A brain tumour is a collection, or mass of abnormal cells in the brain. Being the 10th leading cause of morbidity in India, the incidences of the deadly disease is on an exponential rise and different kinds of tumours manifest at different age groups. These tumours can be cancerous (malignant) or non-cancerous. When a benign […]
Feroz Ahmad There are widespread rumours about Covid vaccines that they will have harmful effects. It has been often heard in conversations that some people are determined to not get vaccinated even if they catch the coronavirus. People tell each other that those who have received the second dose of the vaccine have also become […]
While people suffering from Covid can lose the sense of smell and taste, touch is the sense that has been diminished for almost all of us, test-positive or not, symptomatic or not, hospitalised or not The Oxford dictionary defines touch as “an act of touching someone or something” and “the faculty of perception through physical […]
Why does the US advocate a free market while doing its utmost to stifle it? The current US-China economic war is a perfect example of this perplexing question. The legacy of Milton Friedman, the founder of America’s modern political economy, was a representation of this very dichotomy: the use, misuse and manipulation of the concept […]
Plains to Mountains (Jammu to Kishtwar): Part 2 The scenario on the other side of the Chenani-Nashri tunnel was quite different as if we had entered a new world. Fully bathed roads, fragrant soil, milky-white cumulus clouds hovering over the high mountains, dense vegetation, and clean roads with beautiful margins of Cedrus (cedars) were the […]
Surah Al-Fateh is known as the opening of the Quran. It is also known as Surah us Shifa, the healing chapter. Some exegetes of the Quran call it the Exordium of the Quran and some call it the Key of the Quran. Many other names are also in vogue; however, there is a consensus that […]
Sometimes I feel lost and other times I feel as if I have conquered the world. The tragedy in my life is not having the courage to accept things as they are. I always used to find happiness in the little things which I had but now life has changed so drastically. I am an […]
A travelling experience amid pandemic About a year has passed since I came to Jammu after the weakening of the first wave of Covid-19 and the official opening of the University of Jammu. Since my master’s, I have been frequently travelling on the Jammu-Kishtwar national highway. By the time I joined PhD it was for […]
The Muslim community stands out for its strong but thoroughly unreasonable belief in the idea of the janna’t (paradise) being exclusively reserved for them, with all other communities fated to be consigned to hellfire The present state of Muslims in India and elsewhere in the world is so beautifully captured in the following poignant words […]
The irresponsibility of adolescence and free availability of cigarettes were the reasons why I started smoking. I believe it’s just your bad luck to start it, and your greatest fortune to give it up, said a friend who finally stopped smoking after 12 years. A decade ago, it was seen as a cool thing. I […]