Boycotting Chinese products is not an easy task for India! on August 24, 2020Notwithstanding high-level marathon meetings between India and China to diffuse tension at Line of Actual Control (LAC), no headway is visible, as China has categorically declined to retreat to its “May” position in eastern Ladakh. More than ten rounds of high-level talks have been held, including five between the Corps Commanders, in addition to clandestine […]
Rise and fall of Shah Faesal’s political career on August 16, 202037-year-old Shah Faesal has apparently created history, not once or twice but thrice. He became the first Kashmiri to top the coveted civil services exams, then he became the first Kashmiri to resign from the job within ten years of his service to install his own political party and now he has created another history […]
J&K needs change in policy and not change in guard on August 9, 2020Erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir (in India-held Kashmir) has witnessed yet another political upheaval, when former bureaucrat Girish Chandra Murmu was overnight replaced with ace politician Manoj Sinha as the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory. If media reports are to be believed, Murmu was summoned to New Delhi, reportedly due to his candid […]
One year on: Grading and Degrading of J&K on August 5, 2020Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), a ruling political party in India, has decided to celebrate one year of abrogation of Article 370 because it believes that the move of scrapping special status has led to complete integration of Jammu and Kashmir with the Union of India. These expressions are mostly disseminated from Nagpur, the third-largest city […]
Police and Delhi riots: masking and unmasking of collaborators on July 25, 2020More than three decades down the line, nothing much has changed with regard to policing in India, especially in the capital city of New Delhi, where the police have time and again proved his loyalties towards the ruling galleries. In New Delhi, the police are under the direct control of the Union Home Minister. For […]
Modi government ‘hoodwinks’ nation over Galwan faceoff on July 20, 2020India has a strange sequence of events to narrate but fails to explain as to what happened to Sino-India relations within a few months of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping. When the things were really disturbing on Line of Actual Control (LAC), Indian Prime Minister Narendera Modi said “Na koi wahan hamari seema […]
Lack of scientific temper hinders development on July 3, 2020The genesis and development of the idea of the scientific temper is connected to thoughts expressed earlier by Charles Darwin when he said, “Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s mind, which follows from the advance of science,” and by Karl Marx when he said, “Religion is the sigh of […]
Playing whataboutery over aggression and killing of soldiers on June 28, 2020The Indian prime minister and the Chinese president have generated an unusual predicament over the ‘imminent threat’ that has been caused due to fresh aggression at Line of Actual Control’s (LAC’s) Galwan Valley in Ladakh region. While both sides have lost their soldiers, both premiers are in denial mode. The Indian Prime Minister claimed that […]
Think beyond ‘Taali, Thali and diyajalao’ policy on June 20, 2020Increasing number of corona cases in India has apparently reflected the failed administration of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led Union government. The lack of proper judgment and accepted wisdom on the part of the central government with regard to Coronavirus, the extended lockdown also bore no fruits, when in contrary European countries vindicated success of […]
Remembering Rana Sahfique; an epitome of peace on June 8, 2020On 27th of May 2020, a very sad and indeed an unprecedented shocking message arrived at my home in Chandigarh, India, when a friend from Pakistan called me to inform that an epitome of peace, Rana Sahfique has breathed his last in Lahore. Undoubtedly, a pall of gloom ascended at my residence in India on […]