Hopes Taliban will give good governance, adhere to justice and human rights
The book has an interesting chapter on the theft of artefacts for the past 100 years and how it has been patronized and ignored by different governments.
NC leaders say the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration’s main objective is to restore Article 370.
Ravinder Raina, who is the BJP president for J&K and Ladakh, said the party would not rest 'till we take back our lands.'
Every year since 1948, Jammu and Kashmir would officially observe July 13 in remembrance of Kashmiris who fell to the bullet of the Dogra forces in 1931.
Martyrs' Day is observed in Jammu and Kashmir on July 13 every year in remembrance of people killed in firing by soldiers of Dogra ruler Maharaja Hari Singh on this day in 1931 during protests against his rule.
The slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) against former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah is ironical, to say the least. The Act was introduced in Jammu and Kashmir by Abdullah's father, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, on April 8, 1978, to deter timber smugglers.
What was the need to amend article 370 now, and do so in a way that showed brutal contempt not only for the Kashmiris but also for the Constitution of India?
Author Andrew Whitehead says If you take Stalin’s constitution on one hand and New Kashmir Manifesto on the other hand, we would call it cut and paste job. It is a quiet ahead of time document.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.