Governor Vohra’s Personal Agony

In a private conversation with the author on September 4, Governor Vohra laments about the disruption in academic career of students because of lengthy shutdowns in J&KDisturbed academic calendar leaves students in lurchMehboob Jeelani (Rising Kashmir)Srinagar,...

Is Development a Process of Expanding Freedoms?

An Editorial in the Kashmir Images argues that Freedom and Development are two sides of the same coinWhat is FreedomHistorically speaking, economics, a science inherently smitten by the desire to quantify, has often been too narrow in its approach to development. An...

Without Self-Sufficiency Independence is Only a Dream

The author presents a strong argument why Kashmiris must earn the respect of the world before anyone takes them seriouslyTOWARDS INDEPENDENCEShahid–ul-IslamIn The Dance of Wounded Souls, Robert Burney says that a dysfunctional civilization predisposes us to look...

A Kashmiri Perspective of Terrorism in India

Dr. Pandit lays out an argument forgetting that India is a civilizational society where culture, more than religion, plays a decisive role in defining public and private livesChanging the mindsetDr Altaf PanditOn 26th July, at least seventeen blasts, within a short...