Apni Party or Unki Party? What's in a name? But the strange christening of new Jammu and Kashmir based political formation as 'Apni Party' meaning 'Ours/ My Party' evokes curiosity. Whose party is it, anyway? What does it stand for Read more...
Apni Party or Unki Party? What's in a name? But the strange christening of new Jammu and Kashmir based political formation as 'Apni Party' meaning 'Ours/ My Party' evokes curiosity. Whose party is it, anyway? What does it stand for Read more...
SAWM member journalist Anuradha Bhasin writes how the arrest of Davinder Singh a deputy superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police has opened the dark side of the security apparatus in Kashmir. Beside delving deep into the layers of thus arrest Read more...
India is experiencing mass protest across the country against the BJP led central government. Editor of Kashmir Times and SAWM member Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal writes where exactly Kashmir stands and why the slogans and the resistance will ring hollow without Read more...
Recently the editor of Kashmir Times Anuradha Bhasin was at Mumbai Press Club to talk about the situation of Kashmir, which has been kept cleverly under wrap by the State. She talks about the Media, the local journalists who are Read more...
How exactly does it feel when after one month the landlines start to ring in a media office? The complete information shutdown in Kashmir for the last one month is barring to get the real picture. Journalists never felt such Read more...
New Zealand’s ‘hijab’ campaign as part of solidarity for its Muslim community has been viewed differently across the globe. Many liberal feminist friends from across South Asia critiqued the move as ‘patronising’ and ‘stereo-typing Muslim women’ on the social media. Read more...
The complexity and intractability of Kashmir conflict has the strange potential of impacting every sphere of life including routine daily hum drum of ordinary lives in a myriad ways; and correspondingly everything under the sun has the inane ability Read more...
MARGINALIA To the many unprecedented methods employed in the last seven decades by New Delhi while handling a hot potato like Kashmir is yet another addition – three-phased polling in Anantnag parliamentary constituency. The move is being reasoned as necessitated Read more...
MARGINALIA A phrase post the Balakot air-strikes repeatedly used by prime minister Narendra Modi and his man Friday Amit Shah, “Hamne Dushman ko Ghar mein ghuss kar mara hai” (We have beaten up the Enemy by entering his house), is Read more...
The video of Wing Commander Abhinandan as prisoner of war in Pakistan standing with poise and dignity, after being beaten by a bunch of villagers, and answering the questions of the Pakistani army officers made him endearing and admirable. It Read more...
Within minutes of the Pulwama attack, as news studios went ballistic and outrage across the country reached a crescendo, the prime minister who should have immediately addressed the nation with an appeal for calm and unity remained missing for the Read more...
Pulwama’s gory spectacle is haunting. The mangled wreckage of the bus, the strewn body pieces leave behind the tell-tale signs of the lives that existed seconds before the explosion, of the brutality of loss of lives that could have been Read more...
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