Curbing Tobacco Menace!
Parents can take a parenting skills course to learn how to provide an anti-smoking and refusal skills education at home. Mass media, especially social media campaigns are the need of the hour now).
Our present and future generations must be urgently protected from the devastating consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco in any of its form. It hurts deep inside to see the perils of ‘Tobacco’ and rises a quick alarm to control this menace before it is too late. The world observes ‘No Tobacco day’ […]
Vox Populi: Kashmir tourism- A victim of vicious conspiracy or just too unfortunate?
THE PROBLEM WITH RISING AIRFARE!
It seems that the airlines have virtually started believing the popular dictum ‘heaven on earth’ with regard to Kashmir and subsequently hiked the airfare beyond the reach of an average tourist assuring that not many people should visit heaven! The airfares to Srinagar have touched new heights just in the beginning of the summer season […]
In conversation with Naseem Shafaie
Poetry has always been soothing to one’s heart bestows moral as well as emotional strength; it is undeniably the best way to express one’s thoughts, feelings and ideas. There has been bountiful contribution by the Kashmiri poets without whom the Kashmiri literature would have never been so stirring, enlivening and versatile. In poetry it doesn’t […]
Towards a healthy, tobacco free, tomorrow!
ALIF organizes awareness workshop on ‘World No Tobacco Day’
Tangmarg: A recent study by World Health Organization (WHO) stated that ‘tobacco kills over 7 million people each year’ and yet the use of tobacco is common among masses as one in each five persons is either a smoker or uses tobacco in one or the other form. Despite the steady reduction in its use […]
MAKING SENSE OUT OF ‘WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY’
Every year 31st May is observed as WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY
Tobacco is either chewed [GUTKA] or smoked in the form of cigarettes, which can result in mental and behavioral disorders. Cigarette smoking is often considered as gate way to drugs like cannabis, alcohol or volatile solvents. Everybody knows the adverse effect of tobacco on physical health, less talked problems being impotency in males and abortions […]
Spengler on mass culture
By: Mubarak Ali When Spengler was writing his book the ‘Decline of the West’, published in 1918, he had plenty of material at his disposal. Archaeologists had excavated ancient civilisations and decoded the cuneiform and hieroglyph writing scripts of Mesopotamia and Egypt respectively. This provided enough material on civilisations which had till then remained hidden. […]
Alas, poor Bernard Lewis, a fellow of infinite jest
On Bernard Lewis and 'his extraordinary capacity for getting everything wrong'.
By: Hamid Dabashi “Here’s a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth three-and-twenty years,” the gravedigger tells Hamlet. It turns out the skull is Yorick’s, the king’s jester. It is here that Hamlet says his famous lines: “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.” […]
Leading by example!
A teacher who inspires students for experiential learning
Anjum Ara, a teacher by profession, who successfully led her students into the realms of experiential learning, is setting new standards for teachers. Her innovative work along with her students has already earned commendations from education department as she continues to inspire young children to think innovatively and try and resolve some burning issues that […]
‘The People vs. Democracy’ review: Liberalism on the brink
Economic stagnation, major migrations and the rise of populism are destroying democracy as we know it
By: Neera Chandhoke Charles Dickens authored one of the greatest opening lines in his A Tale of Two Cities: ‘It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.’ Mounk, wittingly or unwittingly, reinvents the theme. Most of us have spent our lives in ordinary times. Today we live in extraordinary times. Our […]
Ramadan Donations- Think before you offer!
From Shrines to Mosques, from trains to buses and from public places to traffic lights- all filled with people seeking alms or donations
The annual coming of the month of Ramadan is always a special moment for believers as the blessed month promises blessings more than any other month throughout the year. Rewards of Allah are in abundance during this sacred month of Ramdan and believers tend to spend some of their time in Ibadah (worship) seeking the […]
