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This column features the opinions of individuals who are not part of our newsroom

At the end of the road

Arshid MalikThere is a wide, very wide hiatus between the East and the West. Certain differences are well spoken for, while others have never...

Idiosyncratic eccentricities

Arshid MalikThis era is like an era of personal and interpersonal crisis with the greatest hit taken by the most essential resource that is...

Out of rhyme but not reason

Arshid Malik Kashmir valley and its people have been going through difficult times for long now. Our society altogether is not doing well, even...

Of childhoods dreams and nightmares

Arshid Malik Our childhood days were so full of fun (I am talking about the generation which was born around the 70s and 80s). There...

Making Srinagar the heritage city

Tarique A BhatWe may not belong to our own tremendous past, but certainly that belongs to us. We take our enviable heritage wherever we...

It is the heat

Arshid Malik   I love children and like to spend time with them. Whenever I am with children I try to look at things through...

Political demurrage and the way ahead

Arshid Malik The uproar and commotion that marked the latest sessions of the State Legislative Assembly is a blotch on the face of politics in...

“Whose line is this anyway”

Arshid Malik Even though it has been proposed and propagated all along that Kashmir is a patriarchal society, I do not subscribe to the view...

What is wrong with us is not wrong at all!

Arshid Malik Anger is a strong word. It is so very forthcoming and resilient. Like all emotions it is rooted in the human mind...

Hot heads & cold hearts

Tarique A Bhat  No recent or ongoing unrest in North, South and Central Kashmir has received much attention in the media outside Kashmir. Why...

Freedom, revolution and the missing links

Arshid Malik The lanes and by-lanes of Kashmir have gained a reddish hue as blood and gut has been spilled incessantly in these streets...

I think I should get a life!!!

Arshid Malik I am a nocturnal person by nature. Ever since I was a kid I used to keep awake through the nights which...

Worker ants, multi-tasking and my broken TV

Arshid Malik Ha! Ha! I had the laugh of my life when I found out that none of us, in the family, could find...

Building up a catastrophe

Arshid Malik Last year, a friend of mine asked me to visit a piece of land he had purchased in Srinagar city. We settled...

Much Ado About Nothing

by Arshad Malik Yesterday evening, I went shopping only to find myself burdened with the goods I had purchased as the shopkeepers would not give...