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Topic: Kashmir

5 forces that have undermined peace, prosperity in Kashmir & what can undo it

While more work needs to be done, a promising start has been made. Peace precedes prosperity.

Insurgency blurred the line between protester and militant in Kashmir. Both met the same bullet

In her book 'City as Memory', Sadaf Wani explores Srinagar through personal remembrance, examining questions of the Kashmiri identity.

Reasi carnage is a message from ISI—it can step up the pain for India in Kashmir

After the 1998 Reasi carnage, three crises—Kargil, the stand-off of 2001-2002, and Balakot—brought two nuclear powers to the edge of war. Last week’s killings, though, show both countries remain mired in a dangerous deadlock.

Drinking on Dal Lake isn’t just unethical—it snatches freedom, safety from Kashmiri women

Dal Lake is more than a tourist attraction. Kashmiris share a pious and intimate relationship with it.

Kashmir’s Jamaat-e-Islami wants to rejoin democratic politics. Won’t abandon its toxic project

Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the US, once said it was better to have enemies 'inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.' Delhi needs to decide if he was right.

Inflation riots in POK are all about local issues. That’s good for India

For the first time since 1947, there is now an institutional symmetry to the two parts of Maharaja Hari Singh’s Kashmir.

Smiles, hope & will for change — inside Srinagar polling booths that saw highest turnout in decades

Kashmir valley witnessed record turnout as voters showed up to polling booths in large numbers to exercise their right to elect a Member of Parliament from Srinagar Lok Sabha seat.

Furore over dancing girl shows Kashmir’s toxic politics of vice and virtue still holds power

Kashmir's long jihad pitted the region's Islamic identity against India’s modernity-suffused vice. The social media commentary unleashed by the dance shows these beliefs are far from spent.

BJP isn’t fielding candidates in Kashmir—Partition continues to haunt its politics

Lieutenant-colonel Khan’s marginality to today’s Hindu-nationalist pantheon helps us understand a larger story unfolding in Jammu and Kashmir: The story of a state that remains partitioned by a line drawn in blood.

On Camera

Why Indian and American Hindus must adapt in a proselytising world

Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.