The Web Abuse
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elations where people are not actually present but communicate or exclusively interact using internet, cell phones or other communication modes are termed as virtual...
Turning a Blind Eye
DR. BASHIR A DABLA
The fact stands with a lot of evidence that the phenomenon of disability was expanding in Kashmir and has reached to...
Remembering Bijbhera
The 1993 massacre by Border Security Forces in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara town where more than 35 civilians were killed and unknown number injured is...
Debating Islamic Legal Theory
Islamic legal theory is a dynamic and vast subject in the realm of Islamic studies. It has originated due to certain divinely ordained contents...
Caring For Elderly
by Adfar Shah
Yet another International Day of Older Persons passed unobserved. The state of the elderly in the valley reflects the declining societal response...
Political Vacillation
The politics in Kashmir valley reminds of a beautiful joke which I had once quoted in these pages. Swami Agnivesh may not like to...
Falling Standards
Ideally, education in all its manifestations should be an emancipator; a force within the educated that would liberate them from evils like hypocrisy and...
The Peace fa?ade
Jehangir Ali
A loyal, unnamed Quaestor in the great Roman emperor Hadrian’s army, who built the city of Hadrianopolis (now Adrianopolis), had his eyes gouged...
A Clutter of Political Elite
Dr. Bashir A Dabla
The idea that, for much of the recorded history, ‘the few have ruled the many’ was introduced by two Italian sociologists,...
Tailored Democracy
Democracy while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy’ says, John Adams. He further notes ‘democracy never lasts long. It soon...
Stellar Coincidence
Jehangir Ali
It appears like a stellar stroke of some kind. All agencies that make J&K’s powerful and elaborate security grid have recently landed in...
Zero Action On Zero Tolerance
Gowhar Geelani
All this talk about reducing footprints of the armed forces in the Kashmir Valley has become too redundant, and hence almost futile. On...
Dejavu
Mohammed Ahseem
The debate over AFSPA seems to have lost its heat, however the acts of killing innocent Kashmiris are hot as ever. In yet...
Missing Narratives
Arshid Malik
A lot has been written and reported about Kashmir in the past couple of decades ranging from thesis about the genesis of the...
Baby’s Health Out!
Bashir Mir
The healthcare scenario in Kashmir does not exude much confidence either in the patients or the medical fraternity itself. From primary to tertiary...
