Opinions

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Opinion: Don’t politicise rape

We should all bend our heads in shame following the horrible rape and murder of a young doctor in West Bengal. Naturally, there is a nationwide flare up that continues to snowball…
J&K elections will be playout of regional aspirations versus BJP’s nationalism

The Election Commission of India has done its job, though quite belatedly, by announcing the Assembly poll schedule for J&K, now it is for the political class of the Union Territory to…

Study renewed terrorism in J&K first before telling what it is all about

A series of acts of terror and gun battles between terrorists and security forces have been grabbing headlines as Jammu and Kashmir is in sharper focus on the issue of terrorism and…
India’s Independence Day and the dream of universal freedom

By Zafar Siddiqui I am reminded of India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s seminal speech on the eve of India’s independence in 1947. After two centuries of British colonial rule, India…
Sheikh Hasina’s rise and fall: A tale of authoritarianism and decline

Sheikh Hasina’s surreal rise and fall is “the normal” with leaders who come to power riding high on public sympathy, suffering personal tragedy or as messiahs to the growing hardships of the…
Opinion: Restoration of statehood turning from political to emotional issue in J&K

It was never thought that restoration of statehood to J&K would evolve into a narrative of the people of this territory versus “ outsiders” as the masses had not anticipated that post-abrogation…
Opinion: Telangana CM private visit nightmare for residents

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is never short of occasions to announce grandiose welfare schemes for the state and its people. He makes the best of whatever the event to…

Opinion: Time for ECI to end its hide-and seek game on J&K polls

Now when the Election Commission of India will be visiting Jammu and Kashmir for a second time this year to assess the preparations for the legislative Assembly polls in the Union Territory…
Mehbooba Mufti’s new gambit reinvocation of Pervez Musharraf’s 4-point formula

PDP president and firebrand former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti , known for her out of box political thinking and ideas, has yet again thrown ball in the court of Centre , asking…
Budget exposes political bankruptcy of the BJP

Whatever the economic Implications of the 2024-25 Union Budget, there is no denying that it exposed the poverty of political thought of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. By announcing with so much…
Book review: Love in the Time of Hate – In the Mirror of Urdu

Sing Heavenly Muse, is the sublime opening of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Rakhshanda Jalil has an equally evocative, epic scale and tenor in the opening to what may well turn out to be…
Telangana government should wake up to public grievances; case in point is sub-registrar offices

Hyderabad: How much time should it take to register a rental agreement with the sub-registrar? Thirty minutes; one hour; two hours or even more? As I understand, looking at the Karnataka model,…
Kashmir parties at crossroads, but shy of fighting together for statehood

Kashmir politics is losing direction and that too deliberately. Not long ago, Kashmir was all about politics and its place in the Indian union, and how it viewed its relationship with Pakistan.…
By-poll results: BJP on backfoot

The “Pappu” has not only become the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, but his India bloc has made the BJP lose many seats in the recently held by-polls. The fact that the…
Opinion: More soldiers die in J&K challenging ‘all is well narrative’

It’s time to come out of the “All is well” syndrome in Jammu and Kashmir as terrorism is showing lethality of a different kind in 2024 than the territory witnessed ever before.…