Disputing the Kashmir dispute
The Leviathan's tale
It might be due to the irony of fate that the two main conceptual gatekeepers used in the last twenty years to...
Is vote in Kashmir for India?
Frustration, disillusionment, and anger are what characterize the pro-azadi camp in Kashmir nowadays. Frustrated, they should be, as the voting percentage is peaking in...
Haider: The bollywood rendering of Elizabethan Hamlet
On the tarmac, I eavesdrop on Operation Tiger:
Troops will burn down the garden and let the haven remain.
This is home—the haven a cage surrounded...
Kashmir: Prevalence of mental disorders
Depression is a well prevalent, possibly life-threatening condition that affects hundreds of millions of people all over the world. It can occur at any...
Contemporary Civil Society in India
Civil Society is one of the achievements of the modern world because it is here that individuals can realize the self in conditions of...
Resource wars in the twenty-first century
The quest for natural resources has always been one of the main factors leading to war. Many refer to colonialism as perhaps the most...
Kashmir: A tale of travesty
The beginning of a new age of violence in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989 took off with the mayhem ensued by the permission of...
Abdullah family’s rise and fall
By Fahad Shah
n the political arena of the Jammu and Kashmir, a little known family before 1930s which made it to the pages of...
Agha Shahid Ali: Chronicler of pain
If There Is a Poet, It Is This, It Is This
The passing away of Agha Shahid Ali in 2001 was a collective loss to...
Silences and Shadows: Women in Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator
By Ishrat Bashir
We were the people who were not in the papers;
We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.
Margret Atwood:...