On being Diggy Raja and a Guru

Kashmir might be a part of India, India is a long way from being part of Kashmir

BREAKING VIEWS By Naeem Akhtar

Digvijaya Singh is the scion of the royal family of Raghogarh of Guna district of Madhya Pradesh. He belongs to the congress party and has remained chief minister of the largest state of the country for two full terms. More important for the contemporary history of India, he is widely believed to More

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We want freedom

Freedom to say what you don't want to listen

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

This week Hurriyat (M) organized a seminar on Kashmir issue and the themes thereof. Following is the abridged and edited text of the speech delivered by the columnist. Kashmir fights and has been fighting for what by all means is a birthright. A land where natives have been squeezed out of space More

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And here comes the hangman

A senseless sensation that makes news in the modern day media

HYPE By Inam ul Rehman

 “Now we will show you how the hangman will hang the terrorist?” clamours an over the top journalist in Shah Rukh Khan starrer film Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. Couple of news channels get exclusive rights to air it live. Cameras are all placed in right positions. The strangling of the terrorist More

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Sons of Stones

Understanding the psychology of Kashmiri youth’s anger

DATELINE SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

A leading New Delhi-based think tank recently took up a project to understand what makes the Pakistani and Kashmiri youth angry. Prof. Moonis Ahmar, Chairman of the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, wrote about Pakistani youth from a Pakistani perspective.  I wrote More

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Waiting For Inspector

It was a wonderful occasion to revisit my past

Nostalgia By ZGM

It was reliving the past. Sitting in  the  fully lighted hall of my alma mater, Islamia Higher Secondary School three days back I was reminded of my student days. The school, as a part of seven day commemorations of the death anniversary of one of its presidents Molvi Muhammad Farooq had organized More

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Is Mehda Khan alive?

Influences, within and without, have made a cabbage of him

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

Your attention please! Ladies and gentlemen, you are welcome aboard Castle-Air, flight number 420, that will be taking off at 1200 hrs BST (Brazen-ia Standard Time). In about 20 minutes from now, we will be landing at “Brazenia air-strip”. All the passengers are requested to fasten their seatbelts More

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Time to act!

What about those who suffered all these years

WHATS UP BY SAJJAD BAZAZ

There are well spelt-out dates in our calendar year when in a spontaneous reaction Kashmiris observe hartal. Be it days like India’s Independence Day (August 15), Republic Day (January 26) or Maqbool Bhat’s day (February 11), Kashmiris in a state anger against India strike work. However, May 21 was More

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