Nadeem Khurshidi ’Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world Hamlet Trump is trumped, Johnson is jolted, and Macron is mortified. The coronavirus has caught all leaders unawares and has ripped through institutions, societies and systems alike. India and Pakistan like every other […]
Naveed Ahmad Mir Kashmir is one of the most militarised places on earth. Violation of human rights is the everyday business of the state. People in this part of the world face humiliation, threats, intimidation, and violation of human dignity on daily basis at the hands of the state. The forms of violence may have […]
Zahid Mushtaq As we emerge from a severe winter in Kashmir, we move into yet another symbolic winter in the middle of April, with an invisible enemy threatening to turn us cold. Such a so-called spring was long ago described by Eliot in his poem ‘The Waste Land’ as: ‘April is the cruellest month, breeding […]
Irfan ul Haq Covid-19 can prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the back of the global liberal economy. Since it exploded in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province of China, the infection has swiftly spread and engulfed the whole planet. The reason of its very acceleration is human hyper-interconnectivity on a global […]
Alexa, what is comedy? The quality of being amusing or making people laugh… Thank you, Alexa. Where can I find this comedy? Everywhere you look. Or just turn on your TV, sir! The old man began surfing through the TV channels. On channel 456 he found a group of people sitting around a table screaming […]
Manzoor Ahmad Rather Pakistan or The Partition of India’ is the title of Volume 8 of ‘Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches’. Dr Ambedkar in his introductory note wrote, “I have not sought to impose my views on the reader. I have placed before him both sides of the question and have left him to […]
Sayiqa Haidar Kashmir is at once known for her incredible natural beauty and endless conflict and violence. Between these two big pictures, the sad situation of students in Kashmir is hidden. Here I am going to tell you about the agony of a long-suffering batch of students among whom I am one. In September 2014, […]
Bilal Ahmad Dar People living near the Line of Control (LoC) are also living in the line of fire. These dwellers are for the most part powerless, with little control over their life and surroundings, and are extremely vulnerable to both physical and psychological injury. While the whole world is grappling with the lethal coronavirus, […]
The moon of Kashmiri Pandits surely has blood clots on it, but that of Kashmiri Muslims is drenched in blood. Asif Khan & Arbeena With his latest film, Shikara, Vidhu Vinod Chopra has tried to revisit his motherland through the medium of cinema. The saga of a Kashmiri Pandit couple’s love during the calamitous times […]
Dandelion, despite its health benefits, has been reduced to a poor man’s plate Aarif Maqbool Common name: Dandelion Kashmiri: Handd Botanical name: Taraxacum officinale Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family) Dandelion is a perennial plant growing almost everywhere, which can reach 38 cm in height. This plant has only basal leaves. Each leaf is toothed or lobed. […]