Articles

K File:The Conspiracy of Silence By Bashir Assad (New Delhi, Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019. 237pp)

Bashir Assad’s book comes at an appropriate time, as it provides an insider and subaltern view of Kashmir. He has firsthand experience of the developments in Kashmir for the past 30 years. In his own words, he has lived the ideology of Maududi Isl....

April 20, 2020 Kashmir , Book Reviews , Bashir Assad , Kashmiri Muslims , Maududi Islam , Jamat-e-Islami , Kashmiris , Ahl-e-Hadis , Islamisation , Nizam-e-Mustafa

Kashmir: Beyond Article 370. By Bashir Assad. New Delhi, Pentagon Press, 2020. 177 pp. Rs. 595/-

Professor K Warikoo

Bashir Assad, the Kashmiri writer has come out with yet another interesting and insightful study of Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. To quote Bashir, he has brought out the “bitter truth following his inner voice” underscoring the....

March 18, 2020 Kashmir , Article 370 , Book Reviews , Kashmir: Beyond Article 370 , Bashir Assad , Kashmiri Muslims

Five ‘T’s of China-India ties

Dr. Pankaj Jha Commentary

Following the two informal summits between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan (2018) and Chennai (2019) the important question that is being asked within the academic circles in China is what could be the possible template....

December 16, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , China , Commentary , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Kashmir , Terrorism , Belt and Road , Informal Summit , RCEP , trade imbalance , Aksai Chin , SR talks

Kashmir: The Climb Ahead

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....

November 14, 2019 Jammu & Kashmir , Governance and Political Studies , Article , Kashmir , Article 370 , Mainstreaming challenges in Kashmir , Kashmir imperatives

Kashmir - A New Chapter Begins

… the recent decisions of abrogation of Article 370 along with Article 35A, and bifurcation of the State … are indeed historic and will help the State and its people, chart out for itself/themselves a new future of peace, progress and integratio....

August 09, 2019 modi , Kashmir , Article 35A , Article 370 , Chapter Begins

A Social and Psychological Approach to Conflict Management in Jammu and Kashmir

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM

People of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) region practiced Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism at the time when Islam entered the Kashmir Valley. One aspect that remained constant in Kashmir was that in spite of the arrival of foreign Sufi Saints such ....

April 17, 2018 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Counter-terrorism , Kashmir , technology

कश्मीर – सामने आया नया मौका

C D Sahay, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने एक बड़ा कदम उठाते हुए 23 अक्टूबर, 2017 को ऐलान किया कि भारत सरकार न�....

December 05, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , कश्मीर राजनीतिक प्रक्रिया , केंद्र सरकार प्रतिनिधि , POK

जम्मू कश्मीर: विशेष प्रतिनिधि के लिए आसान नहीं होगी राह

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

खुफिया ब्यूरो के पूर्व निदेशक श्री दिनेश्वर शर्मा को सरकार ने कश्मीर के लोगों की “जायज इच्छाओं....

November 24, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Rajnath Singh , Kashmir , POK , जम्मू कश्मीर , Jammu , Pakistn , Indian Army

Key to Conflict Management in Kashmir is People, Politics and Perception

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM

Violence is a type of backwardness and it is enormously powerful tool to coerce the communally fractured population to revolt against the state. But sustaining the uprising would need psychological mentoring and shaping of the perception of the peopl....

November 06, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , Pakistan strategies , hybrid war , Kashmiri culture , 360

अनुच्छेद 35ए पर कड़वाहट भरी रस्साकशी

Rajesh Singh

पिछले कुछ महीनों और वर्षों में जम्मू-कश्मीर में की कहानी कश्मीर घाटी में नियमित अशांति, सीमा पा�....

September 15, 2017 Governance and Political Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , जम्मू-कश्मीर राज्य , संविधान अनुच्छेद 35ए , Article 35A , J&K