Srinagar

Who sends kids to study in Pakistan? Well, Kashmiris do: Wake up India

Sant Kumar Sharma - October 2, 2020

Do we need to trust Pakistan? Can we trust Pakistan? Should we trust Pakistan? How are these questions relevant and what is the context?...

Why Srinagar dreads this day; and why it could recur again, and again

Sant Kumar Sharma - September 19, 2020

Some Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorists fired in air, vandalised machinery at the site and beat up some labourers at Adipora on August 27, 2012....

Sher-e-Kashmir affix loses lustre as Sheikh Abdullah’s anniversary goes unnoticed

Sant Kumar Sharma - September 9, 2020

What are SKIMS, SKUAST and SKPA? Oh, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology and Sher-e-Kashmir Police Academy in...

Haji Pir Pass: How India won it in War’”and gave it away on table!

Sant Kumar Sharma - August 29, 2020

In October 1965, people from Poonch started travelling to Uri, Baramulla and to Srinagar via Haji Pir Pass on a regular basis after troops...

Delimitation: How unfair it is for Kashmir to equate with Jammu on number of seats

Sant Kumar Sharma - August 18, 2020

(it is a follow-up report on the initial piece which begs your attention readers-Editor). One word `delimitation’ that figured in PM Narendra Modi’s Independence Day...

When Sheikh Abdullah had `conspired’ to give Break-India project a momentum

Sant Kumar Sharma - August 9, 2020

On October 26, 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh, the ruler of then princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, signed an Instrument of Accession with India....

To a Hindu child, Kashmir Valley even in the 70s was a nightmare

Sanjay K. Sharma - August 5, 2020

It was the summer of 1973, if my memory serves me right, when my father got his transfer orders to Srinagar. My father, working...

Why Abdullahs, and even Congress, is not talking of restoring Article 35A and 370?

Sant Kumar Sharma - August 4, 2020

(This is the seventh piece in the special series on Jammu and Kashmir. Here are the first six pieces I , II , III , IV , V and VI ) During...

Mehbooba’s detention extended by 3 months

Sant Kumar Sharma - July 31, 2020

The detention of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has been extended by three months. Her detention under J&K Public Safety Act, 1978, was otherwise...

Reliving Kargil victory and those brave men who made it possible

Sant Kumar Sharma - July 26, 2020

In the war that was waged on icy heights of Kargil district 21 years ago, 527 personnel of the Indian armed forces were martyred....

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