The poor contractual lecturers are dying. Who cares!

This refers to the news “Govt sleeps over lecturers’ strike.” Indeed, there seems to be no one in the Government to listen to the grievances of the lecturers working on academic arrangement in colleges. It is sad that they have been forced to go on a hunger strike even during the holy month of Ramadhan More

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Undemocratic act

This refers to the news “NC district president threatens GK reporter’ (GK Aug 1). A democratic set-up provides space for freedom of expression and those at the helm of affairs are to guard it. But it is sad enough that a reporter is threatened of death and damage to residential house by district president More

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Stoning PDP

This refers to the news report wherein Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators and its senior members were “booed away” by people in Sopur where they had gone to offer condolence to family of a youth killed in police custody. All this anger by people is genuine because justice has always More

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End violations

This refers to the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s statement on Sopore killing and his support to the strike call given by Hurriyat G. Mirwaiz has made it clear that promises of zero-tolerance for human rights violations by New Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir government have proved to be a big hoax. He rightly lend More

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Punish them

This refers to the news “Family accuses police of cover-up.” The Sopore incident has shattered people across the Valley. The family members of Nazim Rashid have clearly stated that they have no hope that justice would be delivered to them. The Government must look into the family allegations that police More

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Good nostalgia

This is in response to ZGM write up on 31st July 2011.Even with the restrain of space the description of a particular type of eunuchs as minstrels of yesteryears is mind boggling. I have seen and heard them in first person. My uncle, who died at the age of ninety about forty years back, narrated a fantastic More

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