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Discourse

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

Billboard Blight in Srinagar

Tarique A Bhat The mercantile society that destroys all human relationships, professional relationships, health, the environment is trying to get rid of Billboard blight....

Manage This Happy Horror

Grades in examinations are no sure indicator of a student’s efficiency and capacity. For most of the higher studies institutions go for a separate...

Hopelessly Precarious

By Khursheed Wani Kashmir is going through one of the most critical periods of history. The actors on the stage read ‘stakeholders’, are busy in...
Scores of helicopter sorties roved over Uri on September 18, 2016 following the militant attack. (KL Image: Bilal Bahadur)

War is no sport

We have done things that often come back to haunt us, TV personality Farrukh Khan Pitafi writes in The Express Tribune You wake up one...

A Gasping Gulmarg

By Khursheed Wani Gulmarg’s tryst with travelers is historic. From the British officers of the Rawalpindi and Quetta garrisons to the Nawabs of undivided Punjab...

Mehbooba: Change or Surrender

By Tasavur Mushtaq Mehbooba Mufti’s drive to Bijbehara today to pay homage to her father Mufti Muhammad Sayeed wasn’t a routine travel. The scenario when...

Stop This Blame Game

by Khursheed Wani The functioning of private educational institutions is in sharp focus. On September 15, authorities suspended the re-registration of a branch of a...

My grandpa’s fault!

Shazia Yousuf

It was the biggest room of our house, but I never had enough chance to sit and monitor it. Meant for guests of my grandfather it was always clean and well furnished. The picture of this room in my mind is based more on imagination than reality.  I never identified this room with my house because it was less used for family affairs and more for political discourses.

1947: How Delhi Provoked Tribal Invasion In Kashmir

By Mehboob Makhdoomi October reminds us of the October of 1947, which is usually remembered for the entry of Indian forces in Kashmir on its 27th day...

Winter’s Tale

by Shams Irfan As the season’s first snowfall carpets the vale under a white blanket, a sight that has once inspired poets and kings alike, Kashmir...

She deserves graceful commuting

by Shazia Yousuf When you get in, they are damp with summer perspiration. When you sit in, the sticky dirt steals your morning freshness. Its...
Youth of Shopian engaged in a ding dong battle with para military forces.

Murder, Vicious and Wanton

Muhammad Shafi Khan Shoot, after all, We are only an inconvenience of a few lakh souls. So, we go ahead, shoot, blast us to eternity... Wipe us out...

Liberating Learning

As the Sun had its last loveliest smile, winter, the loneliest season of the year has already begun. With almost every facet of life...

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,...
Voters after their votes in South Kashmir.

South Kashmir 3.1

by Sheikh Mushtaq Last week, strife-weary residents emerged in nervous trickles to cast their votes at highly guarded polling booths in few parts of south...