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Sunday, December 8, 2024

The Straight Curve

Fearing the Calendar

Arshid Malik As the year 2015 slipped into 2016, around midnight I was minutely observing the ornamented traditional Kashmiri hookah or “Jejeer” sitting atop my...

Who needs VDCs?

Arshid Malik The establishment seems to be receiving a dose of its own of medicine. I am talking about Village Defence Committees. Well, you had...

Intimacy or Ineptitude

Arshid Malik In a statement released to the press a few days ago, Hurriyat Conference (G) Supremo, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has alleged that the...

A Schemed Failure

Arshid Malik  It was the summer of ’94. I was sweating profusely; thinking hard. I had decided to kill myself. The decision was binding since...

A “utilitarian” pogrom

Arshid Malik Hindu India is on a mobile rampage, lynching poor people to death every other day. Zahid, the truck driver from Islamabad district of...

Myopic Gestures

Arshid Malik It is perhaps the worst case of social myopia that I have witnessed all my life. The case is that of the intellectual...

Ill-coming Modi

Arshid Malik Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, is slated to visit Kashmir valley on the 7th day of November and I guess it calls for...

A “utilitarian” pogrom

Arshid Malik Hindu India is on a mobile rampage, lynching poor people to death every other day. Zahid, the truck driver from Islamabad district of...

Chaotic Rhythms

Arshid Malik  Kashmir conflict is a dangerous mix of political, geographic, religious and economic factors effectuating an interplay of a multitude of actors, some of...

Getting Beefy

Arshid Malik Hurrah! We have come a long way from home. The four legged bovine has metamorphosed into a catastrophe and all this in a...

A Battle Lost

Arshid Malik On the auspicious occasion of Eid-ul-Adha, a woman in downtown area of Srinagar City set herself ablaze after her husband and in-laws allegedly...

“Messopotamia”

Arshid Malik The stipulation for a peaceful Kashmir is far from meeting the basic requirements, which in other words means that the Valley is in...

Who “killed” Aylan 

Arshid Malik Aylan Kurdi, a 3-year-old refugee from war-torn Syria was supposed to land in Europe; instead the journey claimed his life. He drowned after...

The Lost Halos

Arshid Malik September 7, 2014. Muddy water gushed into almost every house in Srinagar city, especially the low-lying areas as also other parts of Kashmir,...

Two Minutes Please

Arshid Malik The top instant noodle of the country is in hot waters. High levels of lead have “lead” to the dread that has made...