Kashmir Life
Why Do We Need To Think About Cyber Security More During The Pandemic?
by Yasir Altaf Zargar
With the outbreak of Covid-19 causing an unprecedented global halt, billions of people across the globe have been sent to self-isolation...
Residency To Reservations
After being legally protected for 108 years, Kashmiris find themselves out in the open as reservation rules replace Residency rights. Haseeb A Drabu analyses the legal,...
Why Students Can Never Recover The Time They Are Losing?
by Saifullah Bashir.
On one or the other pretext Kashmir witnesses’ disturbances, almost every year. Caught in the conflict since1947, the subsequent developments in the...
Lift The Lockdown
by Reyaz Wani
Kashmir has been under an uninterrupted lockdown since the withdrawal of Article 370 in August 2019. Though there was a partial relaxation...
Briefing May 24 – May 30, 2020
ANANTNAG
With schools shut, the suspension of non-performing teachers also came to a halt but last week Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon, the principal secretary school...
Epidemic Killed Indus Valley Civilization?
Researchers have not been able to locate a single major factor for the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization other than waterborne disease. Cholera, David...
Why Not Study Data, Machine Learning, or Artificial Intelligence?
by Javaid Iqbal
Learning outcomes for graduates in Kashmir is intractable low. Quality concerns around education are seldom seen as a political priority, too many...
Why Our Education System Must Change?
by Javaid Iqbal
In ancient Greek mythology, Sisyphus as punishment was condemned to push a rock up the hills until eternity. The moment he reached...
Zakat Corpus
A chain of NGOs and social groups are managing the destitute and the underprivileged across Kashmir. But the mangers of these groups insist that...
Briefing May 17 – May 23, 2020
PULWAMA
Lives of politicians have twists and turns but usually, death is always expected to be dignified. In Kashmir, however, there are always exceptions. A...
A Pandemic, A Lesson
Slovenian philosopher sees the Covid-19 pandemic as an intellectual malaise that has exposed “the ultimate abyss of our being” and its remedy lies in...
5 Stages of Epidemic
by Slavoj Zizek
Maybe we can learn something about our reactions to the Coronavirus epidemics from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who, in her On Death and Dying,...
How National Security Eclipses The Fundamental Rights?
by Abrar Reyaz
On Monday, April 11, the Supreme Court of India reserved orders (when this column was being written), while hearing a bunch of...
Briefing May 8 – May 14
MOHALI
As all the borders have been sealed to stop any kind of movement to halt the spreading virus, last week Punjab administration won rounds...
Pulitzer, Finally
Kashmir media has been a harried lot throughout. As the pressures mounted in recent days with cases under harsh laws being registered against them,...
