OP-ED

Enam  Lone As a society, we, nowadays, are plagued with many a menace. And for every single one of them, we have been having elaborate...

Muhammad Maroof Shah  has been a growing presence of Islamic seminaries in the Valley catering to preserving and development of Islamic heritage. Historical role and...

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...

Muhammad Maroof Shah Many Muslim nations have been burning in the name of Islam. There is still a debate in Pakistan, almost seven decades after...

Enam Lone Think of human rights in general and democratic rights in particular, freedom of expression is among the foremost things that come to mind....

Shams Irfan A few days back I was watching a documentary on Discovery channel about Europe’s transition post World War II. The focus of the...

by Mir Liyaqat Nazir Brought up in the trilingual and tri-cultural environment, the late celebrated poet of the valley, Agha Shahid Ali remains Kashmiri to...

Mehraj ud din History is a constant struggle of ideologies and narratives levying insurmountable conscientiousness on their architects. The indispensability of every society revolves round...

Enam Lone Sometime back, I remember having had a chance to watch this renowned counsellor from India speak at IMPA. She had a distinct charm...

Is the Spilit Spiral only way out? Fresh Hurriyat splinter Chief and a veteran separatist Shabir Ahmed Shah while addressing a seminar proclaimed that there...

Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures. True. But it is the extraordinary people who actually create nations out of aspirations and revolutions. However, in Kashmir context,...

ENAM LONE As we seem to plunge further and further into the dark and hopeless abyss of corruption, with scandals and scams of frightening magnitude...

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...

Muhammad Maroof Shah One might be excused a remark that there is hardly any culture for art in Kashmir. Leaving aside mass ignorance regarding such...

Tufail Mehraj The snow that draped the valley white on the last day of 2013 reflected a stark reality of destitution. Historians argue that this...