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Year after Abrogation of Article 370 what the State has Achieved!

July 29, 2020 Bashir Assad Article

It is one year since the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution which conferred special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir within the Union of India. Seemingly the annulling of the Article 370 is a fate accompli ....

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Article , governance , LoC , Article 370 , Geelani , Pakistani handlers , International players , new terrorist outfits

Net War in India: in the Context of Current Turbulence

June 02, 2020 Brig (Dr) Ashok Pathak (Retd.) Article

The Current Turbulence Relevant to India The most visible events that impact the collective consciousness of Indian population today are connected with Sino Indian confrontation in the East, Pakistan sponsored proxy war post abrogation of....

National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , Article 370 , Information war , migrant workers , Net War , Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA)

Truth vs. Reality: Unshackling the Burdens of Intrigue in Kashmir

May 30, 2020 Col (Dr) DPK Pillay Article

Truthful journalism is the bulwark that makes democracies work by fulfilling the people’s right to information. This statement cannot be faulted, but there is a less comfortable truth that operates in tandem here, especially when it comes to media ....

Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , China , Pakistan

Tags : Article , Pakistan , China , Kashmir , Article 370 , Article 35 A , Pandits , Great Game

Rewriting the New Narrative of Jammu and Kashmir

March 23, 2020 Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.) Article

Introduction Disjunction between the law and state can lead to systemic decay that breed corruption, instability, violence and erosion of institutions of governance. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is victim of the disjunction that allowed state ....

Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Article , Radicalisation , Proxy War , Article 370 , 35 A , Pakistan strategy , Over Ground Workers , Stone pelters , Cross border terrorism , Challenges , Economic impact

All Quiet in Kashmir?

January 09, 2020 Bashir Assad Commentary

Kashmir is relatively calm since the last couple of months. No street protests, no encounters between the militants and the security forces. Last encounter was reported on November 26 between the militants and the forces in Pulwama district of South ....

Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies

Tags : Commentary , Pakistan , FATF , infiltration , ISI , Article 370 , Intelligence , Communications

As the 2019 Ends on a Mixed Note, the Tasks for 2020 are Clear

December 27, 2019 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The year 2019 will go down as one of the most seminal years for India. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), won a spectacular victory in the Lok Sabha elections with the BJP winning a record 303 seats on its ....

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Commentary , economy , Ram Mandir , elections , Article 370 , NRC , Balakot strike , Triple Talaq , CAA , Strategic Communication

Kashmir: The Climb Ahead

November 14, 2019 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee, Editor, VIF Article

“Don’t hit at all if it is honourably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft”, - Theodore Roosevelt A State of Complexities At the time of India’s independence, the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was, by the ver....

Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Article , Kashmir , Article 370 , Mainstreaming challenges in Kashmir , Kashmir imperatives

Constitutional Amendment - Responses from West Asia

August 28, 2019 Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Commentary

Responses of individual West Asian States on India’s decision to annul to revoke Article 370 and Article 35A has been multi-faceted and mostly focused on controlling the situation rather than any direct criticism for change in India’s policy. Sau....

International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia

Tags : Commentary , Article 370 , India’s constitutional amendment , West Asia on Kashmir

Article 370: Abrogation for Progress and Development of Jammu & Kashmir

August 19, 2019 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The divesting of Art 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution from within its own provisions and by way of Presidential decrees was a stroke of legal genius by PM Modi’s government – these Articles were seen by the rest of India as anachronistic an....

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Article , Jammu & Kashmir , Article 35A , Article 370 , Next step in Kashmir , Integrated development in Kashmir

Modi did what Nehru wanted to, but couldn’t, on Article 370

August 07, 2019 S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

When Home Minister Amit Shah declared on August 6 that Article 370 has been scrapped and Kashmir fully integrated with the rest of India, whether or not he was aware, he said almost exactly what Jawaharlal Nehru told the Lok Sabha 56 years ago, on De....

Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Article , Lok Sabha , Article 370 , Amit Shah , Jawaharlal Nehru , RSS , Congress Kashmir abrogation