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Editorial: Cowardly Killings In Pahalgam – Justice Must Prevail

Pahalgam, renowned for its breathtaking beauty, was marred by a senseless act of violence. Innocent lives were brutally cut short in a cowardly attack,...

Character Development

Character, as they say, is everything. Like friendship, it takes ages to develop character but it can break or get besmirched in a moment....

Importance of Knowledge

That knowledge is an intrinsic good and has inherent merits is to state the obvious. It is knowledge and its quest thereof that has...

Ravages of Winter

As winter is about to descend and fall in Kashmir, the whole valley will assume a new form and shape in all its dimensions...

The Power of Dua

Dua (loosely translated as prayer) is one of the most potent and powerful concepts. As imperfect, weak and flawed human beings , there is...

Winter and Electricity

As winter approaches and sets in, the usual crisis that Kashmir is familiar with, that of power, will hit Kashmir. If the past is...

Money: the Root of Evil?

Money, the cliché goes, is the root of all evil. Is there merit to it? Is money indeed the root of evil? Yes and...

Treat Everyone Fairly

In the treatment of people, there is a fundamental paradox and it lies in the fact that while we, as individuals, in any given...

Support Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old Swedish climate change activist, has created ripples with her activism, something that has brought her both support and...

On Experience

Generally speaking, and by and large, experience is everything. But, in Kashmir, we tend to postpone experience and prefer the speculative over it. This...

Sin and the City

In cities, especially large and big ones, which accord the veil of anonymity to people, and where different people of different persuasions reside people,...

On Kindness

Kindness is an attribute of human nature, to state the obvious. But, often times, given the competitive nature of society and the ruthlessness it...

Grounded Selves

Pride and arrogance, by humans, are one of the grotesque aspects of the human nature. Yes, there are attributes of humans and part of...

On Goodness

The dictionary defines goodness as the state or quality of being good(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goodness). While the intensity and copiousness of what it means to be good...

Now, Control Damage

Normal life remained disrupted for the second consecutive day on Wednesday as authorities failed to clear roads and interior lanes, especially in Srinagar. Despite...

Govt’s Daily Bread

Since the police and other wings of the administration, possibly even municipal functionaries, have long found a goldmine in roadside and pavement vendors, there...

Pick-and-Choose

Neglected for over three decades, the problem of proliferating stray dogs has surpassed crisis proportions many times over, and continues to exist partly out...

Housing Policy Needed

On Monday, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah finally laid the foundation stone of Srinagar city’s much-talked about first vertical housing project. Undertaken by the Srinagar...

Notional Interest

Since the Army and other forces had been covering themselves with glory in Kashmir after 1990, it was necessary for you-know-who to cook up...

Justice and Kunan-Poshpora

Twenty-three years on, Kunan Poshpora survivors continue to strive for justice. Even as redress seems to be a distant dream, the survivors are determined...

Apprise the Masses

A Home Ministry statement issued last week said that New Delhi had been in touch with Kashmir leaders, and went on to add that...

NC govt’s dichotomous policies

Before and after coming into power, Omar Abdullah had quite often advocated the need for setting up of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in...

Regulate Stone-Crushers

In brazen violation of rules governing environmental protection in Jammu and Kashmir, over 600 stone crushing units in the State are breaching measures mandatory...

Tuition Twists

That private coaching has become such a rage in Kashmir - a phenomenon unheard of in advanced societies- is a direct reflection of the...

Pandits’ Return

Migrant Pandits have rightly rejected the government’s idea of outsourcing their rehabilitation in the Valley to a society. But several organizations claiming to speak...

No longer a constructive endeavour

The noble and constructive endeavour of politics, an effective tool to serve humanity and uplift the society, has come to connote a criminal demonstration...

Killer Roads

According to official averages, three persons are killed and twenty-five injured per day in road accidents in Jammu and Kashmir. Shockingly, 3,595 persons have...

Political, Not Administrative – (II)

Picking up from where these columns left off on Tuesday, another priceless gem from the Cabinet Sub Committee report on new administrative units depicts the...

Fortune’s Favourite

As the wag said, there is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Not that Dr...

Take Hill Councils Call

The row over new administrative units in Jammu and Kashmir has almost been settled. But a long-pending demand of the people of the Pir...

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