The message distorted

CONCEPT

Prof. Muhammad Ishaq Khan comments on the distortions of Sufism in Indian Historiography.Historical writings on Sufism in India generally bear the deep impress of the Orientalist categories of thought. The use of such expressions as “orthodox”, “official”, “popular”, “folk More

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BJP’s latest

They are against mixing politics with academics. Really!

WRITE HAND by AJAZ UL HAQUE

The recent outburst by BJP State President Ashok Khajuria was nothing surprising. What better can be expected of such frenzied minds than this. They normally do the damage to the cause they claim to serve. We have no reason to be so infuriated against them. Such statements are occasional but inevitable More

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The Past, Present and Future

URDU

The language of Ghalib and Mir seems to be battling for survival, writes Dr Shah Faisal.Urdu language has always enjoyed a special place in the linguistic diversity of India. But it’s past grandeur notwithstanding, and despite the Constitutional status granted to Urdu due More

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Lal Chowk, Lal Masjid, Lalgarh

FICCI’s war cry and the ‘Asian century’

DATELINE SRINAGAR by Arjimand Hussain Talib

If a war cry comes from politicians or military leaders, normally, the rationale is understandable. When it comes from the leaders of trade and industry, it is of course baffling.The Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) recent exhortation to the government of India More

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At Gossip Shop

Ah! Those coffee sips and high flown literary discourse

Nostalgia by ZGM

It was a graduation without receiving a degree. It was graduation without donning   black robe and the pink turban- that often reminds me of our immediate feudal past. I don’t know, if it was graduation to unlearn what I and my peers had leant in the ‘ wana-penji classes’ of  the  More

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Kashmir: Argument continues…

This part of world has been rendered into a rambling spot

Freeze Frame by Syeda Afshana

      Turning Kashmir expert overnight. This is perhaps no Herculean task. It happens in a jiffy. Step out of vale and see the magic. People eye you ala gods and ask for comments carte blanche. Churning or rather packaging your words gingerly, thinking of averting brickbats, More

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The China Gate

China is playing cat-and-mouse game

What’s up by SAJJAD BAZAZ

Some time back, I was summoned to a local hotel in the Srinagar city by an unknown person hailing from the state where Britishers first time stepped in Hindustan to establish an office of a business house. The person introduced himself as a pioneer of the track two diplomacy initiated by him first More

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