Shias and Kashmir's quest for Freedom

Festival of interlocutory

The Shias have always played a positive role in the freedom movement of Kashmir. Any attempt to belittle their contribution is malicious, to say the least, writes Munshi Ghulam Hassan

Parthasarthy's plea for equating Shias with Gujjars and Paharis and to exclude them from Hurriyat (G)'s politics is a travesty of political history, with the intention to propagate a divide in Muslim Ummah. Shia's have been in the fore of freedom struggle right from Sultanate period when under the More

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A vision clouded

COUNTERPOINT

B L Saraf responds to Arundhati Roy and Her ‘Warm boiled egg’

President Obama’s visit to India and his announcements acknowledging the country’s growing political and economic clout, as usual, have not gone down well with our perpetual contrarian - Arundhati Roy. She bemoans that Obama, instead of castigating India for its ‘Human Rights violations in Kashmir More

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Just juicy saucy language

REVIEW

One wonders as to what makes Chetan Bhagat `the best selling' author, Muhammad Kamran Shamshad writes about author's latest book ‘2 States: the story of my marriage’

When somebody takes a book for reading he is consciously devoting his precious time to learn something. For the past one month I read India’s ‘best selling author’ Chetan Bhagat’s all books. Every time I finished his book the only question that stuck me, who makes him ‘best selling author’. & More

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