From Jammu, the road to Rajouri-Poonch winds its way along the Chenab and then zig zags through mountains, occasionally disturbed by small hamlets, more frequently by ghettos of army camps. The army size in these twin districts is far more
When Vishwa Hindu Parishad president, Praveen Togadia visited Jammu on March 5, he obviously had no benevolent intentions. His credentials as a hatemonger and the fact that his name is in the chargesheet of the Malegaon blast case are public
On December 11, 2001, angry youth tried to set ablaze the Firdous cinema, just ten days after the central reserve police vacated the premises after decades of control. The bid came close on the heels of union home minister for
Two years ago the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice (IPTK) came out with the shocking report ‘Buried Evidence’ of 2700 unknown, unmarked, and mass graves, containing 2943 bodies, across 55 villages (in 62 sites within these villages)
The three interlocutors-Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari- appointed by New Delhi to prepare a roadmap for finding a political solution to Jammu and Kashmir have met one obstacle after another. At the height of political unrest in