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Friday, May 17, 2024
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This column features the opinions of individuals who are not part of our newsroom

I and the Flood! Part: III

Irtif Lone Indeed, the other name for life is resilience. It is the resilience of a seed that lets it grow into a beautiful flower,...

Conversion chaos!

Mohammad Ahmad And they will not cease fighting with you until they turn you back from your religion if they can. And whoever of you...

“Target Gender”

Aiman Nazir Banday Being a student, I am every day subjected to the grime of the road. Every day I have to board a bus...

Hospital Dairies

Irtif Lone No, I am not a doctor. I am just an attendant, who has spent the last week in this hospital. And, in fact...

Crumbling Social Order

Irtif Lone I am not sure how far defining Kashmir as “Peer Waer” is justified, but as long as I can remember I have always...

Kehwa Scandal!

Irtif Lone As if the tragedies in Kashmir were not enough, there was this latest ‘Kehwa’ scandal.  Kehwa which otherwise is a delicacy relished by...

The game

S. RehmanKilling and getting killed, killing and being prosecuted, killing and getting immunity, killing and being protected, killing and being rewarded. The horrid business...

Apparent Impunity

Sameer YasirTwo days after three young men Shazad Khan, Shafi Lone and Riyaz Lone from the Nadihal village were brutally murdered in a fake...

Speak out your heart

Tarique A BhatOpinions can’t be heard if we don’t express them. Recently cricket world cup ended and twenty-twenty fever is still high. I am...

Landscape of Stress

Ihsan Malik The seemingly interminable ferment that Kashmir has been enduring for the last two decades has, without doubt, had an extremely pernicious effect on...

Picture of the week

Photograph by: Irfan Rafiq Am i Supposed to drive or reply a quick text I got on my cell phone.

Kashmir’s Lalajis

Sameer YasirIn his own brilliant style Shekhar Gupta once wrote that in his post-politics life, Swami Agnivesh may not like to be reminded of...

Padmavat: A Reality or Fiction

by Sumera Reshi After much hullabaloo, Padmavati was released on January 25, 2018. The film tells the story of a 14th-century Hindu queen and a...

Laboratory in Entrepreneurial Motivation

Irtif Lone In an elegantly designed conference hall the door was making rusty noise, the noise which every door hinge makes to get oiled. Every...

The less equals!

Irtif Lone In George Orwell book Animal Farm when all the animals get together and revolt against Mr. Jones, they adopt seven commandments of Animalism,...