Are you willing to make the sacrifice for Allah?
Find out what stops you from obeying your creator, bring it to the altar (think of it consciously) and sacrifice it once and for all.
By: Saman Haziq The words Islam and Muslim come from the same three-letter root word (s,l and m) in Arabic, which means ‘peace’ and is also derived from the word ‘silm’ which means submit your will to Almighty God. Therefore, it means peace that is received by submitting your will to Almighty God. And the […]
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
HOW INCLUSIVE EDUCATION CAN MEET THE NEEDS OF CWSN?
By: BASHIR AHMAD THOKAR Inclusive education is developing and designing our programs and activities, schools and classrooms, in such a way so that all students may participate and learn together. It also means that all students including children with special needs are welcomed by regular schools without any discrimination. Almost 50 years back, children with special […]
Commemorating Salar-e-Ajam
BY: Sartaj Ahmad Sofi The death anniversary of Salar-e-Ajam Mir Syed ‘Ali Hamadani (714 A.H./1314 C.E—786A.H./1385 C.E) is being celebratedalmost in every nook and corner of the valley with zeal and zest. On this auspicious occasion, every Kashmiri aspires to pay great tributes to the Islamic scholar. The people are highly respectful and have devotion […]
Binding imagination
Cement was re-imagined as a functional product in an exhibition where the construction material took on many avatars
By: Shilpa R When Sundeep Kumar joined the cement wing of a prominent Indian company, he was entrusted with the job to change the image of the material chiefly associated with construction. The brief was simple: the versatility of the product needed to be presented as a hero. This thought then led to the genesis […]
Shanu Lahiri’s book ‘Tabled’ is a living installation of memories
The artist, who died in 2013, was an acclaimed renegade of the Kolkata art scene.
By: Kunal Ray Nobody who went to meet painter and art educator Shanu Lahiri at her Lake Town home in Kolkata ever left unfed. From fixing quick salads to preparing elaborate meals, there are numerous stories about her many experiments in the kitchen. Unsuspecting friends have found strange saags on their plate. The Oolong tea […]
VS Naipaul: Colonialism in fact, fiction, and the flesh
Naipaul personified what European colonialism, racist to the very core of its logic, had done to his and to our world.
By: Hamid Dabashi VS Naipaul has died. VS Naipaul was a cruel man. The cruelty of colonialism was written all over him – body and soul. VS Naipaul was a scarred man. He was the darkest dungeons of colonialism incarnate: self-punishing, self-loathing, world-loathing, full of nastiness and fury. Derek Walcott famously said of Naipaul that […]
Jatin Desai: The Peace Traveller
By: Ramu Ramanathan While India sleeps at the stroke of the midnight hour, Jatin Desai will be celebrating the Independence Days of India and Pakistan at the Wagah border. This chapter began in 2003 when he travelled to Karachi for the first time. But it was during his second visit to Pakistan that he realised […]
V.S. Naipaul, My Wonderful, Cruel Friend
By: Aatish Taseer V.S. Naipaul, who towered over the landscape of post-colonial literature, died yesterday. He was my friend, my mentor, my teacher. I learned about his death from a one-line email from his widow, Nadira: “Vidia has gone gently into the night.” Vidia, as Naipaul was known to his friends, was born in 1932 […]
CHILD LABOUR :The crime against children, future
To successfully rehabilitate child labour withdrawn from employment and to reduce the incidence of child labour progressively, the focus should be on the environment of the child.
By: Dr .Tasaduk Hussain Itoo Child labour is a barbaric practice. It is barbarous because it is illogical, inhuman and against all ethics. In the past, the practice of child labour existed as proportionate to the social development. But lack of human awareness, did not allow people at large and social system in particular to […]
Those fairly tales, the mysterious creatures; some heroics, some villainy!
A peep into the past-the wild animals in the grandma stories!
By: Tahir Gazanfar The earliest I knew about the wildlife of the Kashmir was from the grandmas stories where a ‘Seah’ probably a leopard but with a description of a tiger would be heard visiting a nearby shrine every Friday midnight. The other was a ‘Yeach’ probably a Lynx (a wild cat) popping in human habitations […]
