Breaking calm

AFSPA debate, grenade throwing and some deepening suspicions

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

When grenade throwing was almost a forgotten story, Kashmir suddenly witnessed a spurt. Though such incidents are nothing abnormal and have been defining Kashmir since 1989, but of late the situation has showed a gradual and perceptible change. Amidst a war of statements between the state government More

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Kamaal’s Kamaal

Him taking Army head on surprised many, even his own partymen

COMMENT By Javaid Malik

The newly appointed chief spokesman of National Conference, Dr Mustafa Kamaal, taking Army head on created ripples not only in Jammu and Kashmir but New Delhi also. Dr Kamaal, who is also the younger brother of National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah and uncle of the chief minister More

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Life’s like that!

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

‘I’m disgusted’. These words have become a cliché with one of my friends. Even as it seems that she possesses a breaking point of high magnitude, the very little things in life perturb her quickly. I don’t know why. Her behavior always sets me thinking. She is not self-centered, it is for sure. However More

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Now It Was Naya Paisa

Nostalgia By ZGM

Stealthily changes were making inroads in my life - ‘shriveling’ my roots. Then I did not understand that I was in for cultural shocks - crude cultural shocks that were not only going to overwhelm me from ‘the grand perspective of history’ but also were going to root me out from my grandest cultural More

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We the ‘problem’

700 crore and counting, can humanity survive?

Dateline SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Any time around this Sunday, earth’s population is said to reach 7 billion, or 700 crore. By 2050, human population is estimated to reach 900 crore. Humanity, it seems, clearly faces a defining moment.Three different opinions try to make sense of what this means for human survival. Firstly, there More

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