Illustration courtesy: Mir Suhail ‘Become a nation unto ourselves’ is what the motto should be, not a nation that huddles together when bodies of its young boys fall. It should be a nation that has a common goal, a common aspiration; a nation that sees in itself its own future; that rides the waves […]
Photo: Faisal Khan Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, the main constituent of Syed Ali Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference, is counted among the uncompromising faces in the resistance camp of Kashmir. After differences with his parent organisation Jama’at-e-Islami, Sehrai, 78, detached from it in 2003 and joined Geelani, his lifelong friend, to take his resistance […]
Next coalition in Kashmir will be what it was in 1986-‘87, a Congress-National Congress coalition. That is the way I look at it Narrator Desk Srinagar: Amarjit Singh Dulat, former chief of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has said that he believes Omar Abdullah will return as chief minister of Jammu Kashmir in a […]
The de-annexation process is inevitable in the post-colonial age. The only question is whether it is accomplished by armed struggle, resulting in a spiral of violence and counter-violence, or through negotiations Veteran Kashmiri diplomat, Ambassador Yusuf Buch, has said that if there had been popular support in Kashmir for the Indian rule, the dispute […]
In a detailed interview SAR Geelani spoke to Imran Muzaffar at his residence in New Delhi on Kashmir, his political beliefs, why the state wants to ‘eliminate’ him, his time in jail and a host of other issues The Indian state is against me. It has always been against me. It is not just […]
Today at Zoona’s house, her children live with nothing but their poverty and memories of the valour of their parents — far away from the plush offices of the tehreek’s ‘leaders’ who either play sport with the State or fight for space in the newspapers. In the hey days of armed militancy in Kashmir, the […]
“People listened to the victim and they listened to the politicians, but this voice that says: I did this, we did things that were wrong – crimes actually – that’s a voice I did not hear” (David Grossman quoted by Jacqueline Rose, The Last Resistance, 2007). Among conflict and war-torn regions, Kashmir has one of […]