To know what’s really happening, we should just follow the data.... terrorist activity steadily increasing from 1988, peaking in 2001 and steadily decreasing every year since then. The current year, 2013, could be the year when the graph turns again: it’s only August and there are over four months still to go, and the body count is already at 103, against 117 in 2012. There is a good chance, therefore, that we will see the first increase in fatalities due to Pakistan-promoted terrorism in Kashmir this year since 2001. Read More

Jyothi Shankaran

    Jyothi’s last role was as Senior Editor with the business news channel Bloomberg TV India. He also worked as News Editor at business-standard.com, the online version of the business newspaper Business Standard. Jyothi is a chemical engineer from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar.