Kashmir, without Kashmiris?

Quiet talks or track two – all off the track

Thoughtful Thought by GHULAM NABI KHAYAL

       For some years now, pseudo-intellectuals, non-Kashmiri political activists and so called Kashmir experts from India and Pakistan have been going on with their exercise on Kashmir in futility for nothing has come out of these unending deliberations which on occasions More

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War talk

Give up and give us what we need. Peace

Write Hand by Ajaz-ul-Haque

It’s been a war and peace story all these years between India and Pakistan. Whenever clouds of war loom large, some grave concerns are expressed, some forgotten questions resurface and some stock answers rescue us at last. Forget India and Pakistan, see what war does. As long as it remains confined More

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Saving Naseem Bagh

OVERSEAS by Fazal Faraz Malik

The decision to preserve Naseem Bagh and its majestic Chinars reflects the welcome change in Kashmir University’s  vision to put in practice what it teaches in the classrooms.After decades of academic inertia and administrative mismanagement, the More

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When tomorrow dies

It is not about Kishenganga Project alone

Arjimand Hussain Talib

In response to last week’s column, a gentleman from New Delhi in an e-mail to me wrote that the arguments against Kishenganga Project were ‘lunacy.’ Tomorrow never dies, he wrote, adding that my views were ‘alarmist, anti-progress and reflective of trivial sentimentalism.’He also wrote what More

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And I Made Buntings

Here I recall the colours of a carefree childhood

Nostalgia by ZGM

Let me borrow a sentence- a half sentence, ‘the names that register they people our collective memory’.  In my childhood many names crowded my tender mind.  ‘Some-those who destroy rather than build- we would like to forget but most make us pause and think of the past.’  I and my More

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Kashmir Experiments

Sadly, Kashmir is a place for trying out absurd plans

Freeze Frame by Syeda Afshana

  Aptly said: ‘In the war of ideas, it’s people who get killed.’ Wars are simply clashes of ideological dogmas and subsequent turnovers. Nothing really interests history except escapades of those who manoeuvre history. This has been the harsh lesson.Using the various combinations More

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Water politics

Is India strangulating Pakistan’s economy?

WHATS UP SAJJAD BAZAZ

Over the past few weeks, India and Pakistan have been exchanging war cries at regular intervals. Even as this is not new, today it holds significance as the visible cause of any war between the two countries will not be this time to gain control over territory but to control water resources. A few More

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