Get over Sacred Games. Here’s a guide to the best crime dramas
The most real detective characters don’t carry guns. They turn whodunits darker and deeper
By: Saloni Meghani In the British crime show Happy Valley (2014), Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood is prowling outside the hideout of her dead daughter’s rapist. And I’m unduly scared for her. This, unfamiliar, mortal fear comes from the knowledge that Cawood doesn’t have a gun – just a baton. The man on the other side […]
Universities and patents
The ambitious goal set by India’s IPR Policy rests on how universities embrace patents
BY: Feroz Ali Universities and patents benefit each other. Patents help universities to improve their ranking, establish an innovation ecosystem, incubate knowledge-based start-ups, earn additional revenue and measure research activity. In its biggest push to create entrepreneurial universities, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has now asked all universities in India to set up Intellectual Property […]
Do away with ‘Non-teaching assignments’ for teachers!
Any teaching staff with ‘non-teaching assignments’ looses focus on the primary job
With the introduction of a volley of schemes that are meant for education sector, the government school teachers in Jammu and Kashmir, like in other states, now have to shoulder additional burden of non-teaching assignments which, in turn, hampers the smooth teaching learning process and thus affects the academic performance of students. In addition to […]
IQBAL -THE POET OF HOPE AND INSPIRATION
Poetry par excellence is always the outcome of a serious and unrelenting conflict between a poet’s personality and surrounding circumstances. A genuine poet, like a genuine leader and teacher is one who can change the circumstances around as well as his society by changing their thinking and outlook through his philosophical writings. Poetic art without […]
BEATING INFERIORITY COMPLEX: A STRATEGY TO IMBIBE
If you are feeling inferiority complex, focus on making yourself happy without worrying about what others think.
Anyone in the world, big or small, fat or thin, black or white, can feel somewhat inferior to everyone else at times during their lives. We tell ourselves that we aren’t good enough, pretty enough or smart enough, but these comments are in no way based on facts. Luckily, there are lots of simple steps […]
Vox Popli: Winter in, power out!
Despite the fact that the Chief Secretary, Mr. BVR Subrahmanyam, recently directed the power development department (PDD), Kashmir, to ensure supply of electricity in Jammu and Kashmir during the winters and had claimed that there were ‘clear instructions’ from the governor that the consumers should not be put to any inconvenience because of unscheduled power […]
PLASTIC AND POLLUTION IN J & K
By: Dr. Tasaduk Hussain Itoo Plastic pollution is one of the fastest growing concerns in the current times. It has a very drastic effect on environment, thereby rendering it unsafe for survival of living organisms. Jammu and Kashmir state is becoming encaged in the huge humps of plastic material since the domestic use of this […]
The Book of Gold Leaves…A Love Story set in conflict
All love stories set in wartimes must negotiate hazardous terrain. Why should we care about a couple of thwarted sweethearts in the midst of so much death and despair? Great love-in-war novels must nurture both themes simultaneously. And the love must be the kind that can only be born out of war: forbidden, desperate and […]
In Two New Books, Unhappy Conservatives Ask: What Now?
By: Jennifer Szalai To hear Max Boot tell it, he feels as forlorn as the despondent, battered elephant on the cover of his new book, “The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right.” Boot minutely describes a disillusionment that wasn’t only “painful and prolonged” but “existential.” Here he is — a lifelong Republican with […]
Building resilience – a chat with Sheryl Sandberg
By: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Adam Grant: People who know your story are amazed by how you have managed to thrive in the face of adversity. What has been the key for you? Sheryl Sandberg: The fact is, I got through [the sudden death of my husband] because you and others in my life […]
