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Beyond Regional Regimentation: Equitable Development and the Political Fallacy of Bifurcation

January 27, 2026February 10, 2026

A Day of Infamy: 19 January 1990 — The Night Kashmir Lost Its Soul

January 20, 2026February 10, 2026

Groundwater Depletion in Jammu and Kashmir in a Changing Climate

January 17, 2026

Reel Minds, Hollow Souls: How Short Videos Are Unmaking Young India

January 13, 2026

Smothered Soul of Habbkhatun: Kashmiri Women and the Scars of Terror

January 3, 2026

Memory as State Capacity: Terror Victims, Institutional Forgetting, and Democratic Endurance in Jammu and Kashmir

December 30, 2025

Youth Agency and Social Transformation in Jammu and Kashmir: Sports, Capability Expansion, and Institutional Integration

December 23, 2025

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Divorce in Kashmir: Social, Legal and Gendered Dimensions

December 16, 2025

Research by: Farhat Naaz Abstract This paper examines divorce in the Kashmir Valley through social, legal and gendered lenses. Using existing empirical studies, local reporting...

Culture and Heritage

Understanding the Essence of Winter Sports: A Multidimensional Analysis of Cultural, Economic, and Ecological Change in Jammu and Kashmir

December 9, 2025

Written by: Irshad Ahmad ( Research Scholar ) In Jammu and Kashmir, winter sports embody a complex intersection of geography, culture, economy, identity, and aspiration...

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The Architecture of Indian Parliamentary Democracy

December 6, 2025

By: Peerzada Muneer Parliamentary democracy in India rests on the twin pillars of the House of the People (Lok Sabha) and the House of the...

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White Collar Hybrid Warfare: How Elite Networks Drive the New Militancy

December 2, 2025

Murtaza Ali ( Counter Terrorism and counter intelligence Analyst ) White-collar terrorism has emerged as the most dangerous evolution of militancy in Kashmir after 2019....

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Right to Information Act: Why India’s Most Democratic Law Needs Sharper Teeth

November 30, 2025

By: Dr Shabir Hassan ( Independent Researcher) The Right to Information Act embodies one of those rare moments in democratic life when law attempts to...

Culture and Heritage

Autumn in Kashmir: A Season of Harvest, Memory, and Metamorphosis

November 25, 2025

Written by: Rameez Makhdoomi ( The writer is an eminent freelance journalist of Jammu and Kashmir). Autumn in Kashmir is not merely a climatic interlude; it...

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Pan Extreme Violence: Threat to Pure Consciousness

November 22, 2025

Written by: Peerzada Muneer In the mystic vision of Maulana Rumi, our outward identities, shaped by profession, education, culture, and the illusions of modernity, are...

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The Monster Had Three Fathers

November 18, 2025

How Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Played America and Gave Birth to Global Terrorism Written by: Ajmal Shah For forty five years the world has been...

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Saving the Aravallis: A Pragmatic Suo Motu Intervention by the Supreme Court

January 6, 2026

Surinder Ambardar(Socio-political Analyst) The Aravalli range, which arcs from Gujarat through Rajasthan and Haryana to Delhi, has long been described as a geological palimpsest: more...

Analysis

Smothered Soul of Habbkhatun: Kashmiri Women and the Scars of Terror

January 3, 2026

Farhat Naaz For more than three decades, terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir has imposed a human cost that extends far beyond the arithmetic of attacks...

Analysis

Memory as State Capacity: Terror Victims, Institutional Forgetting, and Democratic Endurance in Jammu and Kashmir

December 30, 2025

Irshad Ahmad Bhat (Research Scholar, Politics and Governance) Institutional memory is a fundamental although frequently under-theorized element of state capacity especially in countries characterised by...

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BANGLADESH AT THE BRINK

December 27, 2025

Dr Tajamul Islam (Research Scholar) The Making of a Crisis The crisis unfolding in Bangladesh is not the product of a sudden rupture; it is...

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Saving the Aravallis: A Pragmatic Suo Motu Intervention by the Supreme Court

January 6, 2026

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Smothered Soul of Habbkhatun: Kashmiri Women and the Scars of Terror

January 3, 2026

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Memory as State Capacity: Terror Victims, Institutional Forgetting, and Democratic Endurance in Jammu and Kashmir

December 30, 2025

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BANGLADESH AT THE BRINK

December 27, 2025

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Beyond Regional Regimentation: Equitable Development and the Political Fallacy of Bifurcation

January 27, 2026February 10, 2026

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A Day of Infamy: 19 January 1990 — The Night Kashmir Lost Its Soul

January 20, 2026February 10, 2026

Ecology

Groundwater Depletion in Jammu and Kashmir in a Changing Climate

January 17, 2026

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Reel Minds, Hollow Souls: How Short Videos Are Unmaking Young India

January 13, 2026

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Smothered Soul of Habbkhatun: Kashmiri Women and the Scars of Terror

January 3, 2026

Editorial

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Reel Minds, Hollow Souls: How Short Videos Are Unmaking Young India

January 13, 2026

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Saving the Aravallis: A Pragmatic Suo Motu Intervention by the Supreme Court

January 6, 2026

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Smothered Soul of Habbkhatun: Kashmiri Women and the Scars of Terror

January 3, 2026

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Memory as State Capacity: Terror Victims, Institutional Forgetting, and Democratic Endurance in Jammu and Kashmir

December 30, 2025

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BANGLADESH AT THE BRINK

December 27, 2025

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Youth Agency and Social Transformation in Jammu and Kashmir: Sports, Capability Expansion, and Institutional Integration

December 23, 2025

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Saving the Aravallis: A Pragmatic Suo Motu Intervention by the Supreme Court

January 6, 2026

Surinder Ambardar(Socio-political Analyst) The Aravalli range, which arcs from Gujarat through Rajasthan and Haryana to Delhi, has long been described as a geological palimpsest: more...

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Addendum to Call for Papers Postponement of “Young Thinkers Greet” Facilitation Event

December 17, 2025

Editorial: This is to serve as an addendum to the recent Call...

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Divorce in Kashmir: Social, Legal and Gendered Dimensions

December 16, 2025

Culture and Heritage

Understanding the Essence of Winter Sports: A Multidimensional Analysis of Cultural, Economic, and Ecological Change in Jammu and Kashmir

December 9, 2025

Culture and Heritage

Autumn in Kashmir: A Season of Harvest, Memory, and Metamorphosis

November 25, 2025

Geo Politics

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Memory as State Capacity: Terror Victims, Institutional Forgetting, and Democratic Endurance in Jammu and Kashmir

December 30, 2025

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BANGLADESH AT THE BRINK

December 27, 2025

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Pan Extreme Violence: Threat to Pure Consciousness

November 22, 2025

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The Monster Had Three Fathers

November 18, 2025

History

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Kashmiri Women: The Unseen Frontline Against the 1947 Tribal Invasion

October 25, 2025

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The Shankaracharya Temple: A Timeless Beacon of Kashmir’s Syncretic Spiritual Civilization

October 18, 2025

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Honing Critical Indian and Coexistence in Kashmir

October 7, 2025

Culture and Heritage

Revisiting Kshemendra’s Samaya Mātrikā: Satire, Civic Discourse, and the Genealogy of Public Reasoning in South Asia

September 23, 2025

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Naji Munawar – A Custodian of Kashmiri literature

September 17, 2025

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The Venezuelan Exception

January 10, 2026

By: Dr Manzoor Hassan ( Senior Researcher) What has happened to Venezuela in recent months should trouble anyone who still believes that international law is...

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Saving the Aravallis: A Pragmatic Suo Motu Intervention by the Supreme Court

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Surinder Ambardar(Socio-political Analyst) The Aravalli range, which arcs from Gujarat through Rajasthan and Haryana to Delhi, has long been described as a geological palimpsest: more...

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Smothered Soul of Habbkhatun: Kashmiri Women and the Scars of Terror

January 3, 2026

Farhat Naaz For more than three decades, terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir has imposed a human cost that extends far beyond the arithmetic of attacks...

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Memory as State Capacity: Terror Victims, Institutional Forgetting, and Democratic Endurance in Jammu and Kashmir

December 30, 2025

Irshad Ahmad Bhat (Research Scholar, Politics and Governance) Institutional memory is a fundamental although frequently under-theorized element of state capacity especially in countries characterised by...

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BANGLADESH AT THE BRINK

December 27, 2025

Dr Tajamul Islam (Research Scholar) The Making of a Crisis The crisis unfolding in Bangladesh is not the product of a sudden rupture; it is...

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White Collar Hybrid Warfare: How Elite Networks Drive the New Militancy

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Murtaza Ali ( Counter Terrorism and counter intelligence Analyst ) White-collar terrorism has emerged as the most dangerous evolution of militancy in Kashmir after 2019....

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