Category: Articles
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Vandalism of saffron fields
What type of Kashmir are we leaving behind us? Expressing your ideas and articulating ones views is not a cakewalk. You invite both friends and foes, but at the end of the day the sense of satisfaction and contentment neutralizes all negative vibes. Few days back in response to my recent article one of my friends and…
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Fate of my FIR
There has to be some law of the land that must prevail! There is no second opinion about abysmal working condition of police force in India. Much of police force in the whole subcontinent is not only overburdened but extremely stressed. In India police reforms are overdue for long. Police reforms are urgently required to address…
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Traffic Terror!!!
Is there any way out or we are condemned to suffer? I don’t know whether it goes well with the new city traffic police chief and his bosses or they feel offended by these humble suggestions. But one thing is clear, unless you change the mindset of traffic managers and a paradigm shift in basics of traffic…
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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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The fallouts of urbanisation!
Decline in Agriculture share to Jammu & Kashmir ’s GSDP is not a good sign. Agriculture, being the most diverse sector, is an important bridge between mankind and ecosystem. It provides the only reliable source of sustenance. Pages of history are full of occasions where under most challenging situations agrarian economy proved to be the…
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Common man in dilemma!
What is happening and what did he vote for…. At the end of a discussion with one of my well-wishers, we concluded, come what may, this land is destined to be governed by none other than politician-capitalist nexus, where there is no role, whatsoever, left for a common man. This can be too harsh a…
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Gulmarg as India’s Davos!
Not a bad idea, but it needs a lot more than mere comparing the two! Dreaming big is prelude to successes. The best part of Mufti Muhammad Syeed’s public life has been to dream big. Be it politics or anything else, his visionary zeal always made him to go for the bull’s eye. Political dreams apart,…
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The Traffic Terror!
We are going from bad to worse! For long Jammu and Kashmir is facing the worst civic and traffic confusion. Unfortunately, September floods made the situation worse and more chaotic. Traffic confusion is hitting the common man hard. Loss of human life and precious time due to traffic chaos cannot be ignored, that too in…
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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…