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High time to stop patronising beggars

The lockdown may have put a break on common man’s movement, but there seems to be no break on the movement of beggars in...

Do you cough out blood? Ignorance may cost you your life

In our Indian subcontinent, innumerable persons of all age groups do suffer from cough at various stages of their lives. Sometimes the frequency of...

An important, but forgotten, Kashmiri text: Tuhfa Ashrafiah

Dr Sayid Ruqayya, HOD Persian Department, University of Kashmir, translated the Persian book, Tuhfa Ashrafiah, authored by Hafiz Mohammad Hasan bin Hafiz Wali-ul-lah, into...

A political lifeline for Netanyahu

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not new and dates back to 1948 when the state of Israel was established on Arab land. The conflict has...

Quran: A Dialogic, Polyphonic Text

All attempts at understanding the Quran as a whole would be successful only if its coherence is taken care of, which seeks to bring...

Old Wine in New Bottle: Yet another novel on Kashmir

The Plague Upon Us breaks new ground in creative writing about Kashmir and comes up with fresh insight into the trauma and chaos caused...

Soldier of Knowledge: Padma Shri Prof K L Chopra

Heart of a lion, mind of a champion, a towering personality in academia, Padma Shri Prof K L Chopra is no more. Never afraid...

Prayer as ‘Attention’ and not ‘Petition’

What is Prayer? How can Prayer transform us into purified beings? Allow me to share a few reflections from Iris Murdoch’s “The Sovereignty of...

Fallacies in Theories of Evolution of Religion

Theories of evolution of the phenomenon called religion are still being debated in various corners of the globe. A considerable number of men (E.B....

Middle East Again

The latest flare-up between Israel and Hamas has once again brought focus of the world on one of the longest outstanding feuds in the...

A passage to enlightenment: Mawlana Mawdudi’s Tafheem-ul-Quran

The Quran is the foundation and mainstay of Islamic faith, life and culture. Islam and the Muslim Ummah are unique in so far as...

New Old Flashpoint in Israel-Palestine Conflict

Once again the Israel-Palestine conflict has gained worldwide attention. Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza strip saw the most intense aerial exchanges between...

SARS-CoV-2 mutant outbreaks and nature’s balancing mechanisms

Insights from the molecular world of virus and host interactions With the emergence of new lineages of SARS-CoV-2, every moment seems terrifying. The rapid surge...

My lockdown diary I couldn’t hold on to

(When phase 1 of the COVID-19 lockdown was announced on the evening of March 24, 2020, I decided to write my daily experiences for...

Why Israel is Unacceptable to the Muslim World

The title of this article may be unacceptable to many readers across the world but that is what the ground reality is as far...

Book Review: The Nine Lives of Pakistan

If there is one word that sustains the description of Pakistan throughout its political existence, it is FEUDAL. Read any book of note on...

In Praise of Book Reading

“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” E.P. Whipple Knowledge is acquired and enhanced through reading. Also, science has proved that reading has...

Religious intolerance fatal for secular India

No other country in this whole world presents such a vivid picture of unity in diversity as our mother India. Sharing a vast and...

Confession of a father

Dear son, I’m saying this as you lie asleep, your little paw curled under your cheek and your jet-black curls sticking wet on your forehead,...

In search of real happiness

When I was little, the biggest source of joy for me was having a grand collection of accessories, sneakers and clothes. Then it changed...

Book Review: Pakistan’s bungling balderdash on Kashmir

Over the last one week I went through a couple of books, cover to cover. Both are superbly written. One is on Pakistan as...

Covid-19 in India: We are on our own

The current pool of politicians are scavengers. The only job they know is politics, and they depend on it for their own livelihood. The first...

The aim of travelling

(Inspired from the essay of Pico Iyer, ‘Why do we travel’) "We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves" (Pico...

Happy Mother’s Day, Amu

Dear Amu, First of all, I can’t possibly do you justice in a letter, but letter writing for me is a cathartic process. I can...

Impact of Human Activities on the Natural Environment

Humans are the only living beings on planet earth who are responsible for the destruction of its environment. Humans pollute air, water, soil, light,...

My Idea of a Good Teacher

The opening statement of ‘Education and National Development Report’ says, “The destiny of India is being shaped in her classrooms”. This one sentence clearly...

The ‘Long Covid’

On 11th March 2020 the WHO declared COVID-19 outbreak as a global pandemic and 1 year on we are still haunted by the mysteries...

The numerous medicinal values of Mulberry

Among various broad-leaved tree species in Kashmir valley, there are several which have vital medicinal values. These tree species flourish under high temperatures i.e.,...

Fighting the Invisible Enemy: MoD’s Response to Covid-19 Surge

The surge of Covid-19 cases during the last 2-3 weeks has resulted in a once-in-a-century crisis. Sensing the emergency of the situation, the whole...

Beware of the snare, lest you suffer as I do

Every time I thought of writing about how porn has wreaked havoc on every aspect of my life, a myriad of voices would come...

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