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Kashmir Files: Many records missing

Vivek Agnihotri, the writer-director, has told us a Hate Story. The Kashmir Files, a revisionist docudrama that depicts the sad departure of Kashmiri Pandits...

Women: In the shackles of Capitalism

The philosophy of Capitalism is based on the concept of Positivism which puts the main emphasis on the dictum that man is an economic...

Politics and Sports Do Mix: On FIFA’s Hypocrisy in Palestine and the Need to Isolate Israel

Israel’s war on Palestinian sports is as old as the Israeli state itself. For Palestinians, sports is a critical aspect of their popular culture, and...

Plastic is the poison we are ingesting, knowingly

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacker remarked that “water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans”. Last week...

Establishment of IGNOU Regional Centre in Srinagar: Retrospect and Prospect

A word about Indira Gandhi National Open University Before we throw some light on the origin of IGNOU Regional Centre at Srinagar, a word about...

The sad plight of Forestry graduates in Jammu and Kashmir

In the recent recruitment notification of the JK Forest Department, Forestry graduates/post-graduates are not even eligible for a single post advertised Jammu and Kashmir’s natural...

Chinar: The Living Heritage of Kashmir

A stately tree, Chinar (Platanus orientalis) is noted for its antiquity, splendour, cool shade, and royal appearance. The tree can reach a height of...

Extradition Appeal of Julian Assange

Journalism is not a crime. But when Julian Assange's extradition to the United States became legal, it was a classic case on the attack...

Why I switched from smartphone to phone without internet

Life is precious. But a life that remains stagnant, unproductive, what is the point of it? My whole world was stagnant. It remained so...

A letter to an estranged friend

I approached and you responded. A spontaneous approach and a spontaneous reply. I never thought it would mark the beginning of a friendship and...

Digital Literacy Challenges and Opportunities

Schools are getting transformed into smart schools and online, on-demand, learner-centered learning is a universal reality. Hence, digital literacy is the fundamental pre-requisite to...

Moral education: ‘The positive teaching’

Moral education is teaching student about human values and virtues, including honesty, kindness, generosity, courage, freedom, equality, and respect to everyone. The goal is...

Antimicrobial Resistance: A Global Threat Demanding Immediate Collective Action

Antimicrobial Resistance, lest not addressed effectively, will render useless the progress made in the field of medicine to counter diseases caused by microbes and...

Virtues of the Water Chestnut (Singhara)

Water caltrop or water chestnut, Trapa Natans is a fruit of an aquatic weed. It has a single large white-coloured edible seed. In India...

Why don’t they print as much money as they want?

In spite of having the printing resources, why does a country still can't print unlimited money and give it to its population, pay off...

Russia is Ready to Replace France in West Africa

Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly be...

World shouldn’t forget the Rohingya refugee crisis even during this Ukraine war

The Rohingya and Afghan refugee issues are also currently important international issues. More than 1.1 million Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August...

Ukrainian Conflict and Western Oil Cartels

As long as Russia owns its own oil, the western oil cartels and the US empire's monopoly over the price of oil is vulnerable,...

War and civilian killings through the crooked spectacles of western media

Daniel Hannan of The Daily Telegraph argued, “This time, war is wrong because the people look like us and have Instagram and Netflix accounts....

Gender equality in J&K: A distant dream but an achievable one

International days are occasions and opportunities to educate people around the world on issues of public concern, to mobilise political will and resources to...

On Palestine’s Everyday Victories: Why Israel is No Longer the Exception

Can Israel be pressured? Or is Tel Aviv the only exception to the global political order in which every country, big or small, is...

Time for Indian agriculture to grow up

New techniques and practices are costly and demand expertise, so the government will have to play a major role in incentivising people to adopt...

The horrific brainwashing in Orwell’s 1984

I picked up 1984 by George Orwell and began to read it. The story is set in fictionalised Oceania, which is under a totalitarian...

If humanity was a religion

Every human being, of whatever origin, whatever station, deserves respect Life is all about making choices. Whatever I am today, or whatever I was in...

Biden splits Afghan reserve despite need for immediate aid

The message it communicates is clear: American lives are more important than Afghan lives, and American sorrow looms larger than Afghan grief President Joe Biden...

The Next Step in Palestine’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle is the Most Difficult

When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbors followed the event with keen...

Volunteers keeping Koshur alive!

Kashmiri language, commonly known as ‘Koshur’, belongs to the Dardic subgroup of Indo-Aryan languages. The language is primarily spoken in Jammu and Kashmir and...

Malware: Beware of the invisible threat

The term "malware" has been derived from "malicious software" and, in essence, is a piece of code or statements (in terms of computer programming...

Coriander: Cure for many ills

The oldest spice in the world is coriander. It has been used for around 7,000 years and it originated in Italy. It is a...

The Shining Star of Dardistan

Masood Al Hassan Samoon, a living legend from Gurez Shina is the language of the Dards living in the valley of Gurez Tulail. It is...

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