Category: Kashmir Conflict
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Kashmir- Back to bloodshed!
How long shall we be losing precious lives? Death of a young, charismatic man in his early twenties with a certain extreme ideology triggered a trail of killings! Scores of people who lost their lives after his death were less than thirty years. Aren’t these tragic killings an eye-opener for all stake-holders related to Kashmir…
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Kashmir politics at the crossroads!
It”s all about power at any cost. Kashmir has a long political history of intrigues, exploitation and suppression. No doubt Kashmiri people have also experienced glory and justice but that was always short lived. After 1947 when most of the subcontinent was free from the clutches of autocracy, Kashmir and its people got torn between two…
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An open letter to youth of Kashmir.
Here is a way that leads to dignified Kashmir. It was just a coincidence, when I conceived this piece one gentleman and widely read columnist Chetan Bhagat had already given words to his desire regarding youth of Kashmir, but with a different shape. Even after my views being quite contrary to Mr. Bhagat’s conception my…
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I Had A Dream
……… which I have not been able to realise yet! I am Kashmir. I have a written history of more than five thousand years. Several historians have chronicled my plight over the centuries and written marvellous histories. Kalhana’s, Rājataraṃgiṇī, meaning “The river of Kings” is one of the finest chronicles that had documented me, my…
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A story of half-truth!
Aimed to divide, Dulat”s work can unite the leadership! Amarjit Singh Dulat, regarded as India’s leading expert on Jammu and Kashmir has been a familiar face within Kashmir crisis management apparatus. Even after his retirement from active service as super spy his opinion on Kashmir issue is respected more than others. Mr. Dulat’s book on Kashmir crisis…
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Not well begun…
Hundred days of just being there! After a long political haggling PDP and BJB decided for a political wedlock and under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Syed the present coalition government of unlike political and ideological poles took oath on 1st March 2015.People of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in Kashmir valley had high hopes from…
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How Long?
One more killing, one more probe! So, after a brief calm, it’s back to ‘square one’—violence and innocent killings. After a couple of year’s short lived respite from death, destruction and human-rights violations we are again caught in the vortex of unprovoked violence and killing. We all know the root cause of this trouble (long…
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Welcome Home!
KPs must return, but not with a tag! The return of Kashmiri pundits to their motherland is long overdue. Kashmiri Pandits are an important component of Kashmiri culture and ethos. Kashmir without the pundit community is incomplete and bereft of any ethnic legitimacy and value. They were and will remain the major part of Kashmiri…