It will be a pity if Ujda Chaman and Bala fall back upon the old, regressive tropes, fail to use healthy humour for disseminating a serious message and make even one bald person in the audience leave the theatre in disgust.

The history will be kind to the fourth estate of Kashmir. It won’t say that when we were asked to bend we prostrated. Instead, it will say that when they were asked to bend, they turned to Kafka.

The rates of suicide and attempted suicide are higher among rape survivors as is the inability to have meaningful healthy relationships.

This tweeting 'normalcy' justifies everything, from abrogation of Article 370 to torture of young boys.

What Sonia Gandhi needs to do is promote the leaders actually working on the ground and prevent them from quitting the party for lack of redressal of their genuine problems.

Taking advantage of Thursday’s violence on Jadavpur University campus, the BJP is now set to crack open the Left bastion, if not electorally, then by force.

The idea of making Hindi the ‘national language’ of India, tossed into the murky September air by Union home minister Amit Shah a few days ago, is an act of willful diversion, pure and simple.

The edit pages are published without editorials. And, if editorials appear, they do not talk about Kashmir or India or Pakistan, but about elections in Israel and Cambodia!

Under permanent curfew in Kashmir, with no means of communication, no avenue to express protest and no voice in decision-making, we have made it easy for our enemies to say that we are an occupying power.

All rumours and speculations proved right in Kashmir. The denials by Governor Satya Pal Malik turned into a litany of lies.

The government’s decision to handpick Justice Gaur for the post-retirement job has expectedly raised eyebrows, particularly within the Opposition and a section of the legal fraternity, as it is being seen as an ‘award’ for ensuring that Chidambaram ceases to enjoy protection from arrest.

Decisiveness is a condition that is produced primarily by individuals who have great certitude. This means those people operate primarily on the basis of passions, belief and faith rather than the intellect. They feel strongly about something at a deep level and find it difficult to see the other point of view.