More in Kashmir
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“Meaningful autonomy” and article 370
“Meaningful autonomy” is the considered recommendation of the three interlocutors appointed by the UPA government for Jammu and Kashmir. This is according to what we have gotten to hear from the media and other sources so far. The report has not yet been made public. Until that happens we will...
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Demystifying ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits
The turmoil in Kashmir valley is more than two decades old now. The onset of turmoil in Kashmir valley in 1989-1990 was marked with the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits. Ethnic cleansing is an attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of...
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AFSPA and the debate in vacuum
A new storm is brewing over the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA). We can credit this development to the young Chief Minister ofJammu and Kashmir Mr. Omar Abdullah who could not help but “think out aloud” wondering if he could lift the AFSPA from certain areas. The purported rationale...
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The politics around AFSPA
Long time ago, I made peace with something very basic about Kashmir. One could say the simplest and most obvious thing about Kashmir, yet it will invite multiple dissenting voices not based on logic but based on rhetoric. The noise gets so loud that it is hard to know truth...
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Secularism through the eyes of a Kashmiri Hindu
Does the name Vinod Pandit ring a bell? Probably not. This gentleman along with Sunita Sharma fasted for 10 days in Jammu last week hoping to get the attention of State government and preferably Central Government to the ‘Temple and Shrine bill’ pending in J&K state assembly. They were also...
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Lessons in Advanced Citizenship
So Arundhati Roy is an idiot. Yes, we all knew that…what’s new? In her never-ending quest for notoriety, Roy recently visited Kashmir in the aftermath of the civil unrest there. While there, she spoke to locals in small gatherings and severely criticised the Indian government for the atrocities it was committing in the state. She...
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Mission Kashmir
Kashmir – the world’s most dangerous place. Kashmir – where three nuclear powers that have already fought four wars against each other in the past 60 years come together. It is the root of the India-Pakistan strife and a magnet for international terrorists. Since the partition and subsequent independence of...