The interest of New Delhi in resolving the Kashmir issue, which is essentially an issue of a forceful military occupation over a people who wants freedom for themselves, is as much that a wolf has in eating grass. The recent appointment of former IB chief Dineshwar Sharma as the interlocutor of New Delhi in Kashmir … Read more
There is a proverb in India that a thief’s voice is louder than that of the cop. Arun Jaitley is proving it correct by saying that the demonetisation exercise of the Modi government has sharply reduced terrorism in India. Following the historic behavioural pattern of RSS cadres, the finance minister, who is also a lawyer … Read more
Every year since 1947 the Indian people have been subjected to a Prime Minister’s speech on 15 August from the podium atop the Red Fort in Delhi. Religiously the common people listened to the speech each year to find for themselves the answers to the burning problems in their lives, i.e. the problem of bread … Read more
Ever since Burhan Wani was gunned down by the Indian Army in the Kashmir one year ago, the valley never returned to what New Delhi and its toady media houses call – “normalcy”, and adding much to the anxiety of the Modi regime and its puppet Mehbooba Mufti regime, the Kashmiri men and women valourously … Read more
Recently an audio tape of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa surfaced on social media, where the militant leader called the Kashmir struggle, a struggle for establishing a Sharia-based Islamic kingdom, and also threatened the moderate separatist umbrella organisation Hurriyat Conference leaders with death and beheading if they don’t stop referring Kashmir as a “political problem” … Read more
The Indian corporate mainstream media is condemning and mourning the death of a young Rajputana rifle lieutenant, Ummer Fayaz Parry, in South Kashmir, where he was visiting the wedding of his cousin. The lieutenant was gunned down by extremist separatists who were angered by this Kashmir boy’s decision to join the army and the unit … Read more
When the Friday afternoon prayers at the local mosques were over on 13th January in Srinagar, the Kashmiri youth poured down on the streets, in the Batamaloo area, raising their fists in protest against the brutal attack on the Muslims in Kathua of Jammu by a group of Hindutva militants allegedly linked with the ruling … Read more
Recently a team of five from the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation, a Delhi based corporate and foreign capital funded institute, visited Jammu & Kashmir under the leadership of senior BJP leader and Modi detractor Yashwant Sinha and submitted the report on its observation to the Union Government and also disclosed the same to journalists … Read more
At a time when the Modi government turned the military institutions into symbols of “patriotism” the BJP and its coterie simply concealed the An-32 story
The present situation in Kashmir, if it is to be explicitly understood, should be looked at from the perspective of Kashmiri people rather than the run-of-the-mill viewpoint of Indian and Pakistani government. An undeniable fact is that the power that is responsible for the misery and oppression of Kashmiri people is the ruling government in … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The spectre of the slain Kashmiri Afzal Guru is haunting the Indian ruling classes and their devotees very … Read more
It has been weeks since the arrest of Professor SAR Geelani on the charge of sedition along with Kanhaiya Kumar, and later Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. It should be noted that Geelani was arrested from an Urdu festival that he was attending at the University of Delhi, North Campus. It should also be noted … Read more