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VERMICOMPOST: THE BLACK DIAMOND

UMAR MAJEED KHAN Aristotle said, “Worms are the intestines of the earth”, and Charles Darwin wrote a book on worms in which he declared that...

Tourism and Durga festival in Doda

Mool Raj I would like to draw attention to some of the tourist attractions in district Doda. The Chenab Valley in Doda district has numerious...

The birds and me

I never appreciated the freedom of breath that I had Until my lungs choked. I am home quarantined None but two things happen now: the day...

The contagion is also in the mind

DR ABRAR-UL HAQ WANI & DR MUZAFFAR SHAHEEN Steven Soderbergh’s movie ‘Contagion’ is now playing out in real. COVID-19 took just two months to become...

IBN BATTUTA, THE GLOBE-TROTTER

JAHANGEER AHMAD KUMAR In the centuries between 1400 and 1800, visitors to India wrote a number of travelogues in Persian. At the same time, Indian...

Words acquire meanings, shed feelings

MUDASIR KHAN There was a time when the very word used to send a chill down the spine. But the world has progressed and words...

Conquest of the World by A Mighty Pathogen

TAWSEEF AHMAD KHAN Nations are in a state of chaos. Even after putting all their resources to use and channelising all their energies, they have...

There is a war at the border in Poonch and nobody is bothered

Garima Sharma From the conception of nation-building processes, borderlands have been one of the most beleaguered spaces. When borders are formed, they not only demarcate...

Coronavirus has revealed the nature of power

DAVID RUNCIMAN We keep hearing that this is a war. Is it really? What helps to give the current crisis its wartime feel is the...

Acquaint Yourself With Scientific Facts and Do Not Go By Popular Opinion

G.N BHAT & DR NAWAB JAN DAR The novel coronavirus is named as SARS-CoV-2. SARS-Cov was first reported in Asia in February 2003, though cases...

Beware of the lure of likes and comments

SAIQA JAB If technology has brought us cl oser, how come there are even more lonely people in the world around us now? Why do...

‘Superpowers’ quake before the power of a virus

ARIF AHMAD MIR Design comes from a designer, laws come from a law giver, life comes from a life giver, creation comes from a creator....

Fight Not Just Coronavirus But Also Irrationality and Fatalism

ZAHOOR AHMAD SHAH In Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the valley, there is no dearth of sermonisers and preachers stressing on having faith in God....

Israeli Weapons Find New Market In India, Europe, Asia

Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, the Middle East region is the dumping ground for military hardware. Data released...

Science and religion make not for a contradiction

BHAT ZAIEEM God helps those who help themselves with thoughtful prudence. The practice of Islam has been hit harder than any other religion by the...

Covid-19: Call it Kashmir

ARIFA GANI My Saturday started with an interesting piece of news from Italy. I learnt from a popular international news channel that an ambulance comes...

Pandemic, Panic, Paranoia How To Beat It All

SHEIKH UMAR AHMAD Almost 3 months into it, we are yet to experience the worst as the cornavirus cases increase day after another. The main...

Kashmir’s students need help

FAHEEM UL ISLAM In India almost every educational institution has been closed and the government has announced online education, urging students and teachers to remain...

Conflict and education should not be mutually exclusive

SYED ZAHID History, like a mirror, shows us the scars of the wounds that we have suffered in confining education within the shackles of caste,...

The Trouble With The Economically Weaker Section (EWS) Category In Kashmir

SHAHZAD HUSSAIN To bring historically marginalised communities at par with other communities, the Constitution of India provides for affirmative action in the form of reservation...

China emerges from coronavirus as the world leader

SYED SUHAIL YAQOOB Can Covid-19 change the world order in China’s favour? The answer cannot be but yes. Three things are needed by a country...

Kashmir must not panic, for now

ABRAR A MATTOO The novel coronavirus is not a laughing matter, and if you come across someone who thinks that it is, pinch him awake,...

Psychological Impact and Role of Mental Health during Epidemics

DR AJAZ AHMAD SUHAFF We are continuously being tested by the unpredictable powers of nature. New threats to human health emerge often without warning in...

The Invisible Influence On Us

MOHAMMAD IMRAN What a life we would have if only we were left to do as we pleased! But as we grow up, all of...

Hanging of Nirbhaya’s rapists is justice true and fair

NOOR UL SHAHBAZ A crime violates the laws of society and heinous crimes like rape and murder violate not only laws but the moral foundations...

Plantation forests help us preserve natural forests

MANZOOR WANI On December 30, 2019, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar, released the biennial “India State of Forest Report (ISFR)”...

Islam and Environment Conservation

MUHEEB AHAD Islam embraces every single issue human beings face on earth. Environment protection is an important facet of Islam. Being custodians of the earth,...

Corona paranoia: Some practical advice on how to be calm and carry on

DANISH HAMEED If you are not already in a region where the novel coronavirus has appeared, be rest assured it will; and no amount of...

Political Opportunism in Kashmir

DR TAWSEEF AHMAD KHAN Politics in Kashmir has a unique attribute of being highly unpredictable and volatile, sometimes for the common man and sometimes for...

Racism against northeast in the name of coronavirus in India

AAMIR ALTAF India with a population of 1,210,193,422, as accounted by the March 2011 population census, is a unique assimilation of ethnic groups of varied...

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