A Word with Historians

They are the custodians of a nation

PUNCHLINE By Z.G. Muhammad

I am not a historian. Believing that history spills beans, I often take recourse to history in analyzing   political situations and pushing forward my point of view. In my last Monday column, I tried to analyze Kashmir’s predicament by looking at leadership that has been in the vanguard More
What's a Metaphor For?

Every metaphor starts out as a wild beast, waiting to be tamed by usage.

LANGUAGE By Carlin Romano

Writing about metaphor is dancing with your conceptual clothes off, the innards of your language exposed by equipment more powerful than anything operated by the TSA. Still, one would be a rabbit not to do it in a world where metaphor is now top dog, at least among revived rhetorical devices with More
  • Kashmir

GMC employee booked, suspended for leading rally against corruption

9 months on, Police fail to produce challan

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, July 24: An employee of the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar had to pay dearly for leading a rally against corruption. He was arrested and then suspended.The warden of the Girls Hostel More


  • Srinagar City

PENDING FOR YEARS, BUS ROUTE REVAMP IS NOBODY’S BABY!

AUTHORITIES IN BLAME GAME; AAM AADMI IN TROUBLE

M HYDERI

Srinagar, July 24: Want to know how concerned the government is towards the transport facility available to Aam Aadmi in the summer Capital? Sample this: Even though thousands of people travel through More



  • Jammu

Nobody will be allowed to harm Coalition: Dr Farooq

FIRDOUS KHANDEY

Thatri (Doda), July 24: Union Minister and National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said nobody would be allowed to create hurdles in smooth functioning of Omar Abdullah led government.“ More


  • News

Dal Khalsa slams JK govt

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Fatehgarh Sahib, July 24: Dal Khalsa, a political outfit outlawed in Punjab during the militancy period, today lashed out at the Jammu and Kashmir administration saying its order asking SAD (Amritsar) More


  • World

72 Chinese millionaires had premature deaths

Beijing, July 24: As many as 72 multi-millionaires in China have either died since 2003 of unnatural causes or have died young, a media report said Sunday. They all had personal assets exceeding 100 million More


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