‘Have trained over 20,000 women in last 8 years’ Srinagar, Jan 20: Breaking the stereotype, Aaliya Farooq from the downtown area of Srinagar is creating ripples with her gym centre where she had trained over 20 thousand women in the last 8 years reported news agency KNO. Aaliya, a resident of Khanyar is giving a […]
Q. What does food mean to you? Is it only a word or a feeling? A. Food is fuel for the body. It’s necessary and inescapable component of Life. Food is history, identity, sovereignty, culture, belonging, resistance, health, nourishment, love. And so much more. Food is Zero Miles to me and it’s close to […]
Countdown for street malevolency, Will conformist rightist cross the Rubicon? A.A. Latief U Zaman Deva In the checkered history of the Greater sub-continent the religious Parties/ movements have all along been the principal instruments for stability and fostering of majoritarian nationalism in respective countries.Ashin Wirathu, the anti-muslim monk in Myanmar spearheading ”969 Movement” & ”Bodu […]
Delinking Jobs from degrees Mohammad Hussain Khan It is really sad that even today our system of education operates on unsatisfactory lines. It is obsolete and has not got rid of outmoded hangover. Many commissions have been appointed, committees organized, conferences held but despite their loud recommendations, sagacious suggestions and wise policies, nothing much seems […]
WHAT? INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE OR INTERRELATED FORGIVENESS? “The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That’s what the forgiving God does.”~Miroslav Volf The Oxford Dictionary defines forgiveness […]
Have the Despots moreover Cowards ever been even celebrated? Latief-u-Zaman Deva Despotic realms including their abhorrent Great Helmsmen as reminiscent of past are alluded to in politico-societal discourses in civilised Countries for reiterating & furthering the pledges to their respective national heroes to strengthen the democracy as a political creed but a singular departure is […]
RISING SUICIDAL TENDENCIES IN KASHMIRI YOUTH. The Oxford dictionary defines suicide as following: The action of killing oneself intentionally.Under this definition, it may not be accepted to say that rather than killing oneself intentionally, it should have been killing oneself unintentionally. Though there are certain cases, where even no intentions are involved. It’s about managing […]
Official Languages Policy & its fallout Latief u zaman Deva Addition of precisely & actually 03 more languages to the 01+01 official languages in J&K, the latter having been on the analogy of the position at national level excepting Urdu swapping Hindi, aims at pampering the ultra chauvinists from a particular ethnic & linguistic community […]
DAUGHTER: NOT A BURDEN NEITHER A CURSE Before Islam, arabs used to kill their daughters and the birth of a girl was considered as a curse. It was tradition to bury the newborn girls alive. “When news is brought to one of them, of(the birth) of a female (child), his face darkens, and he is […]
This piece of land that we call Kashmir is the most beautiful part of this world. It has great potential to attract tourists across the globe. But the only problem with it is political instability which doesn’t allow the tourism sector to flourish properly. Despite this, it witnesses a great rush every year with the […]
