LISTEN | Amit Baruah in conversation with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Mirwaiz Umar Farooq says this election was a vote against the BJP and the policies of Narendra Modi’s government. | Video Credit: Interview by Amit Baruah; Editing by Samson Ronald K.; Supervising producer: Jinoy Jose P. Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the religious head […]
Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the religious head of Kashmiri Muslims, talks to Amit Baruah in this episode of the Frontline Conversations podcast at his home in Nigeen, Srinagar. After years of house arrest, he shares his views on Kashmir’s current situation and its future. The Mirwaiz discusses the recent elections in Kashmir, calling […]
The prolific author Sudeep Chakravarti’s 10th book, Fallen City, is about Delhi, where two children, Geeta and Sanjay, were brutally murdered in 1978. He places the crime in a socio-political context. Chakravarti’s own life is as interesting as his work and he has just emerged after three years in Dhaka, where he set up a […]
Narendra Modi is not the kind of figure who will quietly sail into the sunset. On September 17, he turned 74, giving him one more year before the informal retirement age he himself set for members of the BJP. During the course of the Lok Sabha election earlier this year, it was passionately reiterated that […]
