My Downtown HOUSE

The weather-beaten walls of the house of my birth, held histories and spoke volumes

NOSTALGIA By Sameer Kaul

A rivulet dares to branch away from the mighty, meandering Vyeth (Jhelum).   Here is ‘Hedwun’, the stark white buildings of Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Medical College and Associated Hospitals.  And there is bustling Nawab Bazar, location of the once-famous Jamal Carpets.   And More

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A human and environmental disaster in the waiting?

CELL PHONES TOWERS

Towers of disaster By Prof. M.S. Khuroo

Out of many global explosions in the recent past, the bloom of cell phone industry has superseded all. Today there are a whopping 5.3 billion mobile subscribers worldwide which constitutes 77 percent of the world population. India had 890.2 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of Aug 2011, More

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A personal encounter

My Shame Was Writ Large On My Face

TRUTH BITES By Abdul Rehman Ganai

Few years back I had the chance to visit old airfield for some personal work. The place being sensitive from the security point of view, one has to go through rigorous checking and scrutiny before entering into this area. At the outer main gate on Rangreth side it takes about half an hour to get entry More

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