Listening to Grasshoppers

BOOK REVIEW

A review on Arundati's field notes on democracy by Altaf Khan

“Listening to the Grasshoppers”, draws its title from the lecture Arundhati Roy delivered at Istanbul in January 2008 on the first anniversary of the assassination of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. It is a collection of the essays written between 2002 and 2008. Beginning with the state-backed More
Know Evil for No Evil

HORIZONS

We have to be aware of the designs hatched against us at a global level, if we really want to move forward on the path of knowledge and exploration, writes Dr. Wasim Ahmed

In one form or the other, volumes have been written on “Islam v/s West”  with the opponents of Islam trying to prove that Islam is incompatible with “modern culture and civilization” while the supporters of Islam trying to prove that the ideology of “West” is basically hollow, hypocritical and More
The pain of being a girl

GENDER

She wanted to be a son for her parents. But Alas! She couldn’t. A girl, after all, is a girl, writes Javeria Khurshid

Broken pieces of her broken heart! Where could she go with them? She was trying hard, really hard not to cry. But she couldn't control her already broken heart to shatter again and again. She wished life; an illusion would not break and unfold itself harshly in front of her. She would have remained perfectly More
  • Kashmir

Security agencies didn’t kill Bashrat, claims Police

ALTAF BABA

Varmul, May 4: Police on Tuesday said that it couldn’t confirm death of wanted militant commander Basharat Saleem of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), till his body was recovered.  Addressing a news conference More


  • Srinagar City

Witness identifies accused arrested in murder case

ROMANA CASE FOLLOW-UP

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, May 4: A year after Romana’s death, a key witness Tuesday deposed before the Court the deceased was hit by a car driven by the accused already under arrest for her murder. “The boys who More



  • South Asia

Kasab to be sentenced on Thursday

Public Prosecutor Pleads For Capital Punishment

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, May 4: Ajmal Amir Kasab, convicted for the 26/11 attacks, will be sentenced on Thursday by a special court. Asserting that Kasab’s case came under the rarest of rare category for giving death More


  • GK Business

JKI unit closure may hit roadblock

‘Employees not ready to take VRS without getting benefits of 6th pay commission’

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, May 4: Government decision to close down 10 units of JK Industries Ltd is likely to hit a roadblock as employees of these units have made the Golden Handshake or Voluntary Retirement Scheme contingent More


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