Bollywood movie: where fantasy meets reality!
By Nilesh Kunwar Talking about Bollywood film plots, here’s one: A boy is so badly smitten by his online ‘girlfriend’ that he decides to marry her, but just like all love stories, there’s a big hurdle in the way. No, not the hackneyed one in which religion plays the spoiler (as you may have expected), […]
Enough of restrictions, restore 4G now
BY: Abid Hussain Rather The Jammu and Kashmir administration is opposed to of 4G internet services in the Union territory. It has been maintaining that restrictions on internet speed are “only to protect the sovereignty, integrity and security” of the country. Everyone is aware about the necessity and importance of restoration of 4G internet services […]
Lockdown: some questions remain unanswered!
By: Khan Emran It was evening time. Sun was about to set. People were preparing for Iftar (breaking fast in Ramadhan). My neighbour Ghulam Mohammad (name-changed) opened his shop to sell Iftari items like semolina (suji), sugar, basil seeds, juice, fruits, etc. There were not many people at his shop when a police jeep on […]
Coronavirus: The pandemic under erasure
By: Javeed Ahmad Raina Novel coronavirus pandemic, a communicable disease of complex nature, apart from the large-scale devastation it has brought about, also provides us an occasion to ponder upon pre-existing maladies of the contemporary capitalist world – be it the racial stereotyping in the West, or the ramping up religious prejudice in the East. […]
Pandemic and Ramadan
BY: Roouf-un-Nabi Dar Months ago, deadly COVID-19 hit us so bad and so hard that the entire world has been brought on knees. There was no early warning system for this. The VIRUS came with absolutely no alarm, and has since put the world under lockdown. Not everything is in man’s hands. Everything happens by […]
Covid-19 and crumbling globalization
BY: Irfanul Haq War and disease have always played a significant role in changing societies and states altogether. Today it is not war but war-like crises are looming large around the globe and cause is SARS COVID-19spectre, which can prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back. It has become progressively more […]
Lockdown – a social vaccine
Measures against HIV-AIDS provide important clues in fight against COVID-19
Shabir Ahmad In the fight against COVID-19, world-over countries are trying to contain the spread of the pandemic. They are relying on a hybrid strategy of imposing lockdowns and scaling up testing. Even as this strategy has severe socio-economic consequences and can’t be sustainable in the long-run, but as of now this seems all that […]
Challenges to democracy in India
By: Syed Mustafa Ahmad When Widrow Wilson (former US president) said that democracy to him is the release of energies of every human-being, he was not making a statement. He actually underlined a universal truth. The very existence of India as a nation rests on its democratic ideals. But today the democratic legitimacy of the […]
Coronavirus outbreak and societal challenges
By: Azhar Yousuf The coronavirus (COVID-19) broke out in Wuhan, China, during the culmination of the year 2019, and since then the virus has posed a serious threat to the entire humanity. Whole world is facing immense trouble in effectively containing the virus and dealing with the situations in the aftermath. The World Health Organization […]
Age-related emotional turbulence and suicides
BY: Syed Mustafa Ahmad Given the present situation, anyone can feels suffocated. The chaotic situations prevailing all around forces people to look for an easy escape – sometimes suicide being one! The age group of 15-29 years is my concern, as I myself belong to this group. This stage of life is called the ‘age […]
