Asmat Jan Lord Byron’s ‘Turkish Tales’ comprise The Giaour (1813), The Bride of Abydos (1813), The Corsair (1814), and The Siege of Corinth (1816). These works “stand out for their rich Oriental content and context, [and in] their cross-cultural empathy”. In them, one finds “positive Orientalism”, and hence they represent, in the lexis of Professor […]
Mubashir Iqbal Kitaba & Amir Reyaz Sheikh Abrar Reyaz, a young and dynamic friend of ours was seriously injured a few days ago while travelling in a car along with his father and uncle. The three were near Pampore when their car collided with a tipper. Abrar’s uncle died on way to hospital, his father […]
Saiqa Jan The world has seen nothing like the Covid-19 pandemic before. It has so affected our psychological state that we are now obsessed with it. We keep looking up the data regarding patients infected and dead because of Covid-19. A sword seems to be hanging over our heads and we have become like puppets […]
NK Wani Life in a village is both a blessing and a curse. Blessing, in terms of the age-old communal bond that people share on every occasion; the textbook ideas of ‘brotherhood’ and ‘fraternity’ are essentially practised in these remote and far-off villages, far from the maddening crowds of cities where such words have been […]
Zahid Mushtaq One of our deepest longings – deeper than we recognise – is that other people should acknowledge our feelings. We want, at key moments, for our sufferings to be understood, our anxieties and sadness to be given legitimacy. There is a hunger for us to be heard. There is a need for our […]
Shahzad Hussain C.N Adichie published this book-length essay in 2014. Adichie is a Nigerain novelist and short-story writer. Her parents held academic positions at the University of Nigeria. She did her schooling and college in her home country and later went to USA for higher education. So her writings have influence of both the experiences […]
Sahil Bhat The exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in the early ’90s from Kashmir has been a subject of conflicting narratives. Some blame Jagmohan, the then Governor, while others blame Kashmiri Muslims. The latest intervention in this debate is in the form of Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s movie Shikara, the love story of a Kashmiri Pandit couple […]
The Bachelor of Fisheries Science (B.F.Sc) degree programme, a 4-year ICAR recognised professional degree programme, offered by state and central agriculture universities, is the only Bachelor-level degree programme approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in the field of fisheries science. The programme is accredited by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). More than […]
FAISAL BANDAY “Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.” – Sir William Osler (19th Century Infectious Disease Specialist) Almost a century after the brutal Spanish Flu pandemic (1918-1920), we are facing yet again, as Sir William Osler puts it, […]
The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevance, either to the Palestinian people or to Abbas’ former benefactors, namely the Israeli and the American governments. So, when the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, announced on […]