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The stigma of mental illness is a collective mental block

Mental health encompasses cognitive, behavioural and emotional well-being. Mental illness, thus, produces changes in emotion, behaviour and cognition. A person suffering from mental illness...

I Am Government College Baramulla

The year 1904 marks the beginning of my journey as St Joseph’s Primary School. I was gradually upgraded to Degree College in 1943. But...

The feminine and the divine: an insight

Kashmir’s women poets have suffered a strange fate. They have been celebrated, loved, respected, questioned, disputed, ignored, and distorted, all at once. The Kashmiri...

Digital Zombies: Our addiction to social media is allowing machines to manipulate us into destroying ourselves and each other

The two addictions that have engulfed the world are drugs and social media. In various ways social media and social networking companies have manipulated...

Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Behind the Scenes

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, two states that won sovereignty from the former communist Soviet Union...

World Animal Day: To be human is to be a friend to animals

Animals are worthy companions. They provide us support and companionship and make us better human beings. October 4, celebrated as world Animal Day, provides...

Mental illness in Kashmir: Causes and Consequences

Mental health and mental illness Mental health is a level of psychological well-being, a state in which a person is functioning well at the emotional...

Covid-19: A monster that may save us

The world was full of hustle and bustle. Be it office or school or college, everyone was occupied. Every year we would set goals...

Trading in Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange, acronymed as forex or FX, is the marketplace where almost all the national currencies are traded. It is a virtual electronic network...

Who is Mehdi?

There are authentic Hadiths which mention the appearance of the Mehdi. These Hadiths are of two types: • Those which mention him by name. • Those...

Darbar Move: A waste of time and money

During my childhood I used to tell my dad that I would love to work in the Srinagar secretariat, for it would allow me...

We the Children of Gaza: Poet, Fashionista, Footballer

The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed...

QUR’AN: Appreciating the Great Sign of God

The Quran is the ultimate divine guidance, the climax of knowledge (ilm) which humans have received or perceived. The Quran is guidance till eternity...

From Mainstream to Marginalised, Overnight!

The time’s up for the NC and PDP’s deceptive, opportunist politics Regional politics in Jammu and Kashmir is ambiguous all the year round and it...

What Kashmir is to India and Pakistan, Artsakh is to Armenia and Azerbaijan

Armenia and Azerbaijan sit in the south Caucasus, a crucial artery for gas and oil exports. The two countries have a long history of...

Hope in Despair

I was 19 when I started my own tourism business in 2009, and for all the volatile situation in Kashmir since then, my business,...

Nostalgia: Mr Late Lateef

Ramlal, our office clerk, was always late for work, and hence he was nicknamed "Mr Late Lateef". He was a tall, sturdy man with...

Rural-Urban Divide among Women

Amid the Covid lockdown, a well-known author from our valley invited me to join a webinar on “Rural and Urban Divide among Women”. I...

Physical disability should not be reason for unemployment

Number of Disabled Persons: According to Census 2011, India had 26,810,557 total disabled persons, of which 14,986,202 were males and 11,824,355 females. They comprise 2.21%...

Beyond Numbers: On the Future of the Palestinian Discourse

Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanizing, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else...

Climate change as cause and catalyst of infectious diseases

Climate change is a global phenomenon characterised by changes in temperature, precipitation, wind patterns, etc, and is especially caused by human activities. As a...

Create space for dissent in Kashmir

Democracy is a system that provides for fundamental rights, universal adult franchise, separation of powers of the state, due process of law, independent judiciary,...

Understanding Schizophrenia

Before discussing schizophrenia, lets us briefly discuss classifications of diseases in psychiatry. Psychiatry has given a simple classification of psychiatric disorders: 1. Neurotic: When contact...

To lose a language

“Losing the language means losing the culture. We need to know who we are because it makes a difference to who our children are.”—Dottie...

The Battle between Gun and Book

Kashmiri youth are finding themselves at an intersection where not only does any destination seem too far away, but their very lives appear so...

Victims of Dowry in Srinagar: Five Case Studies

There were 7,628 dowry-related deaths of women in the year 2016, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Under the Dowry Prohibition Act passed...

Kashmir’s Suffocating Patriarchy

Recently, I came across a news photo feature in one of the leading Kashmir based social media news portals that showed an assortment of...

Do Democrats and Republicans Differ on Palestine and Israel?

The polarised nature of American politics often makes it difficult to address fundamental differences between the country’s two main political rivals, Republicans and Democrats....

Causes of Violence in Jammu and Kashmir

Since 1586, when the Mughals conquered Kashmir, we have been subjected to many occupations. On March 9, 1846, the Sikhs or the Lahore Darbar...

Paharis are also part of us

The state must declare Pahari as one of the official languages of J&K The word Pahari is derived from the word pahar, which means mountain....

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