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Pirates of the unruly sea

My first encounter with sea-pirates was at the age of seven. They seemed largely harmless. Patched-eye pirates, somehow, invoking pity. It was an Asterix comic-book, unintentionall...
Pawan Bali - July 1, 2011, 6:32 pm explore: India
Indo- Pak talks: dialogue is therapeutic

Talks are therapeutic. That's what any shrink will tell you. Especially, if it is between two warring parties, that have witnessed extreme highs and lows in a relationship. For In...
Pawan Bali - June 18, 2011, 5:45 pm explore: India
J&K: The lesser polls with larger gains

KP woman, a former militant and a model turned politician are Kashmir's new sarpanches The usually stone-pelted streets of Baramulla sprung a surprise a gentle summer afternoon. ...
Pawan Bali - May 11, 2011, 1:21 pm explore: India
Time for a political roadmap on Kashmir?

Every time the Prime Minister visits Jammu and Kashmir, some things are inevitable. For instance, traffic jams or no traffic at all; speculations, expectations and finally an anti-...
Pawan Bali - March 9, 2011, 3:44 pm explore: India
Kashmir: The dichotomy of grief

Young lives lost are always tragic. The grief of it is something which every home in Kashmir carefully guards against. Somehow, it quietly creeps in. The grief of an army bullet th...
Pawan Bali - February 7, 2011, 10:16 am explore: India
A Stoned T-20

It was an invitation for a T-20 of different sorts. "Make sure you are on time," they gently dropped a reminder. Precisely, on Friday, on the streets of Baramulla. The young boys ...
Pawan Bali - April 5, 2010, 1:11 pm explore: India
Enter the dragon, and it spits fire

Every time there is an argument on India's tricky neighbourhood, my vote goes out to China. It is our more formidable neighbour. But somehow we are so pulled into our Pakistani obs...
Pawan Bali - January 8, 2010, 8:41 pm explore: India
Terror- fighters, who?

It is the week of 26/11. A week of remembrances and of pledges re-drawn. As the nation stood solemnly, silently and promised not to forget, a lesser known, forgotten village of Ma...
Pawan Bali - November 27, 2009, 7:45 pm explore: India
Big brother India!

On a rather hot summer afternoon in Srinagar, a friend spoke about the sense of isolation an average Kashmiri youth feels outside the Valley. I retorted, "But then Kashmiris have t...
Pawan Bali - November 4, 2009, 6:28 pm explore: India
Kargil: Of a war and the mountains

When India was at its last war, I was a student, holidaying somewhere near the high altitude training school in Gulmarg, Kashmir. On the way back at the Srinagar airport, tri-colou...
Pawan Bali - July 13, 2009, 12:33 pm explore: India
From apolitical to be political

First, he refuses to share a dais with L K Advani. Then he says the BJP has no voice in their agitated rhetoric. "It is all apolitical, for god's sake. I am apolitical man". Apolit...
Pawan Bali - April 10, 2009, 5:50 pm explore: India
From bijli, sadak, paani, to a vote for peace?

It was the preferred phrase during the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. As voters' queues stretched on, men in phirans, enthusiastic women, and hopeful youngsters, talked a...
Pawan Bali - February 24, 2009, 3:10 pm explore: India
JK Polls: People on the edge

This picture (below) on its own, would perhaps confuse you. But the blur and the speed have a story. This is nine-year-old Samira Begum running for cover It was shot in Drahall ar...
Pawan Bali - November 20, 2008, 10:30 pm explore: India
Ground Zero Jammu: Terror and TV reporting

When the phone rings at 2 am, you know its not good news. Rather, for journalists it is always big news. On Wednesday night, this was a false alarm. A gun shot was heard somewhere ...
Pawan Bali - August 31, 2008, 7:29 am explore: India
The land of discontent

For travellers on the road, a drive through the Jawahar Tunnel on the National Highway IA could well describe the divide between Jammu and Kashmir- at least geographically. The pol...
Pawan Bali - August 13, 2008, 8:01 pm explore: India
... Of evolved and effective protests

Finally someone said it. " Journalists are also human beings". And it took the Dalai Lama to see it. In a crowded news-conference at his office in McLeodganj, the journal...
Pawan Bali - April 3, 2008, 8:37 pm explore: India
Of a few Taare Zameen Par

The first thing that strikes you about the village is the well-bred hens. Even before you have finished wondering at their fitness levels, the introductions pour in. Azmatabad vil...
Pawan Bali - January 17, 2008, 6:20 pm explore: India

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Pawan Bali

Pirates of the unruly sea

Indo- Pak talks: dialogue is therapeutic

J&K: The lesser polls with larger gains

Time for a political roadmap on Kashmir?

Kashmir: The dichotomy of grief

A Stoned T-20

Enter the dragon, and it spits fire

Terror- fighters, who?

Big brother India!

Kargil: Of a war and the mountains

From apolitical to be political

From bijli, sadak, paani, to a vote for peace?

JK Polls: People on the edge

Ground Zero Jammu: Terror and TV reporting

The land of discontent

... Of evolved and effective protests

Of a few Taare Zameen Par

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