Rights Human

Take it beyond politics and ideology

AJAZ UL HAQUE

What is a state or who is a state? States are political constructs. States believe in impositions, states are notorious for using force. That use of force, can at times be, no-holds-barred. Well that never means the terror a state unleashes must not be spoken against. That never implies that we must More

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Verma Committee’s AFSPA Rrecommendations

I hope this is the beginning of a legal, judicial, administrative and police reforms in this country

Happymon Jacob

Kashmiri leaders, both mainstream and dissident, have hailed Justice J. S Verma Committee’s report on Amendments to the Indian Criminal Law, and rightly so. While human rights violations in Kashmir in general and molestation of Kashmiri women in particular hardly provoke the conscience of the Indian More

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Thieves Caused Heartburns

Z.G.M

Looking back is not always joyous. It has its own stings- painful stings reminiscent of shattered dreams, of crumbling ideals and bitter days lived.  Nevertheless, travelling back in time despite all its barbs is cathartic.  Past is magnetic- anything can make on   one travel More

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Of Burkha, Knives and Pepper

Besides getting trained in martial arts like Kungfu or Karate, the training of mind is intensely essential

Syeda Afshana

In the wake of brutal gang rape and murder of a paramedical student last month, that ignited a serious debate on the best way to tackle sex crimes, the Shiv Sena handed out kitchen knives and chilli powder to women in Mumbai. The party, an ally of the main opposition BJP, said it had handed out 21 More

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UN Mission: A Minaret of Hope

Presence of the mission symbolizes the commitment of the international community that it will not allow India and Pakistan to divide Kashmir among themselves

Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain

India and Pakistan clashed on Tuesday, 22nd January 2013 in UN on the relevance and mandate of United Nations Military observer group in Kashmir. It is not for the first time that India and Pakistan have clashed on the relevance and mandate of the UN observers group. Same type of clashes occurred soon More

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