Animal and sheep husbandry: Lack of doctors, staff biggest obstacle in its growth
BY: Dr Ishfaq Jamal The last time JKPSC advertised Veterinary assistant surgeon posts for twin departments of animal and sheep husbandry was in 2016 and that too mere 24 posts. Our state has a total livestock population of around 1 million and total poultry population about 8273 thousand. Twin departments of animal and sheep husbandry […]
In Search of Self
A Review of Fazl Illahi’s ‘The Signs’
BY: Ibn Afzal “There is a fight going on in this world since eternity. And this fight shall continue unabated. And there will be phases of suffering and deliverance for man. Like anyone else, I am a spectator and an actor too. As a spectator I seem to be a victim, as an actor I […]
Myth-busting the Bangladesh war of 1971
An author discusses her new book about the historical narratives of the 1971 civil war that broke up East Pakistan.
By: Sarmila Bose Last month, Al Jazeera published an article entitled Book, film greeted with fury among Bengalis. Here, Sarmila Bose, author of Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, responds to the criticism levelled at her work. In all the excitement about the “Arab spring” it is instructive to remember the 1971 war […]
DRUG MENACE: CAN SPORTS BE A WAY OUT?
Encouraging sportsmanship with positivity, true spirit and discipline is the way forward to deal with drug abuse.
By: Dr.Tasaduk Hussain Itoo Sports instill positivity, team spirit, competence, self- esteem, self reliance and self-confidence in a person. If we talk of sports as a route to erase the menace of drug abuse, we may be too enthusiastic and it might be a dream situation – but it really has the potential and the […]
Introducing ‘Open Book Examination’
In the previous academic session, the Government Medical College Srinagar started new-pattern of Medical Examination by introducing in its Pre-final MBBS tests. This was the first such Medical Examination being conducted here in Kashmir, as it promotes “higher order skills” in students and attempts to discourage rote learning. While quoting as per the print media […]
Drawn towards the great wide open
By: Bitan Sikdar The invasion of gadgets into the children’s world has killed the storyteller. But the extent of the damage remains uncharted, especially when the storyteller happens to be Tarini Charan Banerjee, or Tarinikhuro. In September 1985, when Ananda Publishers came out with Satyajit Ray’s Tarinikhuror Kirtikolap, it opened up a delightful world to […]
How do touch screens work?
By: MUKHTAR AHMAD FAROOQI “We, nowadays swipe everything with our fingers”- these are the words that overheard two friends talking to each other a few days ago. This story got me thinking that many of us do not know what is going on behind these glossy screens. There are many touch screen technologies like resistive, […]
PHILOSOPHICAL BASES OF EDUCATION
Philosophy is the mother of education and education gives birth to Philosophy.
By: Dr. Tasaduk Hussain Itoo, INTRODUCTION Since the inception of this world, man has been constantly trying to know the truth. This “knowing” is philosophy. It is philosophy, which has interpreted man and his activity in general. Human life cannot properly be understood without philosophy. There is close relationship between philosophy and life. Conception of […]
‘The Last Englishmen-Love, War and the End of Empire’ review: Bringing history alive
A retelling of the last 20 years of British rule in India is peopled with animated characters, their dreams and despair
By: Anusua Mukherjee W.H. Auden is said to have found the bitter truth of war in the last week of World War II. He explicates it in his poem, ‘Palais des beaux arts’, (quoted by Deborah Baker) through a Brueghel painting where Icarus, the mythical Greek figure, is seen drowning in a river after plummeting […]
Adrift on island spells
By: BhaswatiChakravorty Like the Ancients, Madeline Miller knows how to tell a story. The Song of Achilles won her the Orange Prize in 2012, and the charm and pace of her retelling of The Iliad are again noticeable in her story of Circe, minor immortal but powerful witch, with whom Odysseus spends a year on […]
