Remakes are never their own thing although sometimes they can affect at what they will never be; they are a pretence, often counterfeit, often plain farcical. The one purpose remakes may yet serve is ...
Until the home minister, Amit Shah, read down Article 370 in Parliament on August 5, 2019, no one in India had expected New Delhi to change the constitutional status of Kashmir. In Kashmir itself, the...
At a time when race, religion, colour, caste, gender and nationality are so important in defining a person’s identity, the life of Freda Bedi, who broke glass ceilings and crossed boundaries at ever...
Three of National Conference founder Sheikh Abdullah’s descendants have circulated a video, shot on Wednesday, trying to nail the police claim that they are not under house arrest.The video purporte...
The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s decision to remove Sheikh Abdullah’s sobriquet “Sher-e-Kashmir” from the police awards has kicked up a storm, with the National Conference suggesting the...
Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha the Centre didn’t intend to keep former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah in jail for as long a period as a Congress government h...
Mahatma Gandhi visited the Valley of Kashmir once, in the first week of August 1947. He was then 77, and the journey was arduous, but personal duty and national honour both called him there. His count...
To Vallabhbhai Patel5 June 1948 My dear Vallabhbhai, I have pressed Gopalaswami Ayyangar to go to Jammu and Srinagar for two or three days and he has at last agreed to do so. He will go on the 8th, fi...
By Jawaharlal Nehru, an extract from the book 'Who is Bharat Mata?'
Kashmiris feel betrayed by India, one of Sheikh Abdullah’s granddaughters said at a protest meeting here against the 75-day-old clampdown in Jammu and Kashmir.Alia Mubarak, born to Sheikh Abdullah...