The Straight Curve

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...

Arshid Malik The people of Kashmir have nerves of steel – this is a sentence that pops up in my head whenever I relapse into...

Arshid Malik Picture an executive or a government official or a lawyer or for that particular matter anyone with a decent job and a handsome...

Arshid Malik It was a moonless night. I was supposed to be tucked away underneath a blanket on that cold winter evening, reading a book...

Arshid Malik I am hit: It was Tuesday and the year I guess was 1993. Around 2 in the afternoon we finished our classes and...

Arshid Malik It has been quite a stigmatizing streak for me; five years in a row and I have not had tasted “Wazwaan” once. Even...

Arshid Malik I am quite amused by the term “Bihari” which has turned almost generic for every individual who comes down to Kashmir from the...

Arshid Malik I believe humility, compassion and honesty to be three of the greatest human virtues. If these three precepts of human civilization are to...

Arshid Malik Back home, when we were kids, grown up cousins and all would narrate spine-chilling ghost stories to us. Some of these stories would...

Arshid Malik The other day, a poor guy  was robbed. He works in my office as a driver. We had parked my car just outside...

Arshid Malik Human culture is very much like Matryokshka dolls commonly referred to as Russian nesting dolls. There is always a larger, broader and identifiable...