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‘Humanity is everything for me and I have not forgotten my roots’

Prerna SM Jain Udit Narayan’s is a voice that needs no recognition. It is as familiar as one’s own voice for every Indian who has...

Beautiful Twin Lakes Tarsar & Marsar

Tarsar is an alpine lake changing its colours throughout the day while Marsar has a mysterious, forbidding quality to it BASIT HASSAN The 16th-century Kashmiri ruler...

Private schools as the greedy face of capitalism

UBAID BUKHARI Marxism may be flawed, and a communist society a failure, but there is no denying the fact that the critique of capitalism remains...

India’s shift to militarism to counter China’s revanchist power

Tahir Bhat The biggest strategic challenge facing India today is ‘systemic’. India is trying to figure out its position in the contemporary international system, because...

Having a daughter doesn’t make a man decent

Peer Shaista Shakeel Having a daughter doesn’t make a man decent, having a wife doesn’t make a man decent; treating people with dignity and respect...

Covid-19: Myth of ‘immunity boosters’

Neither Vitamin C nor zinc nor any food boosts immunity; only exercise does Saadat Tansur Since the coronavirus pandemic struck, recovery in most cases has largely...

Article 370 and Supreme Court

Tajamul Islam Taking such a step as abrogating J&K's special status and turning it into a union territory was not possible without the suppression of...

Article 370 & Kashmiri Women

Limya Mahajan Liberty should encompass all aspects, whether political or economic. The structure of liberty is a double helix: one strand -- political freedom --...

August 13: International Left-Handers Day

Left is Right! Amit Singh Kushwaha "Yes, I am left-handed!”. My unconscious mind prefers to do any work with the left hand. Sometimes, people wonder when...

The freedom that flourishes in the poetry of Habba Khatoon and Sarojini Naidu

Bintul Islam is doing her research on a comparative study of the poetry of Habba Khatoon and Sarojini Naidu. "I have chosen this topic...

Engaging our youth in productive occupations

Dr Tasneem Mubarak 12th of August is celebrated as International Youth Day every year since the UN General Assembly endorsed the recommendation that came out...

Pregnancy in the pandemic

Asyia Qadir Pregnant women may easily fall prey to the Covid-19 pandemic because their immune system is already in strain. During pregnancy a woman undergoes...

Nationalism Redefined

In India nationalism is being described not as loyalty to the nation state, as in the European example, but as devotion to a particular...

Tel Aviv gripped with fear at ICC investigation of war crimes

When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda confirmed last December that the court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation...

National Education Policy 2020: Text and Context

Shahzad Hussain The National Education Policy (henceforth NEP) 2020 is a welcome step in equipping the Indian education system for the twenty-first century. Looking only...

An impractical, imposed education policy

Muheeb Ahad The education system has been a space of contestation among scholars and academicians throughout the country. Since India achieved independence, a multitude of...

Sleep well to stay healthy

Gowhar Rashid When we are under the weather or knackered, the instructive and advisable words are always, “Go to bed”. Indeed, sleep is the best...

Sexual harassment of women at the workplace

Nadeem Khaliq Unsolicited and unwanted acts of a sexual nature, also known as “eve-teasing”, are not a new phenomenon in India. Sexual harassment is rooted...

A Woman’s Place: Beneath the Man in Kashmiri Society

Laws prohibiting gender biases cannot make a difference unless they are alien to the collective consciousness of society. What needs to be fixed is...

Gossip: The Thief of Reputation

‘O you who have believed, avoid assumptions. And do not spy or backbite each other.’ The Holy Qur’an Bisma Shafi Bhat The above mentioned ‘ayah’ refers to...

Night out in the mountains

Arfat Wani Anxiety, stress and depression are some of the most common causes of insomnia. We didn't have insomnia but we did have a phobia...

Reclaiming of Hagia Sophia is rejection of the west’s neo-colonialism

Mohmad Maqbool Waggy Hagia Sophia (Aaya Sofia in Turkish) is located in Istanbul's heart and means ‘divine wisdom’. It was initially established as an Eastern...

Aherbal: Crown Jewel of Kulgam

Tawseef Ahmad Mir Kashmir is undoubtedly dotted with numerous picturesque places across its length and breadth. From vast green pastures and magnificent snow-capped mountain ranges...

Those 14 days of August that will haunt me forever

Waleed Bin Owais I was driving and heading towards my home located in the suburbs of Srinagar, in the month of July when the sun...

Viral Hepatitis is preventable

Dr Subhash Gupta Even though preventable, viral hepatitis is still the second major infectious disease in the world after TB. Worldwide, 9 out of 10...

PARADISE LOST

Shafi Rather Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state during the British East India Company rule as well as the British Raj in India from...

Decline of the Indian Leadership

Hilal Lone Political ideology of the leadership of a country depends upon the aspirations of the people and their religious, cultural, economic and regional background....

Palestinian Eyewitness Testimony of the Execution of Abdul Fattah al-Sharif by Israeli Soldier Elor Azaria

As illegal Jewish settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al Khalil (Hebron), the people of the Palestinian city...

Days before Eid

We might be spending hefty amounts in decorating and building mosques, sacrificing costly animals on Eid; we visit graveyards on Eid and remember our...

God is one but also not ‘one’

Khubaib Mujtaba In a paradox, the literal meaning is never the true meaning. Understanding only the surface meaning of a paradox is to misunderstand the...

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