Tribute to Shaida

The poet is gone, leaving behind some unforgettable impressions

PERSONALITY by Dr. A Wahid

“What death takes awayNo man can restore” - Khalil Jibran  Shafi Shaida's death was widely condoled. His doctor wife, Dr. Mahmooda Jabin, believes that he could have been saved had he been given timely, proper, and prompt treatment at SKIMS where he breathed his last. She complains More

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Aradhana honored

Will NDTV honor Mushawirat too?

WRITE HAND by AJAZ UL HAQUE

NDTV honored Aradhana Prakash as the `Extraordinary Indian of the year 2009’ for fighting a long and relentless battle of justice. She had pledged to unearth the crime file buried for as long as 19 years. Her friend, a 14 year old tennis player Ruchika was molested by a police officer SPS Rathore More

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What it is for?

MIDDAY MEAL SCHEME

Why force students to eat midday meals, to eat substandard meals, to inculcate a begging attitude in them through it? Asks Muhammad Maroof Shah.Our Department of Education is beset with thousand and one ailments. By all standards it is a huge failure More

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Street to Facebook

Beyond Kashmir’s '3 Idiots' controversy

Dateline Srinagar By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Internet (and now social networking sites) has changed our lives in incredible ways. The letter-writing era has really gone with the wind. Political propaganda machines too have changed almost totally. The means of networking and mobilisation have radically transformed. Today, battles of ideas have More

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I Missed School Assembly

Nostalgia By ZGM

Childhood! I think cannot be described in words. It is difficult to capture every nuance of those good old days in words and sentences that too in an alien language, the alphabets of which many of us started learning in class four. Those resonant cries from my classroom that drowned the resounding More

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I forget

What pushes us into an undesired state of absentmindedness

FORGETFULLNESS by Tajammul Hussain

As a part of my personality trait of attempting to juggle tasks, and inevitably, some tasks get forgotten, every time I lose my car keys, forget them in my locked car, my eyeglasses disappear into oblivion, I walk around the parking lot for half an hour before I could remember where I parked my car More

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Explore opportunities

Unrealistic approach is an impediment in the way forward to solution

Whats up by sajjad bazaz

One of my acquaintances hailing from Utter Pradesh sought ‘exact’ details from me about Kashmir problem. He was keen to know about the nature of tripartite talks and why such talks are opposed by the Government of India. ‘If Indian and Pakistan can sit together in the context of Kashmir dispute, why More

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