Theater of the Absurd

The argument cannot be that women should not go out in the evening

Padma Rao Sundarji

Since December’s tragedy in New Delhi, public discourse has  revolved around women in India. If anything came out of the heartbreak, it has been the emergence, like never before, of India young and old, modern and traditional, poor and rich into the open and on the streets to take a long, hard More

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ISI mark!

“I will give you a ‘guru mantra’ for success.”

Ajaz A. Baba

The fat Havildar sat on the bench, caressing his paunch, feeling down in the spirits. Somewhere along the way his career had got into a rut. His colleagues had bagged awards, honours and even promotions, but the only area he got advanced in was his middle. As a result while his successful contemporaries More

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Positive and Constructive

Practicing Muslims and negotiating with the Kurdists

HSAN YILMAZ

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government’s recent decision to negotiate a peace process must be strongly encouraged by parties, groups and so on that are eager for peaceful coexistence in Turkey.I am extremely enthused that the Republican People’s Party (CHP) said it supports the AKP More

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Lessons from Kokhrajhar

Autonomous Councils and Minority Rights

Dr Gull Wani

In a conference at Jammu University last month the organizers desired me to speak on experiences with Autonomous Hill Councils in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East of India in a comparative perspective. This probably had become necessary considering recent high level of violence in Assam where lakhs More

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• Kashmir

• Srinagar City

• Jammu

• PaK