Article 35A – Of dignity and collective identity!
By: Irshad Ahmad Bhat, Zahid Sultan Magray As the apex court of India is heading towards a decision on determining the constitutional validity of Article 35A, atmosphere in the state is politically sensitive and is freighted with political meanings. But people from all walks of life including mainstream, separatists or people belonging to any region […]
All said and done-Kashmir can’t wait forever!
By: Mudasir Ahmad Gori A devastating suicide attack, first of its kind in terms of the magnitude, in which several army personals lost their lives, has triggered reactions all across the country with obvious condemnations pouring in from all quarters. The incident, however seems to have fallen into the hands of communal forces and war […]
KASHMIR-IN SEARCH OF PEACE!
By: Tawfeeq Irshad Mir The use of ‘war’ as a phenomenon was indeed philosophically described by Aristotle, when he said that ‘War sometimes is necessary and that men make War so that they can live in peace’. The people of Kashmir are victims of a proxy war from last 70 years and yet there seems […]
Pakistan-India: Chasing a mirage of victory!
India and Pakistan, two nuclear armed nations have fought wars, some large scale and some very calculated ones, and have done everything in their capacity to destroy each other. Indulged in the arms race, despite being poor, both the countries are apparently being exploited by a third party as a result of their unending conflicts […]
Of massacres and flimsy hope for justice!
‘INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE’
Time flies! But the agony of the gruesome episodes leaves eternal imprints on the hearts and minds of people. The losses that can never be compensated, the wounds are still aching, the pain is still raw and the cries of despair are still roaring. In this long driven bloody conflict, the valley has witnessed mayhem […]
The colonial-era law is widely misused to serve partisan political ends
Under the current government at the centre, every liberal public educational institute is under attack. From last four years, we have seen the physical as well as the policy level attacks on the educational institutions and be it the institutional murder of Rohit Vemula in HCU, the disappearance of Najeeb Ahmad from JNU campus or […]
Magnificent mathematics as a sum of global mathematical efforts
Mathematics is something which not only has the highest relevance to our day to day life but influences all businesses and interferes every aspect of our universe in one or the other way. For an ordinary man, it is counting, measurement architecture and the knowledge guiding an individual as how to logically perform a given […]
Kashmiri Sufism, Islam and Hinduism
Kashmiriyat is a Prototype for Hindustaniyat - II
Islam and Hinduism – spiritual symbiosis In order to fully appreciate the depth of Kashmiri Sufis’ commitment to both Islamic and pre-Islamic Buddhist and Vedantic ideas, it is necessary to study the perspective in which their interaction with the two great religions took place. Islam and Hinduism have lived together in this land for almost […]
Kashmiri Sufism, Islam and Hinduism
Kashmiriyat is a Prototype for Hindustaniyat - I
Abstract South Asian Islam finds its best expression in Kashmir’s Rishi-Sufi order and its precious gift known in the valley and beyond as Kashmiriyat, of which the Kashmiri people are justly proud. The defining features of Kashmiri Sufism are a belief in both the transcendence and immanence of God, respect for other religions, belief in […]
Bureaucracy verses Judiciary
By: Hakim Mohammad Ilyas The State Judiciary administers a common law system of legal jurisdiction, in which customs, precedents and legislation, all codify the law of the land. The judiciary interprets the Constitution as its final arbiter. It is its duty as mandated by the Constitution, to be its watchdog, by calling for scrutiny any […]
