The issue once again exposed the power struggle between the offices of the chief minister and the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

For more than a year, heavy machinery and a fleet of dumpers have been at work to lay the foundation of a new industrial estate which is coming up on some 63 acres of state land on the riverbank of Rambiara in Shopian’s Trenz, a village of apple farmers.

For me, the irony of the “major” and the “minor” became blatant in unexpected ways this year, which, in more ways than I had imagined, turned out to be the year of Hungary. 

Meanwhile, an officially formed panel has indicted the VIT administration of a “dictatorial attitude” and disregarding student complaints.