Category: Current Affairs

If only we were Chinese…

Prompted by this excerpt from Gautam Mukherjee’s Op-Ed in “The Pioneer”, “Assert India’s Hindu identity”: If only we were Chinese, we wouldn’t have a Jammu & Kashmir problem at all. If we were Chinese,...

Recommended Weekend Reading

Some good links for the weekend: Excerpts from the Pak army and the jihadi’s second coming: Read in the context of recent incidents of ceasefire violation along the LOC and the controversy surrounding Gen...

“Reclaiming India” – excerpts

Great article by Tarun Vijay in today’s TOI: Reclaiming India. *** Excerpts below (emphasis mine) *** “None should say Omar is not allowed in Jammu. Let him come, listen and speak. Like any other...

Cry of the Valley – *must read*

Amidst the outpouring of years of pent-up anger in Jammu, I came across this vivid, very sad and intensely poignant first-hand account of living in the shadow of terror and the forced migration of Kashmiri Pandits...

Tackling Terrorism: One Step at a Time

This is probably a less lucid post than most of what I write…In spite of that it has taken me a very long time to draft this. Last Sunday, after hearing of the blasts in...