Dilip Padgaonkar

Dilip Padgaonkar, 72-year-old former consulting editor of the Times of India died in a hospital in Pune this morning. He had been unwell for some time.

She is no terrorist, she is the price Kashmir is paying for broken promises, for opportunist alliances, for the nature of the Indian State which believes that the force of a bullet or a lathi or a security camp can answer the political questions raised by history.

Afzal Guru's mercy petition: The decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs to ask President Pratibha Patil to reject Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's mercy petition is badly timed, says Kashmir interlocutor Dilip Padgaonkar.

The three-member panel of interlocutors on Kashmir, are in the midst of a four-day tour to the Valley, that's fast turning controversial. Today, the BJP targeted them by the accusing the team leader of internationalising the issue by reportedly saying Pakistan was key to a permanent Kashmir solution.Meanwhile the leader of the moderate faction of H...

The government on Wednesday named three interlocutors, including eminent journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, to hold talks with all shades of opinion, including the separatists, in Jammu and Kashmir as part of efforts to bring peace in the state.Besides Padgaonkar, Information Commissioner M M Ansari and noted academician Radha Kumar were the other two na...

Dilip Padgaonkar, 72-year-old former consulting editor of the Times of India died in a hospital in Pune this morning. He had been unwell for some time.

She is no terrorist, she is the price Kashmir is paying for broken promises, for opportunist alliances, for the nature of the Indian State which believes that the force of a bullet or a lathi or a security camp can answer the political questions raised by history.

Afzal Guru's mercy petition: The decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs to ask President Pratibha Patil to reject Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's mercy petition is badly timed, says Kashmir interlocutor Dilip Padgaonkar.

The three-member panel of interlocutors on Kashmir, are in the midst of a four-day tour to the Valley, that's fast turning controversial. Today, the BJP targeted them by the accusing the team leader of internationalising the issue by reportedly saying Pakistan was key to a permanent Kashmir solution.Meanwhile the leader of the moderate faction of H...

The government on Wednesday named three interlocutors, including eminent journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, to hold talks with all shades of opinion, including the separatists, in Jammu and Kashmir as part of efforts to bring peace in the state.Besides Padgaonkar, Information Commissioner M M Ansari and noted academician Radha Kumar were the other two na...