Forget them not!

Hakim Manzoor remembered

Thoughtful Thought BY GHULAM NABI KHAYAL

Hakim Manzoor was one among very few Urdu poets of this State who had a deep sense of all that was happening around him. The happenings would infuse the sentiments of reaction in his thought and mind, rather very immediately and he would lose no time to give catchy expression to his emotions as a More

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Roy the rebel

But solution does not always lie in rebellion

WRITE HAND by AJAZ UL HAQUE

Arundati Roy is rebellion in flesh and blood. Her love affair with adventure has become a source of great sensation. A novelist turned activist, Roy fought against the despotism in the guise of democracy and still continues to fight relentlessly. Her recent essay Walking With The Comrades is a flesh More

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A neglected lot

SOCIETY

Backward areas and backward classes of Jammu & Kashmir merit attention. They have suffered oppression at the hands of their landlords, they must not suffer anymore, writes Dr. Mirza Ashraf Beg.In every society their always are some underprivileged More

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Kashmir’s brain drain

A loss or a blessing? Time will tell

Dateline Srinagar by Arjimand Hussain Talib

Kashmir doesn’t really look the same. Does it? There are two perceptible changes: one is the change in the manner we do the daily business here. In that, there is a feeling of a vacuum. A vacuum of energetic, passionate and able people. Second is the disturbing street, which, again, gives a feeling of More

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My bus stand

I wish I be a fiction writer

Nostalgia by ZGM

The other day, I saw Lal Chowk once again being fiddled. Monster JCBs digging and moving the earth and concrete did not bother me- they did not bother me the way constructing a bridge on the river Jhelum near the Grindlays Bank had bothered a painter some two and a half-decades back. Had the bridge More

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Life’s Journey

The ultimate destination of life is so near and yet ------ so far

Freeze FRAME by Syeda Afshana

Working hard for many years altogether, he had dogged tirelessly to see his dreams come true. He had put all his efforts to come out as a successful candidate in the interview he had appeared in. He availed all his sources and quarters to figure in the selection list. He utilized his complete resolve More

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Earth Hour

No rain, no snow. Are we heading to a disaster?

WHATS UP by SAJJAD BAZAZ

Yesterday, over 100 countries went dark when millions of homes and business houses turned off their lights for one hour to mark their stand against climate change. This was done during Earth Hour - an activity started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. Today it is a global sustainability movement and the More

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