The Joy of Reading Books

The Joy of Reading Books

MUBASHIR IQBAL KITABA The joy of reading books can’t be expressed in words. It is something which we can understand only by real experience. There is much more to our lives than our daily work, and the time we spent aimlessly using different things. In shaping our attitude and behavior in a positive direction books […]

Redefine Leadership in Higher Education Institutions

Redefine Leadership in Higher Education Institutions

DR. ARSHED IQBAL DAR Truth talking and beautiful doing are the fruitful traits of a triumphant administrator. The speaker of living speech takes provision from intelligence. He stirs up meaning, adorns the speech with meaning, and decorates it with truthfulness so that the listener, from tasting its meaning, may yearn for meaning’s wellspring. How can […]

On the Causal Bond between Infrastructure Investment and Development Effects

BY BINISH QADRI Econometric models(Walters, 1968)allow us to estimate the long-run relationship between variables. The elementary awareness and understanding of Vector Auto regression(VAR) causality testing is that the past can influence the present and the future or past can cause the present and the future, but not the other way round and Granger causality covers […]

How to Beat Plastic Pollution

Dr Khursheed Ahmad Wani Every plastic waste that is in my backyard is due to my own fault, whether I will quench my thirst, fill my stomach, or make myself handsome, or I prefer a convenient life is all what I will get at the end is sack of plastic waste, either in the form […]

Notes on Solitude

Notes on Solitude

Muhammed Hussain Sufi Solitude is an essence to sculpt the symmetric shape out of a regular stone you are, by removing the deformities, edges and filling the patches. It is an introspection, wherein you get a chance to have a look at your make both internally as well as externally. It is an insight about […]

On Education, Competition and Teachers

On Education, Competition and Teachers

Malik Nazir Ahmad As teachers we know about these definitions but perhaps we have forgotten the great role ordained to us. We are not free in our action but stand accountable to Almighty. We would be taken to the task on the great judgment day. We appreciate the concern of great humanists; we don’t understand […]

Greed is Destroying Kashmir’s Wetlands. It Should Alarm Us All

SHEIKH UMAR AHMAD Kashmir is gifted with immense natural resources that give it a paradise personification on earth. Being geographically small and fragile ecosystem, it balances its eco-stability through natural endowments it holds. Of late, Kashmir is marred by political and geo instability that had put its ecology at the nuke’s end. Among other natural […]

Wake Up Before It is Too Late: Notes on the Importance of Kashmir’s Deteriorating Soil Health

Dr. Tasneem Mubarak The ever expanding population and changing life styles are creating enormous demand for food, fodder, feed, fiber and fuel. To keep pace with increasing population, production must increase but not at the cost of environment and ecology. For sustainability in agriculture and allied sectors it is quite essential to maintain soil health. […]

On the Nature and Cause(s) of the Evil of Rape

AZHAR AALAM MIR Rape isn’t a new crime; it has been there since ages but was considered as a minor crime. It was in 20th century when rape was considered an atrocious crime. When we talk about rape we can’t miss the cause, that is, patriarchy whose seeds have been sown since a long ago. […]

Why Abuse Women when the Almighty Has Given Then Rights?

Mir Abas Most of the women in certain environments spend all their time in service of men especially their husbands ― making them breads, meal, chai, coffee in return they get abuse, subjugation, beating, rape insults and so on. They will rarely give them daily or monthly remuneration as prescribed by God and when do […]