The police orders are to ‘flush out’ Maoists, and since actual militiamen are hard to locate the State forces end up treating every villager as a closet Maoist. It all adds up to further alienation

Qamar Rabbani Chechi is a Lok Sabha candidate from Dausa, Rajasthan, though he is a Kashmiri. How come? Constitutional flexibility and a caste wrangle

Alienated Muslims seek refuge in conspiracy theories, while aimless Hindu youth look up to Ramlalla, the deity BJP owes its rise to

There are troubling signs in triumphalist Sri Lanka that the Tamil issue is not any closer to resolution

A film about contemporary daily life in Kashmir is creating waves in film festivals around the globe

The story is about the author’s father who travels down memory lane beginning from pre-Partition Hindustan, and everything else afterward

Dayalan was ten when he joined the LTTE’s suicide attack squad. His story, and of other underage soldiers like him, serves us a grim reminder of the depths the human condition can descend to. Even in this day

For the first time, a prominent separatist leader is contesting the polls. Sajjad Lone’s inspiration may lie in the non-violent struggle waged by the people of Bomai, a small village in his constituency

A real menace. More of these fighters have slipped into Kashmir than first thought

In terror-afflicted Kashmir, the tragedy-stricken will vote only if it helps them come to terms with their acute sense of loss