For over three decades, the breathtaking vistas and spiritual depth of the Kashmir Valley were systematically scarred by the toxic machinations of a failing state located to our west. Pakistan, a nation born out of a fractured identity and sustained by a pathological obsession with India, has relentlessly pursued a cowardly policy of bleeding India through a thousand cuts. This desperate neighbour, perpetually on the brink of fiscal and moral bankruptcy, found its only releva

On the afternoon of 14 February 2019, when most of the world was celebrating love and companionship, the quiet winter roads of south Kashmir witnessed one of the darkest days in India’s contemporary history. Along the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway near Lethpora, Pulwama, a convoy of Central Reserve Police Force personnel moved slowly through the snow-covered landscape. It was a routine movement something that had happened thousands of times before. A suicide bomber rammed a

Jammu and Kashmir have remained one of the most sensitive and strategically important regions of India since Independence. The region has been at the centre of prolonged cross-border tensions, primarily between India and Pakistan, owing to historical disputes, territorial claims and geopolitical interests. Despite several bilateral agreements and confidence-building measures, cross-border tensions continue to manifest in the form of ceasefire violations, infiltration attempts