif Mohammad Khan has blamed the extremist Islamic teachings imparted in madaras of India for incidents like the Udaipur beheading. Speaking to The New Indian, Khan said, “Whatever was broadcasted on TV and the expression of these two men (the two killers) after beheading that person wasn’t […]

Mahua Moitra Can’t Have Her Meat And Eat It Too

After a section of Hindus were offended by the official poster of a documentary, Kaali, Delhi police registered a case against its Toronto-based director Leena Manimekalai under 295A (hurting religious sentiments) and 153A (disturbing communal harmony) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). In the poster released at the Canada film festival, a woman dressed as […]

Stop Supporting Punishment for Blasphemy

The barbaric slaughter of a Hindu tailor, Kanhaiya Lal Teli in Udaipur by Islamists over “blasphemy” against Islam’s Prophet, is reprehensible. Whether this beheading was caused by the frenzy generated over BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s remarks quoting Islamic scripture, is for the law to determine. But what is undeniable is that the most vocal section […]

EDITORIAL: India Taken Over By Rioters?

The Narendra Modi government has a problem. Ever since it cut Pakistan’s “jugular vein” by revoking the special status of Jammu & Kashmir within the Indian constitution, India has been continuously under attack. The image which has been continually flashed across platforms in the last three years is – India taken over by rioters. While […]

Kashmiris As Nationalist As Any Other Indian: Lt Gen DP Pandey

  In the 14th episode of REASON hosted by The New Indian Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, Lieutenant General Devendra Pratap Pandey shares insights on an array of issues surrounding Kashmir including insurgency, cross-border terrorism, relations with Pakistan and its propaganda, and the Indian Army’s civilian outreach programmes initiated during his stint in Srinagar. Kashmiris are as […]

Altaf Bukhari On BJP’s ‘B’ Team Allegation, Art 370 & More

  In the 13th episode of REASON hosted by The New Indian Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, Jammu & Kashmir Apni Party President and former minister Altaf Bukhari speaks about his entry into politics, impact of nullification of Article 370 and 35A, and allegations of his party being the ‘B’ team of BJP. Bukhari gives credit to […]

Senior Journalist David Devadas On History Of Kashmir Conflict

  In the 12th episode of REASON, The New Indian show hosted by Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, senior journalist and author David Devadas, who has extensively covered Kashmir, discusses Pak-sponsored terrorism, “ethnic cleansing” of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, and the importance of Vivek Agnihotri’s movie ‘Kashmir Files’. Devadas is the author of the critically-acclaimed book In […]

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