Addiction to Social Media: Are we being programmed!
By: Dr. Inamul Bashir Social media addiction refers to a compulsive and excessive use of social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Tik Tok, QZone, Skype, LinkedIn, Viber, Pinterest, Telegram, Tinder, Reddit, and Snapchat) despite knowing the fact that the use of these platforms is having a negative effect on our […]
Upsurge; Rising after a Fall…
By: Mansoor Ahmad Shaikh Early morning, Nashfa is preparing for a new life with a spark in her eyes to get over all the frightful stuff that she has come across in recent past. While, with a lot of jumbled things in her life, she decided not to touch those broken glasses and shift the […]
Saying adieu never seemed so bad!
By: ABID WACHKOO We can’t start the next chapter of our life if we keep on reading the last one. On the evening of my University graduation it hit me—the familiar faces and places I’d grown so accustomed to, over the last four years, would soon be changing. The anxiety of that reality had started […]
In memory of Abul Hassan Ali Nadvi
By: Talib Shahin Abul Hassan Ali Nadvi was a great practical idealist, reputable scholar, dynamic writer, glamorous and most quoted Islamic historian of 19th century. He was born in Raebareli, United provinces of Agra and Oudh in British India. On his extraordinary addition of revolutionary thoughts to Muslim world, he was awarded ‘King Shah Faisal […]
KAS 2016: A façade with too many ‘facades’
By: Kubra With a plethora of legal entanglements, street protests, social media propaganda has taken a u turn. It seems that KAS 2016 has been anathematized right from the start. The posts had been advertised in June 2016 but, even today i.e December 2018, the mindless drama continues. A lot has already been written about […]
The caged Dove
Short story...
Gafoor was breathing his last in his deathbed when, in a frail voice he called both his children- Irfana and Azhar- closer to him and said, “Daughter Irfana, my time is over, take care of your younger brother after me”. With these words, Gafoor closed his eyes forever. Irfana was crying, wailing and cursing her […]
The significance of ‘Early Childhood Care & Education’
BY: Khursheed Nabi A child is an uncut diamond, which can put into any design by a teacher. The design is highly affected by the techniques and skills that a teacher possesses. Therefore the teacher should handle the Child with utmost care so as to enable him/her for greater meaning and purpose of life. Among […]
Myths about ‘No Noble Prize in Mathematics’
By: Dr. Farooq Ahmad Sheik, Dr. D.K Jain The renowned category among prizes- the Nobel Prize- is the legacy of Swedish chemist, inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) who on 27, November 1895 signed his last will giving the largest share of his income from the estate to a series of prizes. Initially he selected […]
ZERO– MOVIE REVIEW
A blood drenched lover, Raj, extending a hand to his ladylove from a moving train signaling the climax of an epic saga, A dutiful son Rahul showing us how “it is all about loving our parents”, an unconventional lover Raj Aryan questioning the principles of Shanker Narayanan to enforce changes in Gurukul, a NASA return […]
Remembering Shah-i-Jeelan (R.A)
The embodiment of Knowledge and Piety
By: Sartaj Ahmad Sofi Throughout the historical consciousness, we come across numerous epoch-making personalities who rise on the clime of earth and shine the world. Behind their greatness is the legacy of Prophet Muhammad’s (saw) excellence, knowledge and action. Generally, historians arrived at a consensus that while Muslims encountered some political upheavals in certain periods […]
