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From whataboutery to contradictions, everything wrong with the BCI press release

Unquestionably, the Mufti-Modi Pact to create the PDP-BJP coalition government on 1 March 2015 was a Coalition of Immense Hope. Unfortunately, in three years, it had transgressed into a "Coalition of Fear."

The downfall of the grotesquely conjoined PDP-BJP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir doesn’t appear to have led to the mass turmoil that was witnessed on termination of Farooq Abdullah’s government in 1984 and 1990, or even Ghulam Nabi Azad’s government in 2008.

All the three times, governors took over smoothly from the civil regimes but invariably landed in a whirlpool. It took months or years to restore order.

It took my father’s death and even then, two years of his being gone for things from the distant past to come and hit me in the face and show me a side of myself I did not know existed.

Sudheendra Kulkarni remembers LK Advani's words to the media in the aftermath of the Emergency, and reminds us of their relevance to the current political climate as well.

Vinay Kaura assesses the state of India-Nepal relations, and China's attempts to woo Nepal PM Oli.

The NSG is not going to storm across J&K, inflicting its ‘muscle’ on all and sundry.

Some disorder and confusion is natural in the wake of the fall of a State Government, but one of the most encouraging aspects of the present episode in J&K has been the sense of calm and of a controlled transition that has been communicated by the Governor, N N Vohra.

“June 14 was a horrific day for me and my family,” writes Tamjeed Shujaat Bukhari, the son of senior Kashmiri journalist Shujaat Bukhari, who was shot dead in a brutal attack a week ago.

Tamjeed has penned a heartfelt note in Rising Kashmir, the newspaper his late father was the editor of, recalling the horrific personal tragedy that took place on 14 June.

Were Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma right or wrong for posting a video to call out a litterbug? Listen to today’s discussion on Heads Up — The Quint’s evening podcast.