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Discourse

This is a section of opinion and analysis, mostly based on the current issues.

Regressive man

Shazia Najar A little innocent soul free from all the sins of this world, she comes into the life of her parents as a blessing...
Photo: Bilal Bahadur

RTI: Power and Vulnerability

Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat writes about how the RTI Act helps expose malpractice but has not helped bring about change in the system that...

Sufism On, Extremism Gone

SHEHLA RASHID Quite a few years back, it was politically fashionable to talk about “Kashmiriyat” – the simplistic assumption that Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir...

Echo: A case study

ZUBAIR LONE In Greek and Roman mythologies, gods are the superior most divinities. Gods are followed by Nymphs. They are lesser divinities represented as young...

Kun’fayakun: Be! And it is!

Zubair LoneTo  a cosmologist, this universe is the sum total of space and content- thought to be between 10 billion and twenty billion years...

‘National Press’ Ingress

by Shujaat Bukhari The Chandigarh based leading newspaper, Tribune recently made an entry into the media market in Jammu and Kashmir by launching its “Jammu...

MAT for MBA, MFC

The University of Kashmir will not conduct any entrance for admission to MBA and MFC courses offered by it. Rather, it will shortlist students...

Obesity, the upcoming challenge

Dr Tariq MalaThe normal body mass index (BMI) of a person ranges from 18.5 to 24.9 kg per meter square, values below or above...

The Poetic Quadrate

by Zubair Lone Allama Iqbal in one of his poems “Peer o Mureed- an ideational dialogue between Maulana Rumi and Allama Iqbal” from his book...

Creating discomfort

As a day’s power cut throws life out of gear in Kashmir, Naeem Akhtar argues that people have deliberately yielded space to discomfort and...

Seminaries In Focus

Dar-ul-Ulooms and Madrassas have remained part of Kashmir’s Muslim ethos for centuries. Never ever have these institutions, preaching and teaching the faith, landed in...

Minorities Within A Minority

Dr. Bashir A DablaIn the federal political structure of India, the religious, regional, linguistic and other minorities have the constitutional status that guarantees their...

Freedom, or Waiting for Ghani in Kashmir

Prashant Keshavmurthy situates Ghani Kashmiri, the seventeenth century Persian language poet in the troubled contemporary Kashmir. What does it mean for someone today to...

Will Harud Douse The Chinars?

Arif Ayaz Parrey Trust the poet to make a prophecy. I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir, and the shadowed routine of each vein will almost be news,...

Rights of domestic child labourers

Dr. Bashir A DablaThe fact stands needs no emphasis that domestic labour (DL) stands as most suffering group among labourers. At the same time,...