Muzamil Jaleel Though the new domicile order for J&K ostensibly deals only with jobs, it has created a new category of residents of J&K which every Indian citizen can become through a process. The rules to become a J&K domicile issued on May 18 explicitly show that New Delhi wants to speed up the process: […]
When we look at The Kashmir Press web page, it looks like a story frozen in time. Pictures, headlines, and the news text- published on August 4, 2019- fossilized like mummies- as if it was the web page from a different time. It remains so. On August 05, the constitutional status of Kashmir was changed […]
As I write this letter to you, hoping that it will bring about a change that will prevent fathers from shoulder the coffins of their children because of criminal negligence of some doctors, I’m filled with sorrow, grief, rage and above all a feeling that I have failed as a father and as […]
From the point of view of Indian “liberals”, Pakistan is a ‘failed state’ that is only waiting to be annexed as a province by expansionist China. The same impression is touted as an article of faith if one follows what Pakistani liberals write, especially in their angry tweets. It seems Pakistani liberals are desperate […]
Cabbage is a vegetable world famous for nutrients. It can be cooked separately or served with other vegetables as salad. It is a vegetable known for its flexibility, not rigidity. It has many layers. Cabbage, according to dietitians, can help improve digestion too. Even if it marries a holy warrior (a ‘Mujahid’) one digests […]
It might sound astonishing to many, but history shows that arch rivals India and Pakistan have always come closer when the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), a right-wing nationalist party, was ruling India. In fact, relations between the two nuclear powers reached their nadir, when the Congress party, considered centrist by many, was at […]
Relations between India and Pakistan have nosedived since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014. If anyone thought that he would make up the loss by a conciliatory policy towards Kashmiris, they were mistaken. It was never part of his agenda. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) would have none of it. The game […]
After Pulwama, a suffocation has gripped India. Not to put too fine a point on this, political opinion now operates under the disconcerting thought that Pakistan is in some significant sense, winning. The anger against Pakistan is justified. But what we are witnessing in India is more a paroxysm of self-loathing rather than […]
The January 3 Indian Express article “Paradox in the Valley,” co-authored by two young intellectually empowered Harvardians from Kashmir, was the opening act of what happened a little more than a week after it appeared. Ever since, Dr Shah Faesal’s resignation from the coveted civil services in the second week of the New Year […]
If we take a look at 20the century Urdu literature, then we come across many great writers like Krishen Chander, Asmat Chugtai, Khwaja Ahmad Abas, Rajinder Singh Bedi and Intizar Hussain. But there is one more widely read and the most controversial Urdu short story writer, known to the world as Sadat Hassan Manto. […]
