A Vote for Independence
By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
The larger world is quite unimpressed by the Indian polls in Kashmir. Unlike the great powers around, Kashmiris could be easily fooled by India and its agents in and around country by keeping them under its terror control and feeding false promise of freedom and development, and also [...]
Elections are here now
By Mohamad Tahir Ganie
Amnesia ceases minds so often here;
Yet my mind is fit enough to recall
The autumn of 2002 when the fear
Had gripped my anxious heart and all
The souls had a bit of anxiety clear
On their faces; when that mistful date
Approached our courtyards and obnoxously sat
For several distressing moments on our hearts
Like [...]
A Target Forever
Acquitted by the Supreme Court, but suspected by people everywhere
SAR GEELANI
Professor, University of Delhi
AT 11.30 AM on November 6, 2008, I reached the Arts Faculty of Delhi University to chair a seminar on ‘Communalism, Fascism and Democracy: Rhetoric and Reality’. As I took my seat, I hardly knew that in just a [...]
Greater Kashmir announces the launch of its official blog. (blog.greaterkashmir.com) The GK blog will feature content that we are unable to publish due to space constraints in the print edition.
GK blog is an endeavor to accommodate diverse and more viewpoints on Kashmir and bring in interactively of the content for our esteemed online readers. [...]
ENVIRONMENT AND NATIONALISM
Nationalism—through Environmental Advocacy
By F. A. Khan
The recorded forest area in the State occupies only 19.95 % of geographical area, further about 46 % of the reported cover is between crown density of 10- 40 % , leaving only about 11000 sq km of good forest with crown density of 40 %. We [...]