Smouldering South
Every time, the situation shows a semblance of normality, something untoward happens and kicks things back to square one. By and large, official machinery...
Revive Art Forms
Keeping aside the discourse created against the conduct of Bavarain music concert by Zubin Mehta in Shalimar garden and the stubbornness of the organizers...
Strings Attached
Music like other forms of art is the conscious and creative expression of human skills. Music exploits the vocal and instrumental sounds to appeal...
Clean Up
Despite controversial claims made by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde that militants are planning to attack pilgrims during annual Amarnath yatra everything went smoothly...
Unable to Act
Every time things go wrong in Kashmir the young and dynamic chief minister of the state looks helplessly towards New Delhi for solution and...
Stop Selling Orphan
We are known by the words we keep our association with. Words not only represent us but these depict our inner selves. Experimental evidence...
Holy Loot
Unlike other Muslim majority states across the world where Ramadan is celebrated as a month of charity and goodness, Kashmiris (read businessmen) go out...
Loosening Bond
Gone are the days when horizons would mourn and heavens would shed tears over innocent killings in Kashmir. In those days of compassion, murders,...
Caged AGAIN
The idea of justice has changed entirely in last two decades of conflict in Kashmir as the finger of blame is always pointed at...
Ramzan Mandate
Long days and soaring mercury make the Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting, a really challenging duty for the faithful. Dizziness, lightheadedness, headaches, intense...
Apercieve & Preserve
Yet another harrowing incident of cold blooded murder; the life of two youth in Markundal village of Bandipora was as ordinary as those of...
Salman Sayings
Congress’s state president Prof Saif ud Din Soz deserves credit for getting the foreign minister to Srinagar and encouraging him to talk as much...
Yatra Threat!
Once again there seems to be a heightened buildup around the annual Yatra to Amarnath. This time the issue of security of the pilgrims...
Resurgence?
While acknowledging the fact that many educated youth of valley are resorting to violence by taking to arms, chief minister, Omar Abdullah’s recent statement...
Political corruption
In developing nations corruption and corrupt practices flow down from political system to other institutions of governance. It works much like a food-chain pyramid...
