Ahmad Ayaz The much-awaited cabinet reshuffle in Jammu and Kashmir has taken place, with four legislators inducted into the Council of Ministers and Independent MLA Satish Sharma dropped. While the exercise may help the National Conference (NC) leadership manage competing aspirations within its ranks, the more important question is whether it will make any meaningful…

When rulers become absorbed in their own priorities while the people struggle with theirs, history does not necessarily repeat itself; it finds new ways of delivering the same warning. Peerzada Masarat Shah History is rarely a mere chronicle of the past. It is often a warning to those who govern in the present. Kashmir, whose…