Tag: Kashmir
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Ishrat Akhter: First international wheelchair basketball player from Kashmir
Delhi: Ishrat Akther from Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir is a multi-faceted personality. She is an international wheelchair basketball player, a motivational speaker, Kashmir’s young leader and an achiever’s award-winner. Indeed, six years back, Ishrat’s life had no meaning — but an incident changed it all. Now, Ishrat has become an inspiration for all those…
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Pakistanis belief in Ghazwa-e-Hind, can’t let India-Pakistan relation improve, claims former governor and BJP leader in a book
Kolkata: When I was in China, among the many things, one major, I noticed was that many people from Japan were doing business with companies of the world’s second-largest economy. They were working in multinational companies and visiting their neighbour as tourists. According to reports, a good number of Chinese students study in Japan. People…
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Caligula cries: PM Modi’s tearful farewell to Ghulam Nabi Azad
Even Caligula cried. Images of the third Roman emperor popped up in my mind when I watched our prime minister crying on the floor of Rajya Sabha when he bid farewell to Gulam Nabi Azad, the veteran Congress leader from former Jammu &Kashmir state. Choked with emotion, he was unable to speak for a few…
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Letter to PM, seeking an inquiry in the fresh killing of three Kashmiri youth
Kolkata: Track II diplomat and Chairman of centre for Peace & Progress O P Shah had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing concern over the killing of three youth in Kashmir on December 30, 2020 and urged for an independent inquiry into the alleged fake encounter. On December 30, the three young…
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Continuous lockdown in Kashmir: Despaired Children
The world has seen a new order after Covid-19 which broke down on 31 Dec 2019. It has paralysed the whole system that has been created and shaped since the centuries. The businesses are shut, overseas movement closed; the doors of every working institution were made to stop working overnight. It seems that the virus…
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Opposition disarray on Kashmir and Ayodhya emboldened the regime
Complete disarray in the opposition camp and absence of popular nationwide protest after a series of dramatic and divisive steps taken since our saviour – BJP’s second coming including the one on J&K and the court verdicts on Ayodhya and Sabarimala temples, virtually legitimised the majoritarian faith and allowed almost a hegemonic run for the Hindutva…
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Fear, anxiety and uncertainty on the faces of Bengal migrant workers returning from Kashmir
Kolkata: The Union Government might be trying its best to suggest that an era of peace has dawned over Jammu and Kashmir, but the 132 migrant workers (of which 5 are from Assam) who were rescued from Kashmir have a different story to tell. “What Kashmir? There is nothing left to talk about Kashmir. At…
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One of the labours killed in Kashmir has 10 kottah of barren land, forced to work outside
Kolkata: On Saturday, Mursalim Sheikh had called up his wife and daughter from Kashmir, promising that he would be home soon, with all the promised fineries for Suhana, his daughter in her teens. Four days later his widow Saira Bibi, Suhana and his 5-year-old toddler are finding it difficult to believe that soon the dead…
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Did Amit Shah mislead Lok Sabha on Farooq Abdullah’s detention?
Supreme Court was told on August 16 that National Conference leader and member of Lok Sabha Farooq Abdullah had been detained and was not allowed to move freely. It came during the hearing of a petition moved by MDMK chief Vaiko seeking a direction to the Union Government and Jammu and Kashmir administration to produce…
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South Asian academics, activists and artists condemn “intensified military suppression” in Jammu and Kashmir
Kolkata: Around the time that 120 Harvard University’s faculty and students wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of India, seeking the immediate release of former IAS officer Shah Faesal another group of scholars, artists, social activists and others issued a statement of solidarity with the people of Kashmir. These 251 signatories, of the ‘statement…