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Nationalism Redefined

In India nationalism is being described not as loyalty to the nation state, as in the European example, but as devotion to a particular...

National Education Policy 2020: Text and Context

Shahzad Hussain The National Education Policy (henceforth NEP) 2020 is a welcome step in equipping the Indian education system for the twenty-first century. Looking only...

An impractical, imposed education policy

Muheeb Ahad The education system has been a space of contestation among scholars and academicians throughout the country. Since India achieved independence, a multitude of...

Sleep well to stay healthy

Gowhar Rashid When we are under the weather or knackered, the instructive and advisable words are always, “Go to bed”. Indeed, sleep is the best...

Sexual harassment of women at the workplace

Nadeem Khaliq Unsolicited and unwanted acts of a sexual nature, also known as “eve-teasing”, are not a new phenomenon in India. Sexual harassment is rooted...

A Woman’s Place: Beneath the Man in Kashmiri Society

Laws prohibiting gender biases cannot make a difference unless they are alien to the collective consciousness of society. What needs to be fixed is...

Gossip: The Thief of Reputation

‘O you who have believed, avoid assumptions. And do not spy or backbite each other.’ The Holy Qur’an Bisma Shafi Bhat The above mentioned ‘ayah’ refers to...

Night out in the mountains

Arfat Wani Anxiety, stress and depression are some of the most common causes of insomnia. We didn't have insomnia but we did have a phobia...

Reclaiming of Hagia Sophia is rejection of the west’s neo-colonialism

Mohmad Maqbool Waggy Hagia Sophia (Aaya Sofia in Turkish) is located in Istanbul's heart and means ‘divine wisdom’. It was initially established as an Eastern...

Aherbal: Crown Jewel of Kulgam

Tawseef Ahmad Mir Kashmir is undoubtedly dotted with numerous picturesque places across its length and breadth. From vast green pastures and magnificent snow-capped mountain ranges...

Those 14 days of August that will haunt me forever

Waleed Bin Owais I was driving and heading towards my home located in the suburbs of Srinagar, in the month of July when the sun...

Viral Hepatitis is preventable

Dr Subhash Gupta Even though preventable, viral hepatitis is still the second major infectious disease in the world after TB. Worldwide, 9 out of 10...

Books not Bullets

Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' Jammu & Kashmir has witnessed more than three decades of proxy war, violence and suffered irreparable damage in all domains of human...

PARADISE LOST

Shafi Rather Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state during the British East India Company rule as well as the British Raj in India from...

Decline of the Indian Leadership

Hilal Lone Political ideology of the leadership of a country depends upon the aspirations of the people and their religious, cultural, economic and regional background....

Days before Eid

We might be spending hefty amounts in decorating and building mosques, sacrificing costly animals on Eid; we visit graveyards on Eid and remember our...

God is one but also not ‘one’

Khubaib Mujtaba In a paradox, the literal meaning is never the true meaning. Understanding only the surface meaning of a paradox is to misunderstand the...

The Sacrifice of All Doubts

Abid Hussain Rather The Islamic calendar starts with the month of Muharram and ends with the month of Dhu al-Hijjah. When we look at these...

The Zenith of Faith

WAKEEL AHMAD MIR Dark clouds of Covid-19 loom over this year’s Eid al-Adha, one of the most important festivals of Muslims. Eid is an event...

To conserve forests and plant trees is to do Ibadat

BASIT HASSAN Forests have a significance not only for the environment but as the 14th-century Sufi saint and poet Sheikh Noor-ud-Din said, “Ann poshi teli...

Covid-afflicted economy needs ‘Unbalanced Growth’

Binish Qadri The balanced-growth model assumes all economic variables growing at a similar rate. On the other hand, the unbalanced-growth model assumes all economic variables...

Virtual Passing-Out Parade for JK Police trainees

Mohammad Shoaib The situation is grim due to Covid-19 but that is no reason to delay the passing out of trainees at the Sher-e-Kashmir Police...

Teaching right values more important than teaching syllabus

Aijaz Ahmad Dar Walking just a half kilometre from my locality, one can count or locate at least ten schools. Walking a further 100 or...

Why Kashmiris Think Coronavirus is a Hoax

The backlash is coming not from 'extremists' but nationalists who were made to believe all Hindus are their enemies Ubaid Bukhari Not everything can be negative...

Faculty of Forestry sets example to learn from

JAUHAR RAFEEQ The arrival of the novel coronavirus in India shut down educational institutes across the country. On March 16, we at Sher-i-Kashmir University of...

A success story from Kulgam in the field of integrated farming

Dr Tasneem Mubarak There is no denying the fact that farmers in many parts of the country are in distress. The farming sector produces very...

Remembering Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Rayees Ahmad Kumar "Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realising that everyone has a different question...

When thoughts of suicide seize the mind -I

Ayaan Zia It is estimated that about 15 percent of the adult population will experience depression at some point in their life. The World Health...

When thoughts of suicide seize the mind -II

Mohmad Maqbool Waggy Hamlet is contemplating suicide. Not in grief or mystification, but with astounding lucidity and logic. He has lost his father and is...

Altaf Bukhari’s dangerous populist pharmacy

Modern drugs must be handled by professionals specifically trained for the purpose and not by me-too Medical Assistants Imtiyaz Ahmad Mr Altaf Bukhari, a businessman turned...

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