The age of IVRs
Arshid MalikIt is the omen – the omen of an eventual takeover of the entire human civilization by fleshless, bloodless and in some cases...
Of mansions and graveyards
Arshid MalikThat Day: Saturday morning, 25th of October, 2005, a major earthquake struck the India-Pakistan border, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale and was...
We need a centrifuge
Arshid MalikKashmir is in bad need of a politico-socio-economic centrifuge; a centrifuge that would isolate causations on a classical basis. This centrifuge I am...
A sleepy village
Arshid MalikThere are some things about Kashmir and Kashmiri people that I have never been able to comprehend. For instance, I have noted all...
Identifying myself
Arshid MalikI have lost my identity card and am worried sick to the stomach. I hunted everywhere, places I had been in the past...
Aftershocks and fallouts
Arshid MalikThe latest phase of resistance in Kashmir, which lasted around five odd months, deeply altered the contours of the Kashmiri society. These alterations,...
Living out of the box
Arshid MalikThe more we advance as a people in terms of scientific knowhow and high end technology the more distant the joy of life...
Freedom and Free Trade
Arshid MalikFree Trade is the haute couture of the modern world, the catch phrase, the order of the day, but for the people of...
Adios “babugiri”
Arshid MalikA few weeks ago, while I was running an errand for my company, I was obliged to visit a central government office for...
Covering Kashmir Up
Arshid MalikKashmiri people have been betrayed once again; they have been left helpless at the mercy of the political winds, while the establishment spins...
Concertina Wires
Arshid Malik
Yesterday evening, as I was catching a nap, I had a dream. It was a very beautiful dream about gardens so lush...
Genetics of unrest
Arshid Malik Anger, best defined as a feeling of displeasure, irritation or hostility can have different dimensions with mild to violent responses. Psychological theories...
They shot you
Arshid Malik Draped in white, your head nods in agreement when the village council meets at around exact dusk, with its members kept together...
Stop looking for the rabbit hole
Arshid Malik Having undergone what could be called the most distressful of situations, courtesy, the past more than twenty years of unrest, I am...
The fall of humanity
Arshid Malik This world has truly arrived at a juncture where personal goals are all that matter; it is a personalized world for...