REPUBLIC DAY: WHY IT MATTERS

January 25, 2021

Indian National Congress proclaimed on 26th.January 1929 the Declaration of Indian Independence-“PURNA SWARAJ”as opposed to the DOMINION status offered by the British Regime. The Indian self-rule movement was a mass-based movement that encompassed various sections of society. It also underwent a process of constant ideological evolution. Although the underlying ideology...

Big win for democracy in Jammu and Kashmir

January 21, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in and out of Parliament loudly pronounced amongst other objectives for abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A and eventual bifurcation of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state into two Union Territories: That the natives who have been forced to live out of Kashmir shall be repatriated back...

19th January: The Holocaust Day

January 19, 2021

19th January 1990 is the darkest day in the history of Kashmir. The aborigines population and the minority Kashmiri Pandit community was driven out and exited at gun-point from the Kashmir Valley. They became refugees in their own Country and sought refuge in Jammu, Delhi and various other places. They...

Kashmiris are longing to live a terror-free life

December 19, 2020

Huge participation of people especially the Kashmiri youth and women in the DDC elections in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir could be a game changer. People have to exercise a preference—democracy for plural polity, peace, development and future, or separatism, despondency and militancy.Exclusiveism or pluralism.Death, destruction and despondency...

HOW MULTICULTURALISM IS KILLED BY TERRORISTS IN JAMMU & KASHMIR

December 7, 2020

Multiculturalism received a deadly hit by advent of terrorism in Kashmir. The diverse Kashmiri culture hugely influenced by Indian, Persian and central Asian cultural ethos evolved with a blend of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. Kashmiri culture is a diverse blend and highly influenced by Indian, Persian as well as Central...

Fault lines in the Indian criminal justice system

August 1, 2020

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. -Martin Luthar King Jr. “Law should not sit limply, while those who defy it go free and those who seek its protection lose hope”. (Jennison v. Baker (1972) 1 All ER 997). The sovereign power of the Indian State is never felt...

Pakistan’s paranoia regarding India is unfounded

June 17, 2020

Pakistan using terrorist groups as part of its security and foreign policy shows its obsession with India which it perceives as an existential threat. The ideology of Pakistan is built on twin pillars of Islam and antagonism towards India. Pakistan never realised that as a nation state it should create...

China strategy is to unsettle India: Manage the differences

June 13, 2020

For now the China India standoff seems to have gone in the mode of attrition through military-diplomatic efforts. Good for India to engage with China and manage the differences without any military clashes, despite China’s belligerence and exerting muscular policy qua India. The bilateral talks are believed not to have...

Kashmiri Pandits have an existential stake in the Valley

June 6, 2020

After Article 370 was made inoperable in August last year, the expectations of the native population from Kashmir skyrocketed for the return to their roots by the reversal of their thirty year old exile status from the homeland. They are living as refugees in their own Country, the independent India....

Council to advise Lieutenant Governor legally tenable

May 30, 2020

M y c o n s i d e r e d opinion is based on the letter of law and its jurisprudence interpretation, that –no interim council of ministers as contemplated for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir can be formed. The council of ministers can only be...