Corrupt condemn corruption

God forbid if corruption is really eradicated

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Corruption and incompetence are twins. Not in the sense that those who are corrupt are necessarily incompetent. We can have a reverse combination of corrupt but competent on one side and honest but incompetent on the other. What makes us bracket the two vices together is an argument which ostensibly More

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Of 1953 Revolution

The facts from Kashmir history need not be forgotten

MOMENTS By Munshi Ghulam Hassan

Government of India particularly Sardar Patel was always suspicious of Sheikh Abdullah's fidelity. As early as june 1946 Patel in a letter to a friend referring to Kashmir as a hindu state with muslim surroundings expressed distrust of Sheikh Abdullah ( Patel's correspondence vol- 1 page -4 ). In More

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Of Janus-faced

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

An old legend tells about a vicious snake that terrorized everyone in the neighbourhood until the day he met a wandering saint. Naturally, the snake couldn’t hurt the saint, and the meeting wound up with the snake listening to a stiff sermon on being nice to people. The saint left after the snake More

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Of First School Excursion

Nostalgia By Z.G. M

It was reliving good old days. On the Last Friday of the Holy Month of Ramadan, as I tiptoed my way    through the maze of narrow lanes to Jamia Masjid, scenes after scenes, strange and wonderful   started conjuring before my eyes. Pushing my way through as clogged lanes as More

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What lies beneath!

Beneath this mound lies buried the conscience of a whole nation

s a l t n' p e p p e r By Ajaz Baba

It was an exceptionally stuffy night and I couldn’t sleep. After tossing and turning for a couple of hours I rolled off my bed and went out of the house thinking that a stroll might relieve my restlessness. Just as I came out of the lane that leads to my house, I saw them. They were five in number More

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