If I’m asked about my booklist of the year 2020, the year hasn’t been that productive for me. Went through a very less number of books, at a very sluggish pace. Still, these books that I read last year left their imprint on me. The first book I came across 2020, in the first week […]
On 21 August 1969, an Australian-born Christian, Dennis Michael Rohan, attempted to set fire to the ancient Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The fire he ignited destroyed part of the roof and the 800-year-old pulpit of Salahuddin Ayubi, the general who liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders in the 12th century. After this incident, a former Mufti […]
Honeybee venom is a colourless, acidic liquid. Bees excrete it through their stingers into a target when they feel threatened. It contains both anti-inflammatory and inflammatory compounds, including enzymes, sugars, minerals, and amino acids. For thousands of years humans have used honey, propolis, and venom from the European honeybee Apis mellifera as medicine. More recently, […]
With the advent of winters, when extra efforts are required to avoid the worsening spiral of immobility and increasing pain, patients especially with spinal complications are at an added risk. Slipped disc is a common problem which affects approximately 1% of the population. It usually affects people between the ages of 30 and 50 years. […]
Onion is native to southwestern Asia but presently is grown throughout the world, mostly in the temperate zones.Onion is among the world’s oldest cultivated vegetable and were probably knownin India, China and the Middle-East. Ancient Egyptians regarded the spherical bulb as a symbol of the universe, and its name is derived from the Latin unus, […]
Democracy will only be strengthened by representing more groups in terms of their population and candidates who obtain more than 50% of the votes polled The ancient English, up to the days of Anglo-Saxons, protected individual rights in a limited sense till Britain was usurped following the Norman invasion of 1066, leading subsequently to the […]
Who am I, where am I, why I am here?” These questions were at a time unanswerable for me. One would certainly not deny the fact that every child has his own unique world. Children are lost in their own world, which is often far from the real world. I, too, in my childhood was […]
Education is guaranteed by the Constitution but in Kashmir it continues to sink amid political turbulence. The major stakeholders in the education system in Kashmir are private schools, which often remain in news for one or the other reason. The latest news is worrisome. When it comes to the quality of education, there is no […]
2020 set many new paradigms, which may be the norm in the coming years, too Perhaps no other year’s end has been awaited so eagerly across the world as that of 2020. That is because no other event in recent history has had such far-reaching impact as that of the coronavirus pandemic. The year 2020 […]
Colonies are not established overnight. It takes years of meticulous planning, plenty of money and muscle power. The British Raj in India began with the spice trade, the French colonisation of North America began with voyages, the Dutch began trading in Indonesia before they started interfering in Java’s internal business, Britain began controlling Africa through […]