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The revenge of Sukhi Lala

Jawed Naqvi THE flag of Jammu & Kashmir, which was taken down from the Srinagar Secretariat over the weekend, carried the symbol of a plough. The Congress party’s election symbol in 1952 under Jawaharlal Nehru was two bullocks in harness — do baelon ki jodi. In a monsoon-fed agricultural economy, both symbols represented the productive […]

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An abrogation of democratic principles

By Navnita Chadha Behera, Dated: 8/14/2019 The recent abrogation of Article 370 ending the special status of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) in the Indian Constitution along with the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019, bifurcating the State into two Union Territories (J&K and Ladakh), have delivered a knock-out blow to the long-drawn-out peace process in […]

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Distorting Shimla

Javed Jabbar INDIA’S blatant violations on Aug 5 of UN resolutions on Kashmir, its own constitution and multiple pledges to hold a plebiscite are perverse outcomes of a disrespect for the written word — and for unwritten yet binding codes of conduct. Though the threat to abolish Kashmir’s special status was present in the 2019 […]