Stones kill, bullets don't

Let's all mourn the death of common sense

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

The first asset bigotry snatches from a human mind is common sense. The idea can aptly be illustrated on hearing some BJP members speak in television discussions regarding Kashmir. A comment that will make even a nut die laughing came from ostensibly a well meaning man Chandan Mitra. Justifying the More

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End of Kashmiri fallacy?

In a tussle for justice, when a stronger party controls almost all the options of the weaker party, the outcome is inevitably cynical

Dateline Srinagar By Arjimand Hussain Talib

“The Little” Brown Book of Anecdotes, edited by Clifton Fadiman (1985), has an interesting story about Basmarck - a former German Chancellor and a German liberal politician. It is said that Basmarck, enraged at the constant criticism from Rudolf Virchow (a German liberal politician), had his aides More

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A paradise turned hell

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day

KASHMIR TRAGEDY By Taiba Musadiq Sahaf

Eye, gazelle, delicate wandererDrinker of horizon’s fluid lineMy eyes scanned the landscape, my ear pressed against the glass hapless, desperate as I tried to conjure up the image of violence on the streets.  I tried in vain to give a semblance of order to the disarray of thoughts More

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