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Book Review: Kashmir’s resistance politics also shapes feminist struggles

Shah Munnes Muneer Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir Author: Inshah Malik Pages: 130 ISBN: 9783319953304 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2018) This book is a collection of...

The Joy that was Thej Kaad, glorious day of our old Kashmiri life

Mushtaq Hurra Villages are the factories which provide the country with cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits. Paddy cultivation is an important agricultural activity in our...

You Deserve A Break, Mother

Shafat Ali Dar On a usual lockdown day, after I was done basking under the glow of my smartphone, I decided that I should sleep....

How the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded

Raja Furqan Ahmed On October 16, 1962, US national security advisor Mcgeorge opened his daily briefing book at the White House. There were two memos...

BJP’s Failed Venture in Kashmir

Shazia Farooq On Aug 5, 2019, when the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was unilaterally revoked, New Delhi stated that this “constitutional transformation” was...

Books as Liberators in Lockdown

I've travelled the world twice over, met the famous saints and sinners, poets and artists, kings and queens, old stars and hopeful beginners. I've...

Government Schools Need a Big Hand

Showkat Ahmad Wani There are always comparisons between the performance of government schools and that of private schools. Most of the times, government schools are...

Byron’s Turkish Tales through the Prism of Literary/ Romantic Orientalism

Asmat Jan Literary Orientalism’ is simply defined either as ‘the depiction of the Orient/ Orientalism in western literary texts’ or ‘the study of the (mis)...

The Importance of Digital Literacy for Women

Syed Mustafa Ahmad With the advent of science and technology, the need for technological skills has assumed more importance. Being literate is not enough. Literacy...

MANU PAREKH

‘My criticism of Indian art is that we are still not rooted in our environment. There is tremendous possibility for doing so in our...

LALITHA LAJMI

‘I feel that for an artist, passion and focus should remain. If you change your art to suit someone else, then your art goes...

Covid-19: Know Thy Enemy and Divine The Sign

Shakil Ahmad Wani We are struggling to understand how the novel coronavirus tears through the human body. We know that it reaches for the lungs...

Indelible scars of Enforced Disappearances

Zahid Yousuf Mantoo There are reportedly more than 8,000 cases of enforced disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir. These disappearances began in the 1990s even before...

A very different Eid

Dr Reyaz Ahmad Ganaie This year at the end of the fasting month of Ramzan when the state sponsored Ruet-e-Hilal Committee in neighbouring Pakistan announced...

The Battle of Badr

JAVAID AHMAD WAGAY At Badr took place the first major encounter between the newly-born nation of Muslims and the unbelievers (Kaafireen), the Quraish of Makkah....

The United Nations Peacekeeping Force

Syed Mustafa Ahmad Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his defence of UN Peacekeeping forces said, “The first United Nations peacekeeping operation (Congo, 1960) was...

Respect for a corrupt doctor, disdain for an honest policeman

Kaiser Maqbool Perhaps our need for some consistency and predictability in our lives makes it tempting to generalise lessons we’ve managed to learn in certain...

The Fragility of Human Life and Society: Exposed

The modern world economy is characterised by ravaging of natural resources and over-dependence of economies on each other. It is, in the long run,...

Judiciary in Service of the Executive: The Case of the Supreme Court

Younis Ahad The maxim “ubi jus ibi remedium” means that where there is a right, there is a remedy. It is a foundational principle of...

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data as Shield against Coronavirus

Akhtar Nazir & Dr Abrar Ul Haq Wani The medical-scientific response to Covid-19 is analogous to that towards the previous epidemic of SARS but with...

Some rational arguments against the romantic defence of poplar trees

Nadeem Mubarik Citizens of Kashmir have been facing health problems due to the fluffy cotton seeds shed by poplar trees, also known as Russian poplars....

The Butterfly Effect on the Covid Pandemic

Aaniqa Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on the study of chaos- states of dynamical systems whose apparently random states of disorder and...

Pregnancy: A time to be strong, healthy and wise

Farheen Sabah ‘Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body,...

YAMINI TELKAR

Yamini Telkar has been an accomplished art historian in the Indian art industry and has been engaging with its various facets for the past...

An Artist Loses her Maps in Covid-19 Lockdown

PRERNA SM JAIN The bustling city life has come to a standstill. Empty roads, absence of the daily humdrum, and a prolonged lockdown has created...

The Vale of Kashmir in the Tale of Lalla Rookh

RATHER NASIR Shelly, one of the great romantic poets, said that “Poetry makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”. He...

Book Review: A superficial crash course on Kashmir

Arshid Aziz Kashmir: Rage and Reason By Gowhar Geelani Rupa Publications Pages: 288 Price: Rs 395 On July 17, 2019, the book ‘Kashmir: Rage and Reason’ by Gowhar Geelani was...

Abdication of Judicial Responsibility in India

NADEEM KHURSHIDI In April 1976, when the Emergency was in place in India, The New York Times in a glorifying article titled ‘Fading Hope in...

The lessonstaught by Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq

NAYEEM IBN AMIN The late Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq’s vision was for a politically stable, educationally enlightened, and united Kashmir. The Mirwaiz is particularly remembered for...

No Master of Philosophy in Kashmir

To, The Honourable Governor Union Territory of J&K Respected Sir, Though a lot has already been written on the issue which I address in this letter, unfortunately nothing...

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