NEW DELHI: A recently published autobiography sheds new light on how key Congress leaders have for decades refused to play the part expected of them…
View More Mystifying role of Kashmiri Congress leaders in mid-`80s exposed
A disparaging reference to municipalities in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly last week brought to mind how deeply hierarchical contempt is embedded in the psyche…
View More J&K’s leaders must show by example that hierarchy is undemocratic
The debate over 13 July 1931 and Maharaja Hari Singh in the J&K Assembly risks polarizing Jammu and Kashmir, echoing past unrest like the Amarnath land row (2008) and Burhan Wani’s killing (2016). With opposing narratives from PDP’s Waheed Para and BJP’s Sunil Sharma, tensions could escalate into another summer of agitations.
View More A witches’ cauldron of divisive memories stirred in J&K’s assembly
So he said it again! This time, in his formal speech to a joint sitting of the US Congress and Senate on Tuesday, US President…
View More Trump’s vision: half the Arctic, and the Monroe Doctrine on steroids
The globally televised spat between Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and President Trump (along with vice-president Vance) of the US was a public negotiation, from which the…
View More Trump is using brinkmanship to corner minerals from a weak Zelenskyy
NEW DELHI: With Ukrainian President Zelenskyy buckling on Tuesday, President Trump has crushed the Cold War perspective which Zelenskyy brought to the Oval Office last…
View More Trump’s multi-polar worldview crushed Zelenskyy’s Cold War approach
The humiliating way in which Indian migrants have returned from the US demonstrates the extent to which India has lost respect, especially in the world’s…
View More Erosion of sovereignty lies behind the humiliation of Indian migrants
An extremely unhappy situation has developed in the US in the run-up to the transfer of power to President Trump, due in three weeks. A…
View More Indians in hate-filled political & Deep State crossfire in US
Jammu and Kashmir took shape thanks to the great Dogra General Zorawar Singh. He marched his army north from Jammu to Batote, turned east to…
View More General Zorawar, 40 Dogra soldiers who won Ladakh for India
The tote bag brightly emblazoned with `Palestine’ which MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra prominently carried around Parliament the other day means far more than just a…
View More Priyanka’s support for Palestine isn’t just bold, it asserts sovereignty
The US election results are good news for those of us who want world peace. It is bad news for the Ukrainian regime—and possibly also…
View More Trump victory: Good news for peace, for India long-term
“Sadak, power, tower.” That is what Manoj Sinha, the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, promised when he visited Machhal, one of the farthest pockets…
View More Infrastructure development in full swing under J&K L-G Manoj Sinha