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,...
Understanding The Virus
With an estimated 100 million types and so abundant that all the life forms put together, the viruses were discovered only after the invention...
Kashmir Developments And US Policy
In anticipation of Donald Trump’s Delhi visit, Congressional Research Service (CRS), a private entity working for the US Congress on key issues, circulated a...
Witnessing The 1990 Crisis
Moosa Raza took over as Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Secretary at a time when Kashmir was changing fast. His memoir reveals newer things about...
1853: A Tourist On Foot
An unknown Englishman has penned in his peculiar language his long trek from Shimla to Srinagar via Tibet on foot in the summer of...
Mankind’s Kashmir Arrival
Kashmir is one of the few locations across South Asia that still retains tell-tale details of the pre-historic settlements starting from the Neolithic age,...
Ganais Of Lahore
In TahreekAqwam Kashmir (1934), journalist and historian Munshi Muhammad Din Fauq has provided a comprehensive survey of different social groups, tribes, and castes...
A Transitional Tale
After growing up in the shadows of the gun, journalist Gowhar Geelani details the transition that it brought in the new generation. In Rage...
Medieval Kashmir’s Historians
Kashmir boasts of more than a millennium of recorded history. In every era, somebody was writing about the individuals and the institutions of power...
Costly Land Reforms
In the history of Kashmir, land to tiller is the biggest intervention that lacks parallels. But these proved very costly for Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah,...
Whither Governance?
A young academic has revisited the state of governance in Jammu and Kashmir between 1948 and 1989 and attempted to understand how the conflict...
Juvenile Justice: A Critique
A report based on the first-hand study suggests the Jammu and Kashmir’s criminal justice system is utterly inadequate in addressing the alienation of Kashmir’s...
Srinagar Fires 1892
Kashmir was always interesting and enigmatic. Charles Adolphus Murray, the 7th Earl of Dunmore was in Srinagar in May 1892, when it went up...
Kashmir’s First Preacher
In this brief write-up, Dr Darakhshan Abdullah offers an idea about Islam’s emphasis on preaching while offering basic details about Kashmir’s first missionary preacher,...
