O My God

Umesh Shukla's OMG is a brilliant piece of cinema

AJAZ UL HAQUE

O My God is the story of Kanji Lalji Mehta (Paresh Rawal), a middle-class Hindu atheist who owns a shop of idols and antiques in Mumbai. An insurance company denies to honour his claim after his shop gets destroyed in an earthquake. They plead that since earthquake is an `Act of God' so this mode More

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The credibility crisis

All such events smear the image of media on the whole

Abdul Majid Zargar

Indian media's credibility is at an all time low. The arrest of two senior journalists of Zee TV on charges of blackmailing & extortion has put a huge question mark over integrity and credibility of the Indian mainstream media. Naveen  Jindal, Congress MP & owner of Jindal Steels has More

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Of Justice and Reconciliation

Can Kashmir contemplate reconciliation without thinking of justice!

Rashad Hussain

Truth and reconciliation commission played an important role in South Africa to overcome the past resentments and fractured relations, created during the apartheid period. Actually Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a transitional justice system which is very useful in post conflict recovery situations More

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Me and Muharram

My uncle with welled up eyes often accompanied the Muharram processions

ZGM

Like all children, I too was born with a ‘canvass clean and pure’. Notwithstanding dust raised at Shaltang and beyond before my birth continuously clouding the truth during my childhood and it  stifled, with hangman’s rope tightened around every truth seekers neck,   I grew up to boyhood More

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New paths in Kashmir

Is it not time that delusions of old are shed and the people are not misled?

A G Noorani

IT is a great pity that a unique conference in Muzaffarabad, held early last month, has not received the attention which it so richly deserves. On Nov 5, the first-ever delegation of women civil activists crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir to attend a conference.The first such cross More

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