In the Kashmir Valley, all that the voters who turned out hope for is a restoration of basic rights and that the elected representatives would at least free them from the clutches of the bureaucracy…
Voters see the Jammu and Kashmir elections as a significant political development towards resolving local governance issues, rather than as an instrument for addressing complex questions like the…
The government's decision in August 2019 to unilaterally dissolve the state of Jammu and Kashmir was the most glaring, egregious, and blatant violation of the principle of federalism. It should…
An intense narrative of recent transformations in Jammu and Kashmir’s socio-political and economic landscape keeps the focus on the region’s hapless people.
Economic dispossession has come on top of the political dispossession of the residents of Jammu and Kashmir. The Modi government has found many pretexts to put off elections to the assembly while its…
Until the recent killings of minorities, there was an unusual silence in Kashmir valley. Kashmir’s situation reveals the tell-tale signs of a region pushed into a vortex of irrecoverable misery,…
India’s political experiment over seven decades had shown that federalism can accommodate diverse policies for diverse identities and thus strengthen democracy in a plural society. That has now been…
Article 370 is a permanent and not temporary provision of the Constitution that assures Jammu and Kashmir autonomy. Its content may have been hollowed out but it remains important for the people of…
