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Sunday, March 24, 2024
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The Straight Curve

An economic apocalypse

Arshid MalikWhat’s with the prices? They keep skyrocketing all the time. There is no stopping them. Alas! The incomes hardly crawl up. As times...

Plasticized! Perhaps!

Arshid MalikI was a regular subscriber to Reader’s Digestas a kid. It carried all kinds of real life stories about adventures and misadventures of...

Infested!

Arshid Malik I have always dreaded creepy-crawly insects and for reasons I don’t know. On a psychoanalytic plane my best guess for this fear...

Encapsulated exemption

Arshid MalikI was lucky to be outside Kashmir when Salman Khan starrer “Dabaang” was released for it was a movie worthy of being watched...

The circles of life

Arshid MalikWhen we were kids, we were just that, kids. What else could we be, when the creator had bestowed upon us such a...

Shimmers and shadows

Arshid MalikIndia has come up as one of the faster developing countries as of late, pitching equally in the global arms race. That’s why...

Life and lies

Arshid MalikI am a keen traveller although life has provided me little time and scope to travel. All the same, I still enjoy travelling...

Blood the colour of thought

Arshid MalikI was always an ardent lover of books. What kind, you may ask and I would say all kinds. By all kinds I...

Of discovering geniuses

Arshid MalikRecently I chanced upon a talk delivered by a famous educationist regarding the creativity hidden inside children and factors that kill it. The...

Of last rites and lost rights

Arshid MalikI landed in Kashmir a few days ago and the first news that I met with was the murder of a youth in...

Shape of things to come

Arshid Malik “Crackdowns” were phenomenally common in the post 89 chapter in Kashmir. Free word associations I can draw at the very mention of...

Press “DELETE”

Arshid Malik Some eight or nine odd years ago I along with some of my friends decided to go for an adventure trip. It was...

“Autonomy in a cone”

Arshid MalikJust outside our rented apartment in Jammu, a young boy sells ice cream. The presence of his ice cream tricycle is made conspicuous...

The art of doing it

Arshid MalikGiven the fact that I was a bright child and always excelled in studies, I actually never paid enough heed to my school...

Patch Adams and a sick me

Arshid MalikMunnabhai M.B.B.S. was a major Bollywood flick that swept the Indian cinema buffs off their feet in December 2003. It was the element...