UMAR MAJEED KHAN Aristotle said, “Worms are the intestines of the earth”, and Charles Darwin wrote a book on worms in which he declared that there may not be any other creature that has played so important a role in the history of life on earth. Using worms to convert food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer […]
Mool Raj I would like to draw attention to some of the tourist attractions in district Doda. The Chenab Valley in Doda district has numerious scenic places where one can feel peace of mind. Among the tourist attractions are Kalhota, Dhara Top, Dedani Padri, Lal Draman, Gala Dhar, Padi Dhar Bhaderwah, Jayi Valley, Chinta, Guli […]
I never appreciated the freedom of breath that I had Until my lungs choked. I am home quarantined None but two things happen now: the day and the night Empty dark and light, they just pass, without the courtesy To ask, hello, how are you? I watch the birds fly through the window But this […]
DR ABRAR-UL HAQ WANI & DR MUZAFFAR SHAHEEN Steven Soderbergh’s movie ‘Contagion’ is now playing out in real. COVID-19 took just two months to become a crucial and scandalous part of our daily lives. The economic fallout is evident in stock market bloodbaths. What is not so evident is the way it is disrupting livelihood […]
JAHANGEER AHMAD KUMAR In the centuries between 1400 and 1800, visitors to India wrote a number of travelogues in Persian. At the same time, Indian visitors to central Asia, Iran and the Ottoman Empire also sometimes wrote about their experiences. These writers followed in the footsteps of Albiruni and Ibn Battuta. Ibn Battuta was born […]
MUDASIR KHAN There was a time when the very word used to send a chill down the spine. But the world has progressed and words are not what they used to be. In the journey of our progress, we have given to this word many other meanings. We have experimented with the word in many […]
TAWSEEF AHMAD KHAN Nations are in a state of chaos. Even after putting all their resources to use and channelising all their energies, they have failed to stop the march of the deadly coronavirus, COVID-19. The whole world seems to have been conquered and occupied by this coronavirus, which has shown that the most powerful […]
Garima Sharma From the conception of nation-building processes, borderlands have been one of the most beleaguered spaces. When borders are formed, they not only demarcate regions but a massive socio-economic aftermath follows. The haste with which India’s Partition was done, it is safe to say that a lot of it happened arbitrarily. In 1972, the […]
DAVID RUNCIMAN We keep hearing that this is a war. Is it really? What helps to give the current crisis its wartime feel is the apparent absence of normal political argument. The prime minister goes on TV to issue a sombre statement to the nation about the curtailment of our liberties and the leader of […]
In Kashmir, everybody is trying to become an expert on how to deal with this pandemic. Remember, “Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing”
G.N BHAT & DR NAWAB JAN DAR The novel coronavirus is named as SARS-CoV-2. SARS-Cov was first reported in Asia in February 2003, though cases subsequently were tracked to late 2002. SARS quickly spread to about two dozen countries before being contained after about four months. Since 2004, there have been no known SARS cases. […]