Some Provocative Suggestions

Searching the missing links in the narrative of sovereignty of Kashmiris

Muhammad Maroof Shah

Kashmir: Tragedy and Triumph,  the book under review, is an informed and scholarly attempt to wrestle with the confusion we find today all around in every field from education to politics. The author comes up with some brilliant pieces of analyses and provocative suggestions. Aghast at the sight More
Scantily Informative

VALLEY OF WORDS by Shakeel-ur-Rehman is a should be read for its linguistic brevity rather than richness of content

Professor Muhammad Aslam

Every effort that Kashmiri writers make to write on and about their motherland should be applauded and appreciated because there is an immense dearth of writings that would present our culture and ethos to the outside world. Especially, writings in English are so scanty that one feels ashamed that More
Celebrate the Passage
The paradox of sovereignty consists in the fact the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order. If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the orders own validity, then More
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Book: The Selected Writings of Eqbal AhmadAuthor: Eqbal Ahmad. Editors: Carollee Bengelsdorf, Margaret Cerullo, and Yogesh ChandraniPaper, 664 pages, About The Book:Activist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad (1934–1999) was admired and More
  • Kashmir

SHRC to investigate 1990 Gaw Kadal massacre

‘Report To Be Completed In 2-Months’

MUDDASIR ALI

Srinagar, Dec 26: In a significant development, the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) on Wednesday ordered an inquiry by its investigation wing into the 1990 Gaw Kadal massacre here in which 51 people More


  • Srinagar City

VANDALISATION OF JHELUM IN FULL SWING

UNDER-CONSTRUCTION SKEWED BRIDGE TAKES SHEEN OFF JHELUM, THE BUND

ARIF SHAFI WANI

Srinagar, Dec 26: In blatant violation of environmental norms and public outcry, construction of Skewed bridge across river Jhelum here is going on at a full swing.  The under-construction bridge More



  • Jammu

‘Night soil of 60000 latrines goes into open drains’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Dec 26: Night soil of over 60 thousand latrines is disposed into open drains without any sewage treatment in Jammu and Kashmir, according to figures released by state's Directorate of Census Operation More


  • South Asia

Osama paid Rs 50, 000 bribe to Patwari

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Islamabad, Dec 26: Even the world's most wanted man could not escape the bribery dragnet. Osama bin Laden's safe-house in Pakistan's garrison city Abbottabad was built after paying a bribe of Rs 50,000 More


  • World

Egypt gets first people-approved constitution

Cairo, Dec 26: Over a year after overthrowing an entrenched dictator, Egypt today adopted a new constitution after a two-thirds 'yes' vote in a polarising referendum, triggering fresh protests from the More


  • Kupwara

Shahabad residents demand bridge

5 drown in 3-yrs in Warnow Nallah

Shahabad (Kupwara) Dec 26: Residents of Shahabad in this frontier district are up in arms against the government for failing to construct a bridge over Warnow Nallah as five persons have drowned in the More


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