“The Treachery Of The Intellectuals” ?

Have intellectuals really failed Kashmiri leadership

VIEWPOINT By B L Saraf

Hold your thoughts, dear intellectuals! The heading of the  write up is the translated version  borrowed from the title of a book written by a French author Julien Benda and reads in original as “ La trahison des clercs.” It  struck me on going through the proceedings  of seminars More
Club without Membership

It was life at its funniest

NOSTALGIA By ZGM

It was counted uncivil. To the ire of my mother, I had an infatuation for this incivility-- I loved sitting on the shop -fronts with my friends’, chit-chat for hours. I don’t remember our stock of badinage and banters, ever exhausting; they gushed like Kokernag springs and cascaded like Aherabal fall More
The Lonely Dolls

Oriental woman tastes what occidental one has already vomited back

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

In the beginning, said a Persian poet, Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgam—it was a woman (William Sharp, in the Portfolio).Surely woman is stuffed of different hues. There is everything in her, from More
Prescribing drugs unethically

Consumer health first, corporate profit next

What's Up By Sajjad Bazaz

‘CODOMOLINDON’. This is a word, in fact a trade name of a drug (a tablet containing Codeine and Acetaminophen) which I can never forget. This drug name is permanently in my mind since 1981. Actually, this drug was prescribed by a doctor to my ailing mother and it was available at a few selected drug More
  • Kashmir

Announcement about troop cut meaningless: Geelani

‘PILLAI’S STATEMENT POLITICAL’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 15: Reacting to the statement of Home Secretary GK Pillai about demilitarization, Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Saturday demanded complete withdrawal of forces More


  • Srinagar City

WHEN FEW INCHES OF SNOWFALL BURY CITY INTO PRIMITIVE TIMES!

Fresh snow cover yet again threw life out of gear in the summer Capital while Srinagarites had a day full of inconvenience amid power, administrative breakdown

M HYDERI

IT was 7:30 Friday evening when our Photo Editor, Habib Naqash reached back office after clicking some of his latest on the snowfall. But while downloading the pictures, he cautioned us of the bad weather More



  • Jammu

Transporters defer strike

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Jan 15:  Banking on the assurance given by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to meet them for talks, transporters have deferred their proposed strike for next 5-days. Transporters had threatened More


  • Business

Tourism professionals jobless in Kashmir, courtesy govt indifference

KHALID GUL

Srinagar, Jan 15: Despite introducing hospitality courses in curriculum, the J&K government has failed to absorb tourism professionals in the state sector. According to sources there are about More


  • News

Omar-led govt provided employment to 40000: Sakina

BJP HELL BENT ON DISTURBING PEACE: RANA

GK NEWS NETWORK

Bishnah, Jan 15: Minister for Social Welfare Sakina Itoo has said about 40000 persons  have been provided employment in the government by Omar Abdullah-led Coalition and recruiting agencies have been More


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