The Straight Curve

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...

By: Arshid Malik Ramadhan Mubarak. The blissful and holy month is here and it is time for Muslims across the world to observe fasts and...

By: Arshad Malik I still remember the day I watched the Hollywood blockbuster movie Titanic. It was an enthralling experience. This movie kicked off a...

Arshid Malik While the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the latter region especially, voted in whatever numbers for a democratically elected government they got a...

Arshid Malik Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance - Confucius. Humankind’s quest for knowledge is like a bottomless pit – there is...

Arshid MalikThe more we advance as a people in terms of scientific knowhow and high end technology the more distant the joy of life...

Arshid Malik Every element of Kashmir is laden with nostalgia. There is no moment in my years in Kashmir that do not surface as nostalgic...

By: Arshid Malik I sometimes wonder as to how the animal world perceives the growth and prosperity of the human species. Animals are animals and...

Arshid MalikFor a long time now I have been planning to hit the healthy streak. I have planned and plotted my timings and routes...

Arshid Malik “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen...

Arshid Malik “Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what...

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