Category: Opinion
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Jammu and Kashmir: On course for enhanced employment and prosperity
Jasbir Sarai The Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir has suffered tremendously in the shadow of the gun for many decades. Violence hit the youth of the region most of all. Their education and development suffered since families were engrossed in the day to day challenge of survival. As a result, they lost out…
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Pakistan in the grip of Hawks
Brig Veteran Anil Gupta The ray of hope regarding peace across the western border and normalization of relations between the two neighbours has become victim of power politics in Pakistan with the hawks all set to put every spoke to ensure that the process does not take off. In a departure from the past, the…
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THE Hard Battle
India is facing the worst ever crisis in recent history due to the second wave of Covid-19, something that was not predicted and no major preparation was made for. Now as the cases peak and the figure of those dying of the disease grow, a lot of efforts are on to set up the systems…
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Jammu will have to take care of itself
By Sahil Mahajan With the constant rise in Covid-19 cases in Jammu and Kashmir , the situation has become quite worrisome . There have been more than 1,000 cases on daily basis for the past few days and there are no indications that there is any possibility of the decline in the infection rates .…
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Azad’s letter to PM a template worth implementing for a wider cause
By Sahil Mahajan Former Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggesting measures to successfully combat the second wave of coronavirus that has crippled the nation is not merely a communication between the two leaders, it is a template of the mutual political cooperation in the times of the national…
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“Be educated. Be organised. Be agitated” – Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
By Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Bhimrao Ramaji Ambedkar, whom we fondly know as Babasaheb Ambedkar, the face of the Indian independence movement , chairman of the drafting committee of the constitution, a social reformer, an Indian jurist, an educationist, and above all was a staunch supporter of the Dalit Movement in the post-independent Indian history.…
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Rohingya must go back to their homeland
Jaibans Singh A three member Supreme Court bench comprising of Chief Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian is seized with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea seeking directions for “release of so-called Rohingya refugees” who have been detained in the Jammu region of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu Kashmir under the Foreigners…
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Jammu is more than counter-balance
Sahil Mahajan It defies all logic because Jammu doesn’t fit into the national narrative. By any stretch of the imagination, there is no attempt to assail any particular region nor is there an attempt to play up Jammu versus Kashmir . But there is a genuine question why the region that enabled setting up of…
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THE SECOND WAVE
J&K’s tally on CIOVID-19 infections is slowly and steadily coming down and yet there is no scope of throwing caution to the winds. The world over it has been seen that a second and even third wave comes after people and governments became tax with SOPs. Let people in J&K continue to follow the rule…
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Indo-Pakistan War, 1971: Remembering India’s great victory
Jaibans Singh On the evening of 3 December, 1971, at about 5.40 PM, fighter aircraft of the Pakistan Air force (PAF) carried out a coordinated, pre-emptive air strike on Indian Air Force bases in Amritsar, Pathankot, Srinagar, Avantipur, Utterlai, Jodhpur, Ambala and Agra. The air strikes were supported by heavy Artillery shelling all along the border and…