Opposites are said to attract but that may not be quite the reason for Peoples Democratic Party coming closer to Bhartiya Janta Party to form a government in Jammu and Kashmir. The marriage between these two ideologically extreme formations has
Six days after the votes were counted and the electorate threw a hung verdict in Jammu and Kashmir, there are no signs of government formation. Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal takes a look at the various permutations and combinations and their possible
Living five kilometers away from the borders, Pakistan in many ways was an intrinsic part of my being. My earliest memories of Pakistan go back to 1971 when I was just three – just some hazy memories of blackouts, smoke
A short story about hope, despair, endurance and the inevitability of both change and stagnation… by Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal. On that fine autumn day when I turned six, Rahim, who was two years older, vanished. Wearing a blue pheran and
Cynicism spurs people to vote against their interest rather than stay at home… a militant expatriate influences the politics of his people like he was never permitted to do when they elected him to office… these are just tiny hints
Something about a native tongue inspires feelings of kinship and solidarity in ways that can sometimes overcome even the most intractable differences. Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal tells stories of the connective tissue of shared language… from one of the most ‘divided’
Year after, year, as the voices of the Kashmiri people go unheard and stifled, even the most well meaning local leaders survive only by playing within the boundaries drawn up by their real constituents: the power-that-be… in faraway New Delhi
Since 1947, Kashmir has been bound to India by the legal framework of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which purported to preserve much of Kashmir’s autonomy and was intended to be a temporary provision until ‘the will of the
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal traces the politically engendered ruptures in the natural movements and historical associations of food in the Kashmir region, leading to a story of prolonged deprivation in a land of plentiful natural resources. You are what you eat,
The revelations made by V.K. Singh raise the disturbing question of the extra constitutional power wielded by the army. Yet, the revelations are on their way to becoming another opportunity lost in probing the Indian army. By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal.