BILL-OGICAL

ANALYSIS

The inter-district recruitment bill has only tried to create an illusion of resolving a crisis, writes Riyaz Ahmad.In response to the eventual passage of healthcare bill in the Congress recently, the Republican Party senator Jim DeMint in More

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Iqbal this week

After all poetry is poetry

WRITE HAND by AJAZ UL HAQUE

This week we will be celebrating Iqbal day. Him we remember as a great luminary of Muslim world. He is one of the few thinkers who is admired and assaulted for the same reasons. Like all great personalities, he too battled hard with contradictions which ultimately resulted in the making of a mind More

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“His name was “Mahjoor Sharief?”

.......and he lived in “Ajmer Sharief”!

Thoughtful Thought by GHULAM NABI KHAYAL

The people of Kashmir have been very indifferent, ignorant and negligent with regard to respecting, remembering and honouring their luminaries in the field of culture and literature. This is obviously because of dirty politics overtaking all othergood values of our social set up and putting forward More

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After Nuke Party

Would India and Pakistan now engage?

Dateline Srinagar By Arjimand Hussain Talib

The Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington last week is significant for many reasons for our region.One, it saw participation of India and Pakistan as two recognized nuclear powers. Two, it again underlined intense US interest in easing the existing More

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Cinema Turns Shrine

Those days cinema was a forbidden territory for women

Nostalgia by ZGM

My mother had not been to a school. She was not an exception, so was true about my aunt. Ours was a predominantly working-class society. I don’t remember if mother of any of my buddies   had also been to a school. Majority of them could read Quran; they had learnt it in   Chatihalls More

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Down the Lake

He witnessed the downslide: Lake turning cesspool

Freeze FRAME by Syeda Afshana

The wrinkled face was parched and frail like a fallen Chinar leaf in autumn, which once looked green and glorious. Behind the old visage, there was more of him to see. Struggling between past and future, verve and sloth, triumphs and letdowns, warmth and seclusion—he was coldly looking at the sophisticated More

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Media matters

Declare media as a sector in J&K

WHATS UP by SAJJAD BAZAZ

The annual Press Freedom Report for South Asia which is to be released on the World Press Freedom day, reads that Jammu and Kashmir continues to pose serious challenges for journalism. The report has also pointed out the tendency of the government machinery to blame the local media in Kashmir for More

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