Lucknow Boy

Mehta's memoir works on a command – Expose All

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgracefulLucknow Boy begins with this Orwellian thought. What follows falls perfectly in line as the author lays himself bare for his reader.  It sure takes courage to strip oneself to let others see what lies behind. Mehta More

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Multiculturalism: We need to understand it

Reducing humans into a choiceless singularity breeds violence

CONCEPT By Taqveem Vaid

Cultures come into being everywhere humans live and interact. (The definition of culture has an ‘embarrassing variety’ as is opined by Peter Burke, in History and Social Theory. US anthropologists A L Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhon have underlined the same by quoting as many as 164 definitions. Of this More

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The crisis deepens

Let's go back to our conventional means of production

CONCERN By Muhammad Maroof Shah

A popular saying, largely corroborated by history, states that a few decades back we imported only salt. So seen from this perspective of balance of trade our development history has been largely a story of decadence.  We have not progressed on sum but thanks to faulty state policies from 1947 More

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“Dal Wasun”- Our Family Excursions

Nostalgia By ZGM

Looking back, I often see my life like a chessboard divided between whites and blacks. It had its darker and brighter sides.  Many a time, whenever I remember olden days- the days of my boyhood, the days of terrific simplicity, joys, smiles and angers, I get convinced that we are a great people More

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Rahul's 'Kashmir promise'

A battle of ideas is inconceivable in laboratory conditions

DateLine SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Gandhi family's scion - Rahul Gandhi - made a promise to Kashmiri student community in September. While on a visit to Kashmir University, he said that "as a Kashmiri he had come there to talk politics." It was a rare occasion, indeed. In a year or two, you will realise what I am promising you More

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