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9 August 2019 Today’s generation has no idea of what it was to belong to an ideology or a camp. For veterans of the World Wars and Cold War, it remains a painful, wistful reality that post Colonial Era which briefly saw for four decades the Communist versus Capitalist competition, is now witnessing the lack Read more

8 August 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49261795 America had witnessed two back to back episodes of gun violence, which they term nowadays as ‘mass shootings’ and categorise them into ‘random’ or ‘hate’ crime category. So if you see the reports El Paso, Texas shooting that left 22 dead is a Hate Crime whereas the Dayton, Ohio one that Read more

6 August 2019 When the elections to the State Assembly got postponed it was clear that the moves on Article 370 were on, and it became increasingly secure to speculate on it when using the smokescreen of a security situation, when Pakistan is having a hard sell with the FATF regime to ensure funding, and Read more

Kashmir has changed from once a province which rejected the two nation theory as a Muslim majority area that did not want to accede to Pakistan in contrast with the Muslims of Jammu and other areas in the Princely state at the time of partition, to now a clearly homegrown insurgency that has seen ascent Read more

4 August 2019 Are the bets really off? What does one make of the series of moves reported even in international media now underway in Kashmir? A government otherwise working to make Yatras more comfortable and taking initiatives to project yatra as legitimate concerns of majority of its citizens, closing National Highways and actually hiring Read more