Being Devil’s Advocate
Naeem AkhtarThe decision of Sajjad Lone to revert his party to electoral politics has obviously generated some debate. Some cynics read it as the...
Muzamil Jaleel
Prominent Kashmiri journalist, Muzamil Jaleel, was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award
Are We Educated Enough!
by Arshad Malik
Erudition in terms of education is the primary construct for a growth-oriented and progressive society and humans turn out to be...
Aid its prevention
Much has been written on AIDS as a disease; its life threatening nature, its transmission and its spread.
India’s choices
Whole of Sinai Peninsula was occupied by Israel and all of Soviet made armor and hardware rendered useless. Egypt retaliated in 1971 but failed...
From the ‘Zero Bridge’
A Kashmiri-American director shot his film ‘Zero Bridge’ in Kashmir that tells the story of common people in Kashmir. Nafeesa Syeed interacts with the...
J&K has Rs 30,000 Cr with Banks
Banks operating across J&K have advanced Rs 2,537 Cr (Rs 1200 cr in Kashmir, Rs 1277 cr in Jammu and Rs 60 cr in...
Recession blues: unrest ahead
Global Recession has not spared Kashmir in spite of its isolation, but experts say the real impact is still in offing. Some two to...
Floating in turbulence
Mushtaq A Punjabi
The world is under heat of recession that has affected almost all the big economies; slightly or considerably. Our valley is...
Sucking the disease out
An age-old method of cure by sucking impure blood, leech therapy has now entered medical textbooks. Hospitals in Kashmir too use this method for...
Saving Dal Lake
Over the years, people in general and Kashmir media in particular have debated the future of Dal lake thread bare. The regulating authority however...
Kashmir: HIV Enters Schools
The growing incidence of HIV infection in J&K has been an open secret for some time, but now the monster has extended its reach...
Remembering Iqbal: beyond the rhetoric
Zamir Ahmed
Iqbal Bhi Iqbal se Aagaah nahi hai,
Iqbal Bhi Iqbal se Aagaah nahi hai,
Mapping the Edges
Time and again, ours may be considered activism of extreme frustrations. The feeling that our younger generations from yore have come forward to change a situation, but had no idea of what and how to do so, has seemingly become our destiny.
Tragedies in our history are repeated, because we don’t learn from our mistakes. Empires grow, weaken and die for the same reasons. So, before going further on the repetition course, let’s take a timeout for reflection on our repeated mistakes.
Last week Kashmiri narratives and role of civil society was debated in some public functions. The only emotion that is specifically exhibited is anger. Most anger displays are not pure anger, but anger alloyed with other emotions, such as disgust. We seem to assume that anger is a simple and unitary emotion, and give only brief hints about managing it.
Tragedies in our history are repeated, because we don’t learn from our mistakes. Empires grow, weaken and die for the same reasons. So, before going further on the repetition course, let’s take a timeout for reflection on our repeated mistakes.
Last week Kashmiri narratives and role of civil society was debated in some public functions. The only emotion that is specifically exhibited is anger. Most anger displays are not pure anger, but anger alloyed with other emotions, such as disgust. We seem to assume that anger is a simple and unitary emotion, and give only brief hints about managing it.
Mild campaign marks Islamabad
The mood of the electorate can well be gauged from their participation in election rallies, which until now has remained thin. There is every...
