Izhar goes

This merciless disease snatched a gentle soul from us

WRITE HAND BY AJAZ UL HAQUE

Orhan Pamuk's My name is Red has a chapter titled `I am Death'. The angel of death introduces himself so mysteriously and comments on a conversation going on between a painter and an onlooker called an `old man' in the novel. The old man throws a challenge for the painter and asks him to draw death More

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Implications of India’s UNHRC vote

If India wants to be counted as a major power it will have to make up its mind on important global issues

Statecraft BY Happymon Jacob

For some time I was unable to make up my mind regarding my own personal response to India’s vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on March 22nd. Frankly, I was debating what kind of national interest I should keep in mind when framing my response - enlightened national More

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Inspired to Izhar

He inspired many, me included

Freeze FRAME By Syeda Afshana

 “She is my cousin, take care of her”, he said while introducing me to one of the faculty members of the varsity department where I had secured admission. It was not for the first time that he turned out to be a true help for me by seeing me at the place where I am today. He had been a source More

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My Own Nile

Nostalgia By ZGM

It was an odyssey- a grand odyssey:  ‘sailing along the past’ with the great Sultans of Kashmir, sharing pinnacles of their glories, celebrating their victories and tasting their benevolences. Singing hymns in chorus with the great saints of the yore and living mystic experiences with the great More

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“Bebooj Raj”

It has never been as it's now

MY TAKE By M Ashraf

Any student of history would be quite familiar with the word “Sikhashahi”. It was the total anarchy and the untold oppression which Kashmiris faced during the Sikh rule. Hameed-ullah Shahabadi called this period as “Sher-i-Napursan” (the neglected city) which Dr. Abdul Ahad has rendered as the “Bebooj More

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