State of the State

On August 6, 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir. A lockdown followed. Internet connection was cut off.

- Chinki Sinha

Again I've returned to this country

where a minaret has been entombed. 

Someone soaks the wicks of clay lamps

in mustard oil, each night climbs its steps

to read messages scratched on planets.

His fingerprints cancel bank stamps

in that archive for letters with doomed

addresses, each house buried or empty.

-from The Country Without a Post Office Agha Shahid Ali

"Where is the time? We are in the middle of the Ayodhya case hearing," the CJI said on Monday. At the last hearing, he had raised hopes that at least the issue of alleged detention of minors in J&K would be addressed. However, he said that though the high court legal aid had submitted a report to the court he did not have the time to deal with it.

-from The Economic Times, September 30, 2019