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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Mehmood Ur Rashid

Greater Kashmir

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If no spin is given to it, Omar Abdullah’s meeting with the local press was a mild ripple in the frozen waters of the local media. At least there...

04.01.2025 4

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

An Alien Prime Minister!

Christ is a temporal mark- After and Before Christ. For the politics in India, Manmohan Singh serves as a  reference – After Him and Before Him....

28.12.2024 5

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Omar on Umrah: Optics in the Desert

Looks like National Conference decided to perform Umrah. Good. But it is not parties that perform a certain worship it is persons that connect to...

30.11.2024 3

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Talking Education with People’s Representatives

Last week, the Private Schools’ Association JK arranged an interaction with some of the people’s representatives in the present government at the...

23.11.2024 4

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Two condolences, one message

Devandar Singh Rana died at such a young age, 59. Anyone who has seen him, enjoyed his company, if only for a while, can vouch for his vivacious...

16.11.2024 1

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Sessions, Seasons and Reasons

As Kashmir silently celebrates the decision to shift the school exam session back to November, can one turn around and ask a simple question: Why...

02.11.2024 2

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Condemned to Bleed

What does the killing of seven innocent people at Gagangeer, Kashmir, signify? Many things. First, it is neither the opening nor the closing of...

26.10.2024 2

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Peoplehood or Statehood ?!

This election was a people’s statement. It was not about Omar Abdullah. It was certainly not about National Conference. It was a silent substance...

19.10.2024 1

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Jammu to BJP, Kashmir to NC: PARTYtioned!?

When the focus should all be on the restoration of the statehood for J&K, something else is taking the centre stage. When all political energies...

12.10.2024 2

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Consider what people have done

It is not a moment of celebration, though a catharsis of sorts. It is a moment of deep reflection for all the well meaning political leaders in...

08.10.2024 1

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

8th October: One more day to go

On the 8th of October, 2024, what is going to happen? Those interested in the politics of Kashmir are keeping fingers crossed, those invested in...

06.10.2024 2

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Srinagar @ just 30%

The voter turn out for the second phase of 2024 Assembly elections was recorded at around 57%. For District Srinagar it was around 30%. Given the...

29.09.2024 8

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Grand convulsions of our politics

If art-of-possible means all is fair, then politics is a filthy game with dangerous consequences for people. If making a compromise is a definitive...

22.09.2024 8

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Voter’s Dilemma, Ruler’s Design

In the long list of candidates for each constituency, who should one vote for? Party loyalties and petty gains apart, 2024 Assembly elections have...

15.09.2024 3

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Mehmood Ur Rashid

Our politics, an obituary?!

Do elections to the J&K Assembly, 2024, mean anything to us? Sometime back there was a dominant feeling that people should now vote in numbers and...

08.09.2024 2

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Mehmood Ur Rashid