Greater Kashmir

India’s 80th Independence Day, to be celebrated on 15 August 2026, is not merely another anniversary on the national calendar. It is a historic milestone in the continuing journey of a civilisation that transformed the achievement of political freedom into the audacious project of building a constitutional democracy based on liberty, equality, justi...

Every August, India performs a ritual of remembering that risks becoming a ritual of forgetting. We hoist flags, recite a familiar pantheon of names, and retire the past into ceremony. But independence was not a single, luminous event delivered on the morning of 15 August 1947. It was a wager, made by exhausted and divided men and women, that a civi...

On 15 August 2026, India will mark its 80th Independence Day. The occasion should not be limited to remembering the end of British rule. It should also make us ask a basic question: what does freedom mean in the actual lives of Indian citizens? India became politically independent in 1947, and the Constitution came into force in 1950. Its Preamble p...

This year’s Amarnath Yatra is nearing end but the story remains. Come monsoon rains , the up and down traffic movement woes on NH 44, connecting Kashmir with the mainland, haunt us . This has become n yearly feature. Traffic issues surface despite remarkable improvements having been made to the road connectivity. As things stand today, we may have t...

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi unfurls the national flag on India’s 80th Independence Day on the ramparts of the fort that Shahjahan built he would be acutely aware of the very difficult external environment that confronts the nation. The Iran war continues causing continuing dislocation in international energy supplies. This has impacted India dir...