Aarti Tikoo·Aug 24, 2021Ban Hurriyat, Kashmir’s TalibanIn 1988–89, after the US-backed Islamist mujahideen drove out the Soviet Union from Afghanistan, some of their mercenaries and arms were…A response icon1A response icon1
Aarti Tikoo·Jul 24, 2020Bollywood’s Chance To Redeem Itself in KashmirOne of the biggest highlights of my childhood in Kashmir was that one day our teacher at Army school in Anantnag announced that the…A response icon8A response icon8
Aarti Tikoo·Apr 7, 2020Bollywood’s ‘Shikara’ Takes Its Subjects For a RideI didn’t have time to watch ‘Shikara – The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits’, the Vidhu Vinod Chopra movie, when it was released in…A response icon2A response icon2
Aarti Tikoo·Mar 2, 2020India’s citizenship law is recognition of religious persecutionFebruary 19, 2020A response icon2A response icon2
Aarti Tikoo·Jan 19, 2020Truth of Kashmiri Hindu ExodusBeware young people! Today, on January 19, the 30th anniversary of Kashmiri Pandit exodus day, anyone telling you that militancy in…
Aarti Tikoo·Nov 8, 2019Ms. Singh Goes to WashingtonOn October 22, as I walked out of Room 2172 in Rayburn House Office Building, I felt like the country bumpkin character Jefferson Smith…
Aarti Tikoo·Oct 14, 2019Debunking Myths of Article 370 & KashmirThe lecture ‘Kashmir-The State & The Status, Manthan Samvaad 2019’ by Srinath Raghavan on Article 370 is not only intellectually dishonest…A response icon3A response icon3
Aarti Tikoo·Mar 4, 2019Thirty Years LaterApart from the memories, where do I go to, today? What do I visit? I thought of going home but there is none. So I decided to go to the…A response icon1A response icon1
Aarti Tikoo·Dec 12, 2018To Dare Dragon, Tiger Must First Win On His Home TurfIn her popular autobiographical book ‘Wild Swans’ that spans three generations of China, Jung Chang while describing the Mao cult during…