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REINVENTING MUSEUMS

Tejshvi Jain is a museum expert who is the founder of Rereeti, an organisation working to remould the current structure of Indian art museums...

Bolster your immune system to battle coronavirus

Dr Ashfauq Farooq Aga The Coronavirus pandemic has turned the world’s attention to the immune system, the body’s defence force against disease-causing bacteria, viruses and...

War-Torn Middle East Faces a Catastrophe

Mudasir Ali Dar Coronavirus has brought the world to a standstill, crippling economies, industrial activity, and even wars and fighting stand paused everywhere. Globalisation’s axioms...

Banks: Potential Covid-19 Hotspots

Sameer Fida Hussain Abdul Aziz Bhat anxiously waits for his turn to withdraw money from his saving bank account in one of the branches of...

Are ventilators lifeline for Covid patients or deathtraps?

Sheikh Ahmad Umar With every passing day, new and unusual facts about the novel coronavirus are coming to light. Much of the knowledge unearthed during...

Attacks on freedom of speech are meant to turn citizens into slaves

TAWFEEQ IRSHAD MIR When the founders of the Indian Constitution were drafting various provisions related to freedom of speech and expression, they did not mention...

When the Ottoman Empire fell, the Islamic world fell apart

Shahid Amin Malik The television series on the founding fathers of one of the greatest empires of the world, the Ottoman Empire, reveals the extraordinary...

Time to plan for post-Covid situation

SOFI RAFIQ Covid-19 has endangered human lives as well as national economies. The entire world has been put under a great lockdown which will have...

Not the time to pit religion against science

Sheikh Ahmad Umar Dear fellow Kashmiris, It is very disturbing and disheartening to see the state of chaos, confusion and panic creeping all over Kashmir amid...

Ramadan in the midst of a pandemic

Haroon Rashid Fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam and is observed annually by the majority of the...

Adversity is the best teacher

Peerzada Umar & Shabeer Rather Shiv Shankar Menon, Indian diplomat and former National Security Adviser, has said of the post Covid-19 situation: “We are headed...

Flaws not just in system but in society exposed by Covid-19

Sajad Dar and Mehraj Wani It was only when a Lok Sabha MP, Dushyant Singh, suspected to be a Covid-19 carrier visited Parliament that the...

The Vulnerable Elderly

Sardar Rameez Sudhan “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain. Aging is natural, but certain problems...

Trump Versus WHO

Shabir Ahmad US President Donald Trump has decided to freeze funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and has accused the international organisation of mismanaging...

Vilification more vicious than the virus

Nadeem Khurshidi ’Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world Hamlet Trump is trumped, Johnson...

Kashmir not an exception to ‘theory of natural rights’

Naveed Ahmad Mir Kashmir is one of the most militarised places on earth. Violation of human rights is the everyday business of the state. People...

Corona and Co-Existence

Zahid Mushtaq As we emerge from a severe winter in Kashmir, we move into yet another symbolic winter in the middle of April, with an...

A Litmus Test for Globalisation

Irfan ul Haq Covid-19 can prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the back of the global liberal economy. Since it exploded in the...

HALAAT-E-HAZIRA

Alexa, what is comedy? The quality of being amusing or making people laugh… Thank you, Alexa. Where can I find this comedy? Everywhere you look. Or just...

Ambedkar’s Views on Partition and Pakistan

Manzoor Ahmad Rather Pakistan or The Partition of India’ is the title of Volume 8 of ‘Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches’. Dr Ambedkar in...

The Doleful Tale of an Unfortunate Batch

Sayiqa Haidar Kashmir is at once known for her incredible natural beauty and endless conflict and violence. Between these two big pictures, the sad situation...

Who Cares for Border Dwellers

Bilal Ahmad Dar People living near the Line of Control (LoC) are also living in the line of fire. These dwellers are for the most...

The aesthetic propaganda of Shikara

The moon of Kashmiri Pandits surely has blood clots on it, but that of Kashmiri Muslims is drenched in blood. Asif Khan & Arbeena With his...

Ignored Herb, Valuable Vegetable

Dandelion, despite its health benefits, has been reduced to a poor man’s plate Aarif Maqbool Common name: Dandelion Kashmiri: Handd Botanical name: Taraxacum officinale Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family) Dandelion is...

On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: April 17

Ramzy Baroud’s latest book, These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, consists of twenty stories narrated or directly...

We find ourselves in a ‘boundary situation’

Dr Javid Ahmad Mallah The horror of Covid-19 has made it clear that the post-modern world makes for a very unsatisfactory human condition. This critical...

Know your Viruses: They are Quite Interesting

Prof Shakil Ahmad Wani Smallest bits of life Viruses are the smallest living entities known to mankind with one exception of Prions. Their size is too...

India’s ‘composite culture’ is legacy of the wise

Ashraf Amin Conventionally, the phrase “composite culture” has been used to describe the symbiosis and syncretism between Hindu and Muslim cultural traditions in the medieval...

Ambedkar and his nation

Syed Mustafa Ahmad When the diverse land of ours is heading for a Hindu Rashtra, the moment is apt to study the thoughts of Dr...

Pause in Modern Life is Cause for Celebration

M Junaid Jazib Snow-clad Himalayan slopes are visible from the plains of Punjab. Blue skies are visible from the streets of Delhi. The noise of...

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