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Book Review: Character at stake

This is a Russian classic and translated into English by CJ Hogarth. I read the Arcturus Publishers edition of 200 pages. Dostoyevsky wrote this...

Book Review: The crop of conflict that never ceases to grow

Author: Shakoor Rather Publisher: Speaking Tiger Year: 2021 Price: Rs 350 (paperback) It is an art to present conflict before the world in formats people are interested in....

The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel uses ‘the Law’ to ethnically cleanse East Jerusalem

A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion...

Islam abhors suicide as worst of sins

Every religion forbids praying for death, so how is it possible for a person to be entitled to suicide due to suffering from hardships,...

Breaking the lull with Bangladesh?

An interesting choice Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook his first foreign visit since the beginning of the Covid pandemic to Bangladesh. Indeed, foreign affairs...

Women as Entrepreneurs

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has said that “if illiterate and poor women can transform themselves into entrepreneurs, imagine what millions of high school and...

Shed prejudice as you would a burden

Prejudice can be defined as a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason. Oliver Goldsmith, an Irish poet and essayist, rightly maintained that...

My first visit to Tulip Garden

Snuggled on the foothills of the Zabarwan mountain range at an altitude of 5,600 feet, overlooking the fabulous Dal Lake, in Siraj Bagh besides...

Strangers to our native land: Burzahom, Gufkaral, and other Neolithic sites in Kashmir

When did man stop wandering and settle somewhere? About 10,000 years ago, in the Middle East, human beings learnt the skills of agricultural cultivation...

Be aware of the threat of Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is counted among the top 10 killer infectious diseases. According to a report of World Health Organization (WHO), TB is a worldwide...

Smile, and change the world

Hapiness is a feeling of joy and positivity. It is the most valuable thing in the world. On March 20, 2021, Finland was ranked...

Sewerage & Drainage Issues of Srinagar City

Extracts of the paper presented by Er Mohammad Ashraf Fazili, FIE, at the Workshop on Sewerage & Drainage issues of Srinagar City, held at...

Looking for superheroes? Look for your father

The father grows old while raising a child to youth. He wears poor clothes but provides for fine clothes. While working for his child’s...

The moral system of Islam and our responsibilities

Allah Almighty has given man a place among the noblest of creatures and has given him the status of the noblest from day one....

‘Ihsaan’: Knowledge of God through Knowledge of the Human

This article should be read in continuation with my previous one, “Does Quran contain Tasawwuf (Spirituality)”, published in Kashmir Reader, March 19, 2021, where...

Women deserve much more than what they get

When will people realise the value of a woman? Ever since I grew up, I started realising my position in society. I used to...

Understand ‘Time-Barred Arrears Claims’

To understand the referred rules in the contents of the circular issued by Finance Department under circular No. A/23 (08)-I-B-184, dated 18-02-2021, it is...

Tramkhan: Most Mysterious Cave of Kalaroos

Last year when the world was contending with Covid, I took a chance to explore my district (Kupwara), following all Covid related precautions. Initially,...

Biden’s China Policy Doomed from the Start

A much anticipated American foreign policy move under the Biden Administration on how to counter China’s unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in...

A place for Downtown in Smart City Srinagar

In technical terms, downtown is the nucleus area of the city, the heart of the entire urban system. It is also often the oldest...

Abdul Ahad Azad: Poet of the Future

It is believed that when Adam (Pbuh) left heaven, the land of Kashmir emerged on earth. Once our patron saint, Sheikh ul Alam, said...

When democracy feels like dictatorship

In 1975 when Indira Gandhi declared Emergency through the then President Fakharuddin Ali Ahmed, the decision was later ratified by Parliament. She was bestowed...

Does our career make us or do we make our careers

To everyone of us it might be a difficult question to answer, yet a valuable topic to be emphasised upon, so that the education...

Tyranny of Merit: Reading Michael Sandel

Meritocracy results in a politics of humiliation wherein those who are left behind, the losers, are forced to accept that they are complicit in...

The many benefits of eating Kishmish (Raisins)

Saadat Tansur Raisins are dried grapes of the Vitis vinifera plant. Kashmiri raisins are locally called as kishmish. Raisins are created by drying grapes, either...

Human behaviour and social relations

Every man is influenced by the society in which he lives. He depends on other people and other people depend on him in many...

Elections under Fire: Palestine’s Impossible Democracy Dilemma

Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare a stance on whether they support or reject...

The ‘Secular Spring’: Nowruz in Kashmir

Most people think of Kashmiri culture in terms of binary of Kashmiri Pandit and Kashmiri Muslim culture, but the reality is that Kashmir’s culture...

Does Quran contain Tasawwuf (spirituality)?

Is Sufism authentically Islamic, or alien to Islam? Many people unfortunately have a misunderstanding of Tasawwuf or Sufism. They think it is something beyond the...

High on their nutritive, medicinal properties add Mushrooms to your diet

Mushroom is also known as toadstool, it’s a fleshy, spore -bearing fruiting body. The term "mushroom" and its variations may have been derived from...

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