Ladakhis will need to counter the BJP’s procrastination.

Delhi appears to have underestimated Ladakh’s capacity to recognise subterfuge, learn from the experience of other Himalayan communities and even cement historical internal divides.

It was an exchange in which power assesses the mood of the powerless, and the latter is told to wait in front of a bridge to nowhere.

The past year under the BJP has helped us in Kashmir to grasp, up close, what an attempt at total political domination looks like.

The past year under the BJP has helped us in Kashmir to grasp, up close, what an attempt at total political domination looks like.

The past year under the BJP has helped us in Kashmir to grasp, up close, what an attempt at total political domination looks like.

Far from delivering the promised resolution of J&K as India's "internal" affair, the BJP government has brought the former princely state's geopolitical locus back into fashion after a hiatus of almost half a century.

Khaled Ahmed's 'Sleepwalking to Surrender: Dealing with Terrorism in Pakistan' fell short in that was far more descriptive than it was prescriptive.

Public anger in Kashmir is unlikely to subside anytime soon, especially until New Delhi accepts that there is, in fact, a dispute.

A ten-day trip to Uzbekistan brought out numerous connections between central Asia and Jammu and Kashmir.

Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's shoes will be difficult to fill. His daughter is best placed to do so but both the PDP and BJP will have to work hard to ensure the coalition's safe passage through choppy political waters.