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With black bands & taped mouths, Ladakhis sent a message on October 18, 2025: we’ve been made voiceless, democracy denied. We’ll keep raising our voice for Statehood & 6th Schedule and never forget the brutal attack in Leh & arrests of activists including Sonam Wangchuk.

Common Concerns, Unbridgeable Gaps

21 Oct 2025

6 min read

The post-2019 reality should have led to a consensus in the three regions – Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh – over similar grievances and challenges, but they stand even more estranged.

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Common Concerns, Unbridgeable Gaps

India and Taliban: Meeting of Two Ideological Cousins

BJP is Fanning the Ladakh Flames into a Raging Inferno

The Himalayan Deluge: Lessons from Ancient Wisdom, Scotland & Climate Diplomacy

If jailed, the PM Can be Removed Too: Is the reality that simple?

On What Indices Do We Measure Operation Sindoor’s ‘Success’?

If the photographs didn’t belong to the Pahalgam attackers, what were the actions based on?

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The Grand Circus of Indian Delegations Abroad

A Chance to be the Real Vishwa-guru: Is it Wishful?

Farooq caught in a tornado stirred by his friend Dulat

The Big ‘Deal’: Trump, Zelensky and the godi-media

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Inside MAGA team, clash of supremacists

NC’s silence will serve BJP’s aim of discrediting it

Two Messages from Bangladesh for Modi, But He May Shut His Eyes to Both

Modi’s delusion of divinity is a deviously crafted project

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Record Voter Turnout in Baramulla-Kupwara Lok Sabha Polls

The act of voting is a defiance against the forced silence of Kashmiris

From Khaliq-made-MLAs to BJP opting out of the contest, it’s worthwhile to view Indian elections from Kashmir lens

Who Should Speak For Revanna’s Victims? A PM Would, But A Megalomaniac Won’t

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ECI’s Silence And Bias Are Devastating To Democracy

Is This The First Light Of The Dawn?

Politics of imitation is nothing but surrender

The Self-Proclaimed Divine Incarnate Consolidates Political And Religious Power

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Listen To The Anger And Pain Buried Beneath The Silence

The ‘differently’ abled writers in an ecosystem of stenographers

Stuck in a long dark tunnel in the Himalayas

Imagined referendums, invisible public, no elections as a democratic experiment

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The King and his courtiers

Ceasefire Now: Silence Is Complicity And Evil

The Merry Party Time Over Article 370

Secluded Ghettos, Hardened Positions, Animosity Obstacles In Return Of KPS

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Marginalia: Blood Thirsting Vindictive Zeal

Kashmir&#8217;s Chaotic Flavours Of Khichdi

In Times of Dystopian Reality: Big Brother is Watching

Hijab Or No Hijab: The Discourse Either Way Endorses A Stereo-type

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For Love Of A Bloody War

Beyond Might And Lies, Can The &#8216;real Modi&#8217; Be Recognized?

Heroic Voices Filling The Darkness Of Silence And Consent

Outrage Is Natural But Do We Want To Learn Lessons From Pulwama?

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The Songs They Want To Snatch From Our Lips

BULANDSHAHR&#8217;S MESSAGE FROM THE BARREL OF THE GUN

Every Autocrat Loves A Good Pandemic

A Memory Bank Of Torment That Kashmir Invests Itself In

Kashmir’s Chaotic Flavours Of Khichdi

Beyond Might And Lies, Can The ‘real Modi’ Be Recognized?

BULANDSHAHR’S MESSAGE FROM THE BARREL OF THE GUN