Blood on the Bridge
It was cold as stone in Srinagar. January is a numbing period in the hills. Kids often get frostbites. Many grown-up men and women...
Uses and Abuses of Fatwas
Mohammad Maroof Shah
Faqeehae harm sae mey ka jawaz kya poochae
Ye loag chandni ko bi haram kahtae haein -Faiz
(Why ask a jurist fatwa on permissibility...
Whining won’t make you shining
Tarique A BhatThe destructiveness of Kashmir conflict is reality for our younger generation. And for thousands of families. And, in fact, for millions of...
Jama’at-e-Islami and election history
Gowhar Geelani
Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) — a cadre based socio-politico-religious organization in Jammu & Kashmir — has finally decided to stay away from the election process....
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...
New Alignment!
Khursheed Wani
On November 25, about two months after Syed Ali Geelani turned 86, an exceptional gift was offered to him by a bevy of...
Lost Legacy
Mehraj ud din
Kashmir was and is equally conscious of its place in global Muslim Ummah. The fragrance of Islam has intertwined Kashmiri people around...
Corrupted governance
Showkat Ahmad
Corruption and red-tape are the biggest hurdles to the development of various states in India, especially J&K, where the state of political affairs...
Faceless Souls
Enam Lone
A couple of weeks ago, on a sunny Monday morning, I was just going through that day’s newspaper while I sat sandwiched between...
Policing The Teachers
Ahmad Riyaz
In the past three weeks, state government has booked two teachers for allegedly breaching the academic norms in setting two examination papers. One, a Gandhi College lecturer Noor Mohammad Bhat was arrested for drawing up an anti-establishment paper.
In the past three weeks, state government has booked two teachers for allegedly breaching the academic norms in setting two examination papers. One, a Gandhi College lecturer Noor Mohammad Bhat was arrested for drawing up an anti-establishment paper.
Preserving Words
MEHRAJ DIN
Knowledge is the threshold of progress in every civilization quintessentially advancing it beyond boundaries. Narratives and stories of those who came before us...
Theory of Prototypes and Archetypes
Mehboob Makhdoomi
With New Delhi’s Machiavellian reaction to the Muslim United Front’s endeavour to use democratic institutions of India for the resolution of Kashmir quagmire...
Challenges Ahead
Javeed AhmadKashmir is a long-pending dispute - the assertion found its way into President Obama’s recent public pronouncements in New Delhi. The statement lit-up...
Going Berserk
Mohammad Ahseem
The debate generated over the arrest of a Kashmir University student recently attains meaning only when perceived in its proper context. Divorcing the...
