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Hope amid bitterness of 29 years

Reconciling the contrasting narratives of two communities, return of Kashmiri Pandits has to be based on inter-community dialogue and interaction
Twenty-nine years on, the ghost of two irreconcilable narratives of the Kashmiri Pandits and the Kashmiri Muslims continues to haunt Kashmir. Both communities have not just different but strikingly contrasting memories of what happened in January 1990. While one commun...

Message from Kolkata

Coalition upsets BJP’s plans but Country needs a united alliance with alternate vision to meet its multiple demands and suit its diversity
There is a clear message from Kolkata's Mahagathbandhan rally, an initiative taken by Trinamool Congress' Mamata Banerjee, that of a powerful alternative to the present regime emerging in the elections. But the message is much more nuanced than the convenient ploy of '...

Deficiencies in rural education

The learning, reading and arithmetic abilities of students in rural areas are extremely dismal and shocking
The recent reports aimed at assessing the learning and reading capabilities of the students in rural areas of the country paint a very dismal picture of the entire infra-structure and the facilities provided therein. One report points out that there has been a no drama...

Call the official policy by any name, it is shaping a perilious path in Kashmir

In late July last year, during a visit to Pulwama I had a chance encounter with a group of bright young college students. Almost all of them, residing in suburbs of the town, had similar stories to share: of surveillance by security forces in civvies, unprovoked night ...

SC appointments under scrutiny

The change in decision has brought the judicial appointments system under public scrutiny once again
It is for the sixth time that controversy over collegium system of judicial appointments has surfaced under the BJP-government during the past close to five years whenever selection of judges has been made. Once again, the controversial collegium system has come under ...

The Brexit vote

The best option available to the British PM is to defer the exit from EU after having lost the Brexit vote and survived no-confidence
After surviving the no-confidence motion by a thin margin of only 19 votes in the British Parliament, Prime Minister Theresa May will be facing a tough challenge of securing an approval for her Plan B on Brexit deal next week. There has been much uproar in the country ...
 

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