The fear factor may be driving Biharis out of Kashmir at present, but the migrants, mostly comprising Dalits and OBCs, earn more money, respect there compared to other states across the country Ajaz Ashraf I am a Harry, a term coined decades ago by the snooty set to condescendingly identify the middle class, English-speaking Biharis in Delhi. We Harrys know from our experience that economic mobility is the principal driver of migration, more so as Bihar is India’s poorest State by Gross State Domestic Product per capita. Yet we were…
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Post India Pakistan cricket match, Kashmiri Students allegedly attacked at Punjab College
Punjab police officials arrived at the college campus soon after and said that situation at Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology was brought under control. Several Kashmiri students at an engineering college in Punjab’s Sangrur alleged that they were assaulted late last night moments after India lost its opening T20 World Cup match against Pakistan. Punjab police officials arrived at the college campus soon after and said that situation at Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology was brought under control. “We were watching the match here. UP waale…
Read MoreApple farms devastated as early snow destroyed fruits & cracked trees
Apple growers say the damages are more profound in the hilly Shopian district where snowfall has been liberal and damages extensive. Red, green, and yellow apples, some ripe and some unripe lay scattered over acres of land as Aamir Hussain paced towards his orchard on a snowy morning in south Kashmir. Minutes later as he stood there and looked around, he knelt down shaking his head in disbelief. It took him a while to process what heavy and unseasonal snow had done to trees and crops in his orchard. He…
Read MorePretending all is Normal in J&K Like “Suicide”: Kashmiri Pandit’s Group
The undertaking says police will not be held responsible for the security of Pandits. J&K Police deny that people are under pressure to sign it. Kashmiri Pandits living in the Valley, already rattled by the spate of civilian killings over the past month, are now angry and upset over an “undertaking” sent by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. According to Sanjay Tickoo, who heads the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, the police initially asked the families to house security personnel guarding them in their homes, and when the families refused, sent…
Read MoreBipin Rawat – Chief of Defence Staff General warns of further curbs in Kashmir
Chief of Defence Staff points to rise in militant attacks, blames Pakistan The Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat has said restrictions imposed following the scrapping of Article 370 may return to the Kashmir Valley at the cost of freedom of movement because of terror strikes. He also accused Pakistan of carrying out a proxy war to “create fear-mongering” because “a semblance of peace and tranquillity was happening” in Jammu and Kashmir. “Whenever there is peace and tranquillity in Jammu and Kashmir, our western adversary creates a situation where…
Read MoreMigrant workers who have become integral part of Kashmir’s economy
Over the past two decades, migrant labourers from India’s heartland have become an integral part of Kashmir’s economy. In the past two weeks, 11 civilians, including migrant labour and non-Muslim Kashmiris, have been killed. By Deeptiman Tiwary & Naveed Iqbal With a forlorn look on his face, Sajjad Wani is puffing cigarette after cigarette. The owner of a furniture-making unit in Pulwama’s Litter in South Kashmir has a series of orders pending with him, but no workers to complete them. With logs of raw wood lying beside a row of…
Read MoreCricket is never just a game between India and Pakistan
It’s one of the greatest rivalries in sports when war off the field allows it — a contest of national identities that will be renewed this Sunday in a World Cup match. By Mujib Mashal The event will be watched by hundreds of millions around the world, on televisions in remote villages, jumbo screens in crowded cities, phones in migrant labor tenements and flickering monitors in the living rooms of a diaspora spread across the world’s time zones. Face-offs on the cricket field between India and Pakistan, like the expected…
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