Life's a stage

It can end on a stage as well

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Dr. S K Pathan, a senior scientist in space application ISRO, died while speaking on the stage in Kashmir University. He was 57. Audience were shocked to the marrow to see a living, throbbing man vanishing in less than a second. When he stood up to speak, who could have guessed that before finishing More

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Will, not bill, needed for Kashmir

Nizam-ud-Din Bhat’s statement is ill-timed, ill-conceived and amounts to no more than empty rhetoric

Statecraft By Happymon Jacob

The recent bill proposed by the People’s Democratic Party legislator, Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, seeking the deletion of Article 3 of the J&K constitution which links the state with the Indian Union is ill-timed, ill-conceived and amounts to no more than empty rhetoric, to say the least. While the PDP More

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Unforgettable Words

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

I learned a lesson at the age of 17 that I never forget.... One day the headmaster walked into the classroom, and he put up a broad white sheet of paper, about 1 sq. meter, with a small black dot in the corner. And he asked—“Boys, what do you see?” And all of us shouted in unison—“A black dot!?” And More

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About on foot Excursion

Nostalgia By Z.G.M

The journey had its own beauty. Snaking our way from school to the naumash  through small lanes filled with tick-tock sounds coming from looms in dingy rooms, alleys with women sitting on their doorsteps, chatting with fellow neighbors basking in the sun,     streets resonating More

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Davos to Dalian: no party yet

The new wealth is fine, but it is not enough

Dateline SRINAGAR By Arjimand Hussain Talib

Switzerland’s alpine wonderland - Davos – is synonymous with the World Economic Forum. Davos has a peculiarity – it happens in winters and brings diverse global economic leaders and other policy makers together. There is something of a Summer Davos now. But paradoxically, it doesn’t happen in More

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