Of volume and worship

All along we have been inveterate noise lovers

Ajaz ul Haque

Stirred by a Nayeem Akhter article (Aisee Nimaz Se Guzar, July 27 Greater Kashmir), I choose to get back to an issue which despite being written over beyond count still remains an issue. Like Kashmir dispute – unresolved. How loud can we go in making a deaf God listen to us? In Ramazan some knob More

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Character Certificates for Kashmiris!

I have several problems with the statement by Mr. Jairam Ramesh

Happymon Jacob

How would you deal with injustice and discrimination? By equipping the victim of injustice to submissively evade it or by strongly dealing with the source of injustice? I presume your answer is the latter. If so, let me give you a similar scenario. When the Union Minister for Rural Development More

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Generation ‘Rang de basanti’

Syeda Afshana

When bollywood movie ‘Rang De Basanti’ (RDB) was screened in year 2006, it became a blockbuster and received a huge fan following. With the tagline “A Generation Awakens,” RDB invited lot of debate by raising intertwined themes of youth, disenchantment, and rebellion. Many reviewers applauded More

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Our Ramadan Pastimes

ZGM

Full of riches it might not have been. Nevertheless, blessed it was. That is how; I often look at my childhood and childhood of my siblings.  True, I was not washed with perfumed waters, sprinkled with silver foils in golden tubs on my birth-so had not been my siblings and peers. On our tumbling More

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Hum bhi Olympic!

A saga of glory, shame and pity

Arjimand Hussain Talib

What do people like us have to do with Olympics? A reasonably fair question. The London Olympics are here. Over 200 nations are competing in a quest for excellence and glory. China – the new sporting super power – struggles to retain its top position of 100 medals it earned at the 2008 Beijing More

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