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Portugal Leads the Way: How European Countries Fared in Their Treatment of Refugees

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading its tentacles throughout China and eventually to the rest of the world,...

No PDA in pandemic

BILAL AHMAD DAR When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. Shakespeare Covid-19 is proving to be a Pandora’s Box of troubles. Apart...

India: A decaying civilisation

JAVEED AHMAD RAINA India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and...

The legality of indefinite internet restrictions

ABRAR REYAZ On Monday, the Supreme Court of India reserved orders (when this column was being written) on a bunch of petitions that had challenged...

The biggest enemy of Islam is the ignorant Muslim

Prof Shakil Ahmad Wani In the good old days there used to be joint families. There used to be many sons and consequently many daughters-in-law....

The silencing of students

Alsaba Binyamin Amir Mintoee, a student of Aligarh Muslim University, was arrested by police during a food distribution campaign organised by his own NGO for...

Discrimination and stereotyping in Covid-19 responses

Dr Showkat Ahmad Lone Outbreaks of disease, especially infectious disease, naturally create fear, but too much of fear produces social evils like racism and xenophobia....

Arms, Ammunition and Coronavirus

Arshad Majid Rather Every year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) publishes global military spending figures, as well as those of international trade in...

Book Review: Why the secular nation state is impossible in Islam

Showkat Ahmad Wagay Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World, Shadi Hamid (St. Martin’s Press, 2016). 320 pp Shadi Hamid, an eminent scholar...

The guest who never returned

Majid Kirmani I remember a day in the early ’90s when a helpless person knocked on our door late in the evening. When we opened...

A Coffin in Cashmere

AHMAD KASHMIRI The funeral is of an elderly man, 72 year old, a native of Qazipora near Tangmarg, on the way to the world-famous tourist...

ART GALLERIES

Prerna SM Jain Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, art galleries across the globe have suffered an enormous setback. As the Director of Volte...

LINA VINCENT

Lina Vincent is an art historian and curator with over 17 years of experience. She is committed to socially engaged arts practice, a commitment...

Hajin shows the way in dark, dreadful times

Javeed Bin Nabi Each day brings news of more and more persons infected with the dreaded coronavirus. Thousands are under quarantine across Jammu & Kashmir....

Journalism Under Siege

Bilal Ahmad Dar Objective and unbiased journalism should be encouraged but in Kashmir it is considered as a crime. Journalists who report objectively are not...

Surrender not privacy blindly to the pandemic

Mohmad Maqbool Waggy The rigorous use of contract tracing, across digital and physical spheres, has been widely credited with helping to limit the spread of...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to August 5

Tanveer Rashid Magrey August 5, 2019. This day has been entombed with indelible ink in the inner recesses of my head. The preceding events of...

Addiction to smartphones, internet not good for students

Malik Javid A few months back I was asked to attend a five-day training programme on teaching of mathematics at the elementary level. Since I...

The photograph as medium and vanguard of truth

Mir Sajad We live in times when everything is designed and manufactured to sell. Realities or truths are not immune to this ‘production’ process. Photographs...

On Gramsci’s ‘Interregnum’ and Zizek’s Ethnocentric Philosophy

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo With prophecies afoot of the post-Covid19 world, even discredited philosophers such as Slavoj Zizek tried to stage a comeback, offering...

The Brotherhood of Islam

Aamir Sultan The Muslims are like a single man. If the eye is afflicted, then the whole body is afflicted. If the head is afflicted,...

RISING ISLAMOPHOBIA IN INDIA

Yasir Ahmad At the time of independence Muslims were given a right to either join India or Pakistan. Despite being warned of dire consequences, many...

Religious Freedom and Tolerance in Islam

Ashraf Amin When Prophet Muhammad (SAW) proclaimed his religion as Islam, he never spoke in exclusive terms. He felt proud to be among the descendants...

The Malady of Envy

Artuk “Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.” – Gore Vidal What makes us wish ill for others is Envy – a severe disease...

A letter to my students

Danish Iqbal Raina My Dear Students Hello, I wish you all good health. We are facing an unprecedented health and it really is a hard and...

EINSTEIN AND THE QUANTUM CONUNDRUM

What’s so eerie about quantum mechanics that made Einstein, one of the founders of the theory, reluctant to accept its implications? ZUBAIR AHMAD Apart from mathematical...

Lessons from HIV AIDS pandemic for COVID-19

SHABIR AHMAD Countries around the world are relying on a hybrid strategy of imposing lockdowns and scaling up testing to combat COVID-19 but this strategy...

Carbon Dioxide: Destroyer of Species

Asyia Qadir Thanks to Covid19, carbon dioxide emissions have lessened in many countries, but when the world will return to normalcy, industries will function normally...

Muzzling voices, silencing dissent

Recently, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) came out with its 2020 press freedom index. The assessment of press freedom was based on such aspects as...

FREEDOM OF PRESS IN AGE OF ‘RETREATING DEMOCRACY’

Rohool Banka India is not just a democracy but the largest democracy in the world. But what is democracy? Let’s analyse first the old-school definition....

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