Economic growth has been the key gauge of prosperity in all economies since the industrial revolution. Every year nations around the world prepare national accounts from which the growth of their economies is measured and compared to the rest of the world. Organisations such as the IMF and World Bank produce annual reports and development indicators looking at the effects of economic growth which is the increase in the production of goods and services from the previous year. Today the world...

Omar Abdullah took oath as Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister on 5th of January 2009. In India he was declared as youngest chief minister. And people had expected lot from him at national as well as domestic level, but a detailed look at his three-year term makes one realize that there is almost nothing to cheer about.

Omar Abdullah will complete his three years in office on 5th of January 2012. On his installation as youngest chief minister, some of the observers were of the opinion that...

For a while chairman of moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has trodden into enemies area. On Friday, he talked about the issues that have so far remained a taboo for advocates of azadi and Islam. Making a huge departure from the past, Mirwaiz, for the first time, talked about Aam issues of Aam Aadmi.

“While struggling for the judicious resolution of Jammu and Kashmir issue, we cannot remain aloof to the hardships and privations of the common people caused due...

Politics and politicians in Kashmir thrive on deaths, and more so if the dead person is a hapless labourer, shopkeeper or a daily wage-earner. Like vultures, politicians of all hues look for deaths.

To their convenience, they have split people into ‘our’ and ‘their’ folds. It is the circumstantial evidence that defines and determines the political responses to the deaths. It appears that the political class in Kashmir has neither moral qualm nor heart to look at a death.

The death...