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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....

What we do to the environment is what we do to ourselves

Self-interest is one of the defining features of human nature. There is an impulse in all of us to strive for pleasure and happiness...

Why Are We Leaderless?

Plato, the teacher of Aristotle, said that a leader is an asset of the state. Plato further says that a leader always is a...

Are There Social Classes in Islam?

If we go back to Islam, the concept of social classes doesn’t exist at all. The only criteria upon which a person is to...

The Unspoken Language

23 September: International Day of Sign Languages Greeting someone by joining our hands, or flashing the sign of victory with a “V”, or a smiling...

Social Media and the Individual

We live in the era where almost everything has been digitalised. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that social media now dominates our lives....

Attention please, DC Kulgam, to Pedestrian Footpaths

As a kid I often heard from my elders that if you come across a stone on a road, pick it up and put...

Ban on Chinese Apps a Smart Strategy

On June 29, India banned 59 Chinese apps after a deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in which 20 Indian soldiers lost their lives....

UN’s Diamond Anniversary: A Sombre Celebration

At 75, UN needs a boost to multilateralism The 75th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, which began on 15 September, has been unlike any other...

Nostalgia: The Telegram Man

Some people become a part of our memories and leave an indelible mark on our mind due to their sheer disposition and manner. Same...

The management of zoonoses in Kashmir

Zoonoses are infectious diseases (virus, bacteria and parasites) that can be spread from animals to humans, and vice versa. Zoonoses can spread from direct...

Art has become a commodity, an extremely expensive one: Michiel Van der Wal

A law student in the Netherlands moved to New York to ‘look at art’, and there he developed an eye that collectors blindly trust...

Elementary lessons for a teacher

Being a teacher, I would like to chip in with some ideas to make the teaching and learning process more effective. Firstly, a teacher...

Repercussions of a Political Vacuum

In the disputed Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, there is a political vacuum since June 2018. It was then that the poles-apart coalition...

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