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• Why were the Indo-Pak talks called off?

  Broadcast On September 30, 2018

  ... not forget the steadily worsening cycle of violence in Kashmir, for which Pakistan-supported terrorist groups are responsible. So was this the right moment to schedule a meeting of Foreign Ministers? Second, ...

• Why India today needs a George Fernandes

  Broadcast On June 14, 2020

  ... Whatever the wrongs of his political thinking – and I won’t deny there were a few – his was a voice that was rarely silent in the face of injustice. He spoke for the Sikhs in the 1980s and for the Kashmiris ...

• Why I respect Ram

  Broadcast On July 31, 2000

  ... throw into this simmering cauldron Ram’s outspoken opinions on the new TADA bill, on autonomy for Jammu & Kashmir and, finally, on the unsustainability of the case against Bal Thackeray and it started ...

• When the Valley cries

  Broadcast On September 8, 2003

  ... as I embark on another reckless discourse. This time my subject is the Kashmiri people and a weekend visit to Srinagar. I won’t claim I know, leave aside understand, but I feel I sensed something I should ...

• When the earth shakes but it’s only an earthquake

  Broadcast On April 30, 2001

  ...  “Damn” I said because more often than not the Express and I have similar views on Kashmir even if we only discover this in the confines of my loo. But when the newspaper fell out of my hands I realised ...

• WHEN INDIA, PAK CAME CLOSE TO INKING A PACT

  Broadcast On March 5, 2023

  ... the outcome was in keeping with the Indian constitution, the Jammu and Kashmir constitution and parliamentary resolutions. Sati had six meetings between March 2006 and March 2007 with Chief Justice Anand. ...

• WHAT THE FUSS OVER A FILM REVEALED ABOUT OUR SOCIETY

  Broadcast On December 11, 2022

  Now that a little time has passed and passions have, hopefully, cooled I want to reflect on the furore surrounding Nadav Lapid’s critique of The Kashmir Files. I believe it reveals some disturbing, even, ...

• What is the truth?

  Broadcast On February 26, 2008

  ... in Jammu and Kashmir and the North East”. Last December (20th) he said it again. He told the country’s chief ministers: “Left Wing Extremism is possibly the single biggest security ...

• What an idea, Sirjee!

  Broadcast On July 30, 2008

  ... Tamil, Telegu, Assamese or Kashmiri. In contrast, hindi purists seem to have faded away. There was a time when the Mulayam Singh Yadavs were sticklers for ‘klisht hindi’; now I can’t ...

• WE MUST CONDEMN COMMUNAL RHETORIC

  Broadcast On September 19, 2021

  ... abroad but seethe when the Organisation of Islamic Countries speaks about our treatment of muslims in Kashmir. But remember what Sardar Patel said: “It is for us who happen to be in a majority to think ...

• Us and them

  Broadcast On September 4, 2004

  ... on the Kashmir issue. Sometimes it seems to me the Government itself is not sure. They have agreed to talk – because clearly that was the right thing to do – but do they know what their aim and strategy ...

• Uncomfortable questions

  Broadcast On July 22, 2010

  ... Kashmir, Siachen and peace and security. The most it would accept was an agreement to do so in the future at “an appropriate time”, but refused to specify when that would be. The senior ...

• Two faces of Pakistan

  Broadcast On September 13, 2007

  ... progress on the Kashmir front. Benazir made a point of saying she would not reverse good work even if done by a dictator. Nawaz said he would set up a Kargil Commission and it would be free to question, ...

• To think I refused him a job

  Broadcast On October 9, 2000

  ... we evoke sentiment. Now read the following paragraph describing the play of sunlight on the trees of the Kashmir valley as summer settles over Srinagar. It’s from Vikram’s novel ‘The Srinagar Conspiracy’ ...

• The unusual tale of a Pakistani diplomat

  Broadcast On March 28, 2021

  ... no one else was willing to do so. He hints at this when he writes: “I … was not willing to pander to Modi at the cost of Kashmir”. He seems to confirm it when he adds he tried to convince his government ...

• The things we do but should not and the things we should but don’t

  Broadcast On June 7, 1999

  ... said or you couldn’t hear, well whose fault is that? Be more attentive next time. I’m afraid this attitude won’t do. The world has more to worry about than Kargil and Kashmir. In fact our problem ...

• The scary truth behind generic drugs in India

  Broadcast On July 14, 2019

  ... both then and now our Health Minister, to alert him to the problem. He was granted five minutes but Harsh Vardhan was more interested in the office television screen showing news from Kashmir than what ...

• The SC has not been fair to Harsh Mander

  Broadcast On March 15, 2020

  ... to take it up, he added: “This fight can also not be won in the Supreme Court because, as we have seen in the case of the NRC, Ayodhya and Kashmir, the Supreme Court has not been able to protect humanity, ...

• The sad truth about our politicians

  Broadcast On March 2, 2014

  ... just the behaviour in Parliament that was so embarrassing. What happened in the Jammu & Kashmir and UP Assemblies was equally damning. Together this suggests there is something rotten at the very core ...

• The sad truth

  Broadcast On December 2, 2012

  ... this issue Pakistan could retaliate by raising our own alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir. Touche! We’re no better than the Pakistanis next door. No doubt that’s the truth but it’s cold comfort ...