Waging Peace

You can't ensure calm by spreading fear

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Kashmir this year breathed normal and there can't be a better news than this for all of us. Summer is about to end, but speculations about summer have not completely ended. With Syed Ali Shah Geelani threatening to start a peaceful agitation after Eid, grapevine is abuzz with rumours about unrest More

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Please don’t call it a revolution

Anna campaign is self-serving, condescending and even dictatorial at times.

Statecraft By Happymon Jacob

Anna Hazare is a courageous man and I admire him for his guts. He has managed to do what a lot of others have not: think of it, a villager from Maharashtra is close to winning an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation against a huge state machinery which is not in a habit of listening to the voice of the More

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IB-intellectuals

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

Four ‘intellectuals’ were outlining policies for world salvation. One said-‘Now if we could get rid of all the whiskey, we could have a better world’. Another said-‘And if we could get rid of all profanity, we would have a better world’. The third remarked-‘If we could get rid of these and More

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OF Bells and Gongs

Nostalgia By ZGM

It used to be a momentous hour.  Much before the sun took refuge behind the mountains in the West- blazed the horizons and gilded snowcapped mountains making them look golden, I and my peers squatted on the lawns of the shrine in our Mohalla. Many elders, rich and poor, mendicants and friars More

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Boys and the toys

The ordeal of last year’s Eid we just can’t forget

Dateline SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Eid-ul-Fitr in Kashmir last year was quite unusual. For the first time in our living memory there were no festivities. The air was gloomy. Social sharing was modest. Children did not ask for toys to play. For the first time ever in recent past, no crackers were burst. Kashmir was nursing a deep pain More

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