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LET’S TALK IN KASHMIR

PRINCE SALHEEN MANZOOR Bombs, guns, bullets and stones have been the norm in Kashmir for a long time now. With its snow capped mountains, hills...

Understanding Education in the age of Digital Divide

Waseem Ahmad Bhat “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela Derived from the Latin word “Educatum”, education aims...

Teaching with Technology

Dr Sajad Hussain Din e-learning can be used to restructure the education system in our country. The education system of our country is primeval and...

Youth Power!

Syed Mustafa Ahmad It is tough to be a teen in a world that seems only to criticise them. There are, however, teens who make...

My Kingdom Come, My Will Be Done

Talib Zaffer All praises to our mighty and wise King! His Majesty, our King, our Messiah, is going to decide whether the mango tree beneath...

The Inscrutable Gestures of Metaphysics

Rather Nasir All men by nature desire to know. So begins the first book of Aristotle's Metaphysics, written about two-and-a-half thousand years ago but still...

The first lesson of Feminism

Mehwish Shafi The idea of feminism is of women's liberation, equality, and rights on the ground of equality of the sexes. Feminism also entails women...

The place of poets in Islam

Rather Nasir Regarding poetry, the Islamic point of view is clear: like all other arts, literature is a transitory entertainment. The Quran says, “As for...

Negligence of Character Building: The Cause of Misery of Muslims

Ashraf Amin All nations of the world have witnessed both glory and downfall. But nothing rises or falls without a cause. Many scholars including Ibn...

Book Review: Kashmir’s resistance politics also shapes feminist struggles

Shah Munnes Muneer Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir Author: Inshah Malik Pages: 130 ISBN: 9783319953304 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2018) This book is a collection of...

The Joy that was Thej Kaad, glorious day of our old Kashmiri life

Mushtaq Hurra Villages are the factories which provide the country with cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits. Paddy cultivation is an important agricultural activity in our...

You Deserve A Break, Mother

Shafat Ali Dar On a usual lockdown day, after I was done basking under the glow of my smartphone, I decided that I should sleep....

How the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded

Raja Furqan Ahmed On October 16, 1962, US national security advisor Mcgeorge opened his daily briefing book at the White House. There were two memos...

BJP’s Failed Venture in Kashmir

Shazia Farooq On Aug 5, 2019, when the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was unilaterally revoked, New Delhi stated that this “constitutional transformation” was...

Books as Liberators in Lockdown

I've travelled the world twice over, met the famous saints and sinners, poets and artists, kings and queens, old stars and hopeful beginners. I've...

Government Schools Need a Big Hand

Showkat Ahmad Wani There are always comparisons between the performance of government schools and that of private schools. Most of the times, government schools are...

Byron’s Turkish Tales through the Prism of Literary/ Romantic Orientalism

Asmat Jan Literary Orientalism’ is simply defined either as ‘the depiction of the Orient/ Orientalism in western literary texts’ or ‘the study of the (mis)...

The Importance of Digital Literacy for Women

Syed Mustafa Ahmad With the advent of science and technology, the need for technological skills has assumed more importance. Being literate is not enough. Literacy...

MANU PAREKH

‘My criticism of Indian art is that we are still not rooted in our environment. There is tremendous possibility for doing so in our...

LALITHA LAJMI

‘I feel that for an artist, passion and focus should remain. If you change your art to suit someone else, then your art goes...

Covid-19: Know Thy Enemy and Divine The Sign

Shakil Ahmad Wani We are struggling to understand how the novel coronavirus tears through the human body. We know that it reaches for the lungs...

Indelible scars of Enforced Disappearances

Zahid Yousuf Mantoo There are reportedly more than 8,000 cases of enforced disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir. These disappearances began in the 1990s even before...

A very different Eid

Dr Reyaz Ahmad Ganaie This year at the end of the fasting month of Ramzan when the state sponsored Ruet-e-Hilal Committee in neighbouring Pakistan announced...

The Battle of Badr

JAVAID AHMAD WAGAY At Badr took place the first major encounter between the newly-born nation of Muslims and the unbelievers (Kaafireen), the Quraish of Makkah....

The United Nations Peacekeeping Force

Syed Mustafa Ahmad Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his defence of UN Peacekeeping forces said, “The first United Nations peacekeeping operation (Congo, 1960) was...

Respect for a corrupt doctor, disdain for an honest policeman

Kaiser Maqbool Perhaps our need for some consistency and predictability in our lives makes it tempting to generalise lessons we’ve managed to learn in certain...

The Fragility of Human Life and Society: Exposed

The modern world economy is characterised by ravaging of natural resources and over-dependence of economies on each other. It is, in the long run,...

Judiciary in Service of the Executive: The Case of the Supreme Court

Younis Ahad The maxim “ubi jus ibi remedium” means that where there is a right, there is a remedy. It is a foundational principle of...

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data as Shield against Coronavirus

Akhtar Nazir & Dr Abrar Ul Haq Wani The medical-scientific response to Covid-19 is analogous to that towards the previous epidemic of SARS but with...

Some rational arguments against the romantic defence of poplar trees

Nadeem Mubarik Citizens of Kashmir have been facing health problems due to the fluffy cotton seeds shed by poplar trees, also known as Russian poplars....

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