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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....

The Many Treasures of Yousmarg

IQRA YASEEN Situated about 50 km from Srinagar, Yousmarg is located in the western part of Kashmir Valley. It is often designated as the Meadow...

The East Wind is Coming for Dissent in India

ABRAR A MATTOO The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to make the most out of the Covid-19 crisis. The propaganda machinery of the party...

Why oil is in the doldrums

Shafqat Qurashi It's such a huge global disruption that we are not able to find an adjective to describe it. Do we call it Big...

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...

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