A dismal performance

Are teachers to be blamed for the failure of the students?

WORDS WITHIN By Firdous Syed

Question, questions and finally the quandary. The more we try to understand the characteristics of present education system in the valley, more confused we are likely to become. How do we explain the status of a teacher in our society? Do we respect them? After all they are the social engineers of More

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A Paralyzed, Clueless Administration

Advertisements, “Report Cards” not Substitutes for Performance

HOPE By Junaid Azim Mattu

As the incumbent State Government completes three years in office and dutifully submits its “report card” to the Congress High Command in Delhi and issues colorful, attention catching advertisements in local newspapers, it remains as invisible on the ground as it has been since coming to power. The More

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The First Snow

Pamuk's Snow and our snow. Any links?

IMAGINATION By Tanveer Habib

In his room number 203 in the novel Snow, written by the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, Ka- the poet- watching snow falling from the sky, comes up with the philosophical words spelled like this; ‘My life is like a snowflake that hovers, falls and vanishes without leaving a mark’. These words are surely More

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A Letter To The Unknown

Push me behind bars, lynch me and hang me

MUSINGS By Nadeem Bashir Karkhandar

I come from a land of uncertainties where circumstances have forced me into a state of dilemma and disbelief. I don’t trust anyone and anything--- the system, the society, the authorities, the judiciary and not even myself. I don’t know whom to address my letter or before whom to confess my covetousness More

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