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I left the U.S. during Covid and came to India Here’s what’s different (and what’s not) Nayantara Dutta Last June, when New York City was in lockdown and the United States was the global center of the Covid-19 pandemic, I was living in Brooklyn when my visa expired. After seven …

  Bracing Indian firing for years, Leepa Valley village returns to normalcy Normalcy has returned to the small town of Leepa valley located along the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and Kashmir since 26th February this year, when both Pakistan and India had announced respect for the ceasefire understanding. …

  Summer of 2021 Imtiaz Rafi But The current Covid-19 pandemic around the world is one of the most challenging events for all of humanity. The death-toll and the crisis in terms of economy, livelihood, health and social isolation is greater than that of the Second World War. After the …

  Assessing India’s failed nuclear security Nuclear security is lax in India as the country has reported several incidents of nuclear thefts to international bodies. Despite this major security lapse, India remains out of international focus, unlike Pakistan Amjed Jaaved Amid a raging pandemic in the southern Indian state of …

  Idrees Jan: Arbitrarily sacked by Indian authorities in Kashmir Zulkarnain Banday reports from Indian-occupied Kashmir on the first victim of a new law which allows the Indian authorities to arbitrarily sack government employees who are suspected of involvement in “anti-national” activity. His students, relatives and neighbours come in droves …

  Is the backchannel delivering? Mosharraf Zaidi Few things would be as transformational for the long-term wellbeing of the Pakistani people as the resolution of the Kashmir dispute and a meaningful process of normalization and de-escalation between Pakistan and India. The backchannel talks that have been taking place between the …

  World’s most dangerous fastest-growing nuclear weapons programme Syed Zain Jaffery The former Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee, during his election campaign in February 1998, chauvinistically declared that his government would, “take back that part of Kashmir that is under Pakistan’s occupation”. Maybe it was just an offensive electoral activity, in …

  Covid-19 and the ‘idea of India’ Modi seems not to be concerned with the highly critical coverage in the Western press of his handling of the pandemic Shahid Javed Burki For several decades after what is now Pakistan was carved out of Britain’s Indian colony as a predominantly Muslim …

Elections in India Khalid Bhatti Four Indian states –West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam — and one union territory, Puducherry, went to the polls from April 6 to April 29 in different phases. The counting took place May 2. May 2 was a good night for anti-BJP forces as they …

Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Is Dead at 77 Iqbal Kirmani He was 22 when Indian authorities sent him to prison for the first time, for publicly denouncing the detention of local leaders in Kashmir, the mountainous, predominantly Muslim region that has long chafed under India’s rule. “What kind of democracy cages …