Who is Responsible?

Why do we see our youth on death track?

SOCIETY By Prof. A. G. Madhosh

Why does one youth prefer death to life? Why our children refuse to look beyond their fixed targets, goals and ambitions? Why “death” as an immediate option is taken as an instant solution to personal conflicts? The master question, however is : who is responsible for a scenario of ever increasing More

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Who killed Shafiq?

You, me and all but not the one who threw the stone

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Another life goes. As stones rain in the city, humans pay with their blood. The killing of Shafiq Ahmad has once again raised a question mark against the very resistance tactic popularly known as kani-jang. The debate that divided a school of opinion into `pro' and `anti'. Not pro-India and anti-India More

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Age no bar

17 or 70, life has gone unimaginably cheap

Thoughtful Thought By GHULAM NABI KHAYAL

It was on 26 May 1990, when Girish Chandra Saxena, a former chief of the Indian foreign intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW),  took over a the governor of J&K state.  If I don’t exaggerate, he soon became one of my kind friends. He would frequently call me to his More

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Shabby Srinagar!

Issues PWD, SMC, UEED, ERA, etc. need to address

Arjimand Hussain Talib

A sensitive look at Srinagar city today makes you sad. Despite a lot of hoopla about making it green, clean and ‘developed’, it doesn’t get any better, it seems. Worse, it is losing its pristine aesthetic charm quite fast. Some of its grand historical landmarks are degrading. Some have been totally More

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Another Lesson Learnt

It was my tryst with freedom of expression

Nostalgia By ZGM

Political baptism: I did write sometimes back that I was politically baptized before I was admitted in the kindergarten. It is not being hyperbolic but a reality- a reality that you might have lived through. Yes, I was politically baptized   before I had learnt making beautiful tiny paper More

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Crucial Year!

Ultimately, one such year proved fatally crucial for him

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

There were seven million wonders of the world in the eyes of this child. He was born into this world as a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility. The only son of his parents.His mother meticulously packed his lunch, water bottle and some spare clothes. Honk! Honk! No sooner More

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Let them shine

Let's not stuff our kids with books and bags only

Whats up By Sajjad bazaz

The problem with us that we overstress our children needlessly. This can take a very disastrous turn as it has taken in the past as well. We as parents or teachers have to take care of the overall development of our children. It's not only their academic life that matters. They are to be taught the More

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