Of Art and Artists

CREATIVITY

Where young and experienced work together and see how art blooms and artists excel, Mehran Qureshi sums up a workshop

Representation is essential to art and art exhibitions. When we talk of representation, we mean it in all its ideological, symbolical and meaningful socio-cultural and/or political implications. However interpretation of a representation can never be final because all art is subjective. Also, genuine More
Kashmir through history

TRAGEDY

It's always been a tale of oppression, narrates Naveed Qazi

We call Kashmir home. Still, some people fail to write a sentence on Kashmir, because they are choked. Our land has been suffering since the last 400 years.Bookstalls give me a feeling of disgust. People from every conflict zone have written their stories but there is a lack of profundity More
Let their be Peace

NO WAR ON WATER

Water should be an instrument of peace, a means to achieve human security rather than a source of discord between different nations, writes Er. M Y Reshi

SINCE 1970 I have been attending conferences and seminars on water both at national and international levels. What I observed till 2005 is that it used to be a stereotype inaugural function where a politician would light the lamp and act as the chief guest. At the valedictory function, again it used More
  • Kashmir

COME FORWARD FOR TALKS: NC TO SEPARATISTS, MILITANTS

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, June 11: The ruling National Conference on Friday asked the separatist leaders and militant groups to come forward to hold dialogue for permanent resolution of the Kashmir issue. “Separatists More


  • Srinagar City

Pak artist speaks theater at KU

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, 11 Jun: Pakistani artist Madeeha Gauhar on Friday visited Kashmir University and delivered a lecture on Theatre as an agent of social change in contemporary Pakistan.  Gauhar, a creative More



  • Jammu

BGSBU ‘shuts’ after protests

*Supplementary Exam System Demand Triggers Unrest*V-C denies, Says University Closed For Summer Break

SHAFIQ MIR

Rajouri, June 11: The campus of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University was closed on Friday after students seeking implementation of supplementary examination system protested and announced their plan to More


  • South Asia

Pressure mounts on Arjun Singh on Anderson controversy

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 11: Pressure mounted on Arjun Singh Friday to break his silence on allowing Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson to flee the country as senior Congress leaders dismissed any role of Rajiv More


  • Business

Cool summer makes Valley hot tourist spot

NAZIA AKHTAR

Srinagar, June 11: With scorching heat beating down in other parts of the country, the Valley has become an ideal spot for the tourists coming in droves to enjoy the incredibly pleasant June in Kashmir More


  • World

Israel to form committee to probe flotilla attack

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jerusalem, June 11: Under intense global criticism, Israel has decided to set up a committee headed by a former Supreme Court judge to probe the deadly raid aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship that left nine More


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