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 […]
Let Students Chase their DREAMS!
The summer capital of Srinagar has become a hub of coaching institutes. The city roads, intersections and inner lanes are dotted with hoarding of coaching institutions with pictures of young students having cracked entrance examinations and looking forward to a bright future. Many residential houses in civil lines have been converted into hostels for students […]
Entrepreneurs!
Despite lack of opportunities and a minimal industrial sector here, the state of Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing new trends among the youth who have decided to look beyond the rundown paths and carve a niche fort themselves by choosing to walk on the untroden ways. In the haze of uncertainty, these young, educated, dynamic […]
Quotas and Reservations in our Universities
An Open Letter to Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Central University of Kashmir
Recently, a local English Daily Published an interview with the current Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of Central University of Kashmir (CUK). The Hon’ble Vice Chancellor highlighted one of the crucial lacunas of the varsity, that University will have a special Admission quota for the Students of Ganderbal, where the permanent Campus is being established. As far […]
No Tobacco -Prioritize your Health
Recently, the Global Adult Tobacco Survey indicated that smoking and tobacco use causes 8-9 lac deaths annually all around the world. The survey further revealed that the state of Jammu and Kashmir is among top states losing lives to tobacco and spends more than other states on tobacco products. This reflects that we, as a […]
Remembering Bimla Kashmiri
By: R.L.Kaith Bimla Kashmiri was born as Gulabi Sargotra in a Batwal family at Bermean, a small village in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir. She had four sisters and one brother. She spent her early life in the village and later challenged the regressive practice of child marriage when she was about to be […]
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To successfully rehabilitate child labour withdrawn from employment and to reduce the incidence of child labour progressively, the focus should be on the environment of the child.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 […]
How long will this Lampooning go on?
By: Javid Rather I am writing this in context with the present scenario prevailing in Kashmir wherein every Tom, Dick and Harry has become judgmental and is pronouncing the sentences of his or her choice to deal with the teachers who resort to minding the students in order to make them abstain from what they […]
STEROID ABUSE!
AN INTERVIEW WITH HOLLYWOOD ACTOR CHRIS LEVINE
By: Dr. Tasaduk Hussain Itoo. A Los Angeles-based Hollywood Actor, Chris Levine, has been a victim of Steroid Abuse in his late teens/early twenties and after 10 years he came up with a movie titled “Anabolic Life” highlighting his battle with body image issue and thrusting into a world of steroids, crime and self-destruction. He […]
