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The Sacrifice of All Doubts

Abid Hussain Rather The Islamic calendar starts with the month of Muharram and ends with the month of Dhu al-Hijjah. When we look at these...

The Zenith of Faith

WAKEEL AHMAD MIR Dark clouds of Covid-19 loom over this year’s Eid al-Adha, one of the most important festivals of Muslims. Eid is an event...

To conserve forests and plant trees is to do Ibadat

BASIT HASSAN Forests have a significance not only for the environment but as the 14th-century Sufi saint and poet Sheikh Noor-ud-Din said, “Ann poshi teli...

Covid-afflicted economy needs ‘Unbalanced Growth’

Binish Qadri The balanced-growth model assumes all economic variables growing at a similar rate. On the other hand, the unbalanced-growth model assumes all economic variables...

Virtual Passing-Out Parade for JK Police trainees

Mohammad Shoaib The situation is grim due to Covid-19 but that is no reason to delay the passing out of trainees at the Sher-e-Kashmir Police...

Teaching right values more important than teaching syllabus

Aijaz Ahmad Dar Walking just a half kilometre from my locality, one can count or locate at least ten schools. Walking a further 100 or...

Why Kashmiris Think Coronavirus is a Hoax

The backlash is coming not from 'extremists' but nationalists who were made to believe all Hindus are their enemies Ubaid Bukhari Not everything can be negative...

Faculty of Forestry sets example to learn from

JAUHAR RAFEEQ The arrival of the novel coronavirus in India shut down educational institutes across the country. On March 16, we at Sher-i-Kashmir University of...

A success story from Kulgam in the field of integrated farming

Dr Tasneem Mubarak There is no denying the fact that farmers in many parts of the country are in distress. The farming sector produces very...

Remembering Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Rayees Ahmad Kumar "Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realising that everyone has a different question...

When thoughts of suicide seize the mind -I

Ayaan Zia It is estimated that about 15 percent of the adult population will experience depression at some point in their life. The World Health...

When thoughts of suicide seize the mind -II

Mohmad Maqbool Waggy Hamlet is contemplating suicide. Not in grief or mystification, but with astounding lucidity and logic. He has lost his father and is...

Altaf Bukhari’s dangerous populist pharmacy

Modern drugs must be handled by professionals specifically trained for the purpose and not by me-too Medical Assistants Imtiyaz Ahmad Mr Altaf Bukhari, a businessman turned...

‘Optimism of the Will’ and Palestine’s Freedom

While logical analysis of a situation may lead the intellect to despair, the potential for social and political revolutions and transformations must keep us...

Mountains of Banihal

Arfat Wani More than 50 million people visit mountains each year around the world. Many mountain towns depend solely on tourists to earn a living....

Beware, ye Muslims, of the misleading ways of Liberalism

Mugees ul Kaisar Modernist Muslims who cut themselves off from tradition, thinking that with the passage of time we develop better understanding of things, are...

Polytechnic education plagued with problems in J&K

The intake capacity of seats in polytechnic programmes should be reduced in both government as well as private colleges, while the Lateral Entry quota...

Jammuites being looted with Toll Plazas

Ivkar Hussain Malik The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) recently started the Lakhhanpur toll plaza in district Kathua on Pathankot-Jammu National Highway 44. Now...

Time to Assess Our Moral Character

Haseeb Qureshi Character. We know it when we see it. Maybe, more importantly, we know it when it is missing. Good and bad character both...

A Narrow World of Nationalists

Shabeer Rather In 1960, sociologist Daniel Bell argued that centuries of ideological debates were coming to a close. The end of tyrannical communism and rise...

The hullaballoo over Hagia Sophia

Outrage over the reconversion of the building to a mosque stems from the historical hurt that conservative Christians, masquerading as clones of liberalism, still...

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones:

J. Joubert Book buying is a passion. Academicians and students love to buy books. They have a natural propensity towards book buying. Whether we read...

An Open Letter to the Grand Mufti of Jammu & Kashmir

Esteemed Sir Asalamu Alykum Hope my words find you in the best of health. I feel it my utmost duty to write to you that our...

The feminism in Islam

Zubair Rashid Women in Islam are thought to be subjugated, degraded, oppressed – but are they really? Are millions of Muslims simply that oppressive or...

The kind of professor we need in Kashmir

Muzamil Rashid I had no guidance related to studies here in Kashmir after I passed 10+2 with PCB subjects, and then did a Bachelors from...

Re-Emerging India-China Border Tensions

Bhat Mukhtar & Mubashir Shah In International relations there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies. Peace is a pre-requisite for development of any county/region....

Still in thrall to those storytellers

Mushtaq Hurra Storytelling has been an age-old way of transmitting knowledge from one person to another and from one generation to another. It is still...

The night of the encounter

Ummar Jamal On the afternoon of 11th July, my father asked me to carry my nephew back to his home. He had come to our...

Why does no one care for Khumani Chowk Bemina ?

SHAMIM HUSSAINI On behalf of the people of Khumani Chowk Bemina, I would like to ask the district administration Budgam what they have done –...

Dialogue between an Islamist and a Post-Islamist

The resonance that one discovers, though with much intellectual labour, between Dr Israr Ahmad’s advocacy of the Islamic state and Javed Ahmad Ghamidi’s blunt...

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