Kashmir Mahabharata

This Krishna-Arjuna division is too simplistic – to say the least

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Kashmir, says Syed Ali Shah Geelani, is a Mahabharata. Kashmir Saga, like this old Sanskrit epic of ancient India, also throws some immortal characters and unforgettable lessons. This Krishna-Arjuna trope has been excessively and quite naively discussed in the Kashmir context. Our analysts interpret More

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Test your Chemistry

As part of the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) celebrations, Department of Chemistry, University of Kashmir is coordinating some national level competitions among the secondary and senior secondary level students in Kashmir Division in collaboration with the national level organizers More

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Japan: Lessons of life

They seem to come out braver and better. They retain their moral self in the face of extreme crisis. We all need to learn a lesson or two from them. They are the people of Japan.

Resilience By Humi Shah

Japanese are trying to make sense of the disastrous earthquake. What must it be like to lose everything? I was listening to the news and a man had lost his wife, son and the grandchildren.It sent a chill through my spine. Not only had he lost all his beloved ones but also the place he once called More

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GK Shelf

Afghanistan and Pakistan Conflict, extremism, And Resistance to Modernity Author : Riaz Mohammad KhanISBN : 0198073844Publisher : Oxford University PressFormate : HardboundPrice : 895This timely study surveys the conflict in Afghanistan from Pakistan's point of view More

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Housing the Horror

Turning agrarian land into construction sites must raise the alarm bells. We are fast losing our productive and open spaces to urban sprawl.

Basarat Hassan

Imagine 10-15 years down the line. We are travelling from Panthachowk to Islamabad, squeezed roads, back to back cars, dense dwellings on either side of the road, hardly a tree visible, ugly structures like shopping malls looming after every 10 meters. What would it look like. Can there be more horror More

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Not Kashmir again

Time for Kashmiris to think for themselves, no remote controls please

VIEW FROM LONDON BY Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor

Either Pakistani leadership is living in fool’s paradise or it is bent upon ruining the terror eaten country to the extent that it soon becomes history not to be repeated in the future. At the moment the country is not only passing through the critical phase of its survival but also trapped by the More

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Money, Ideas and Bubbles

Is Kashmir fit for entrepreneurship and NRK investment now?

Dateline SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

A large number of non-resident Kashmiris (NRKs) today face a predicament: is it time to return home or not? Despite spells of gloom and uncertainty, lately, Kashmir has witnessed a silent but hyper economic activity. Still, some fundamental problems remain.We have wonderful human resources, which More

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Dance on Roads

Freeze Frame By Syeda Afshana

The realm of beauty and charm. Your land. I was rarely called to accomplish the task assigned to me at this place. But to my utter surprise, nowadays I hardly get a breathing space here. Primarily, because of the people here and then those at the helm of affairs who have failed to ponder into the More

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My Puttoo Coat

Nostalgia By Z.G. M

Ours was an austere childhood; very simple, but full of fun and frolic. Austerity, I believe had more to do with limited means than with religiosity.  I vividly remember my childhood dress. During summers it was white cotton - ‘laathe’ Kameez and Pyjama or Kameez and Shalwar. During winters we More

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