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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Shahid Akhtar
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient towards redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying, losses.”
—Thomas Jefferson
Before the onset of civilisation, there may have...
Dr Muhammad Muzamil
Viruses are infamous for their morbidity. But despite having such a bad reputation, these tiny creatures can sometimes be very friendly to...
Syed Suhail Yaqoob
There was a time when Bollywood ‘nationalistic’ or ‘patriotic’ movies stereotyped the Muslim male as savage, conservative, and altogether a villain, while...
Suraya Haidar
Among various precautions that need to be taken against the novel coronavirus, maintaining “social distance” has been chiefly advised. This has become a...
Bilal Ahmad Dar
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. – Carl Sagan
The corona pandemic – which defies not only diagnosis but also medication...
While the Coronavirus continues to ravage almost every nation on earth, Arab countries remain unable, or unwilling, to formulate a collective strategy to help...