KU’s UG Admission Process Is A Mental Torture

Recently when Kashmir University announced admission process for undergraduate courses, in different colleges of Kashmir, I checked the KU website for filling online form, but unfortunately on giving my pervious board’s registration number it conveyed me that, “you have to go the IT section of college for submitting it successfully”. KU started this admission process […]

The brokers of religion

People have to deposit their shoes to the guards at the tombs and pay them for it. Over time, such practices have turned these very caretakers into a mafia

By: Naba Fatima For centuries, Lahore has been the abode of saints and monks. This city is full of shrines and graves of these spiritual people. Whether it is the graveyard or the corner of a busy road, one can find small, dome-shaped tombs illuminating from oil lamps of clay. It is not the flame […]

Can Donald Trump Be Impeached?

It’s really hard to impeach a president.

By: ANDREW SULLIVAN The founders included the provision, from the very start, as the weakest, “break the glass in case of emergency” mechanism for reining in an out-of-control executive. He was already subject to a four-year term, so he would remain answerable to the people, and to two other branches of government, which could box […]

Manzoor, a unique mosaic artist of Valley

With talent in abundance, financial worries burden the young artist

  Ganderbal: In a dark, out of form room, in a corner of the house, Manzoor Ahmad Bhat remains immersed in making matchless mosaic art pieces. His room cum workshop presents an eye caching view, flooded with breathtaking mosaic art, seamless combinations of hundreds of pebbles and crushed stone. Manzoor hails from Guzarbal village of […]

Masjid Mariam Zamani — the ‘mother of all mosques’

It is the earliest surviving monument of the Mughal era, hence the name 'mother of all mosques'

You must bewildered while reading the term ‘mother of all mosques’. Well the Mosque I am telling you about today is the oldest surviving Mughal era mosque right here in the heart of Lahore, which is also referred to as ‘Androon Lahore’ or the ‘Old Lahore’. It is called Mariam Zamani or Begum Shahi Mosque […]

A hazy sex scandal looms over many lives

By: DWIGHT GARNER We’ve come a long way since 1964, when The Los Angeles Times ran a review of Christopher Isherwood’s novel “A Single Man” under the headline “Disjointed Limp Wrist Saga.” Perhaps we’ve not come as far as we think. When Alan Hollinghurst won the Man Booker Prize in 2004 for his novel “The […]

Not just liberals but also those who reviled her must read this collection of Gauri Lankesh’s works

TM Krishna pieces together the many voices of the audacious yet compassionate journalist that emerge from the ‘Gauri Lankesh Reader’.

By: TM Krishna I did not know Gauri Lankesh when she was alive, nor had I heard of her work. But the sheer cold-bloodedness of her assassination, the hate and spite that had nurtured this violent act, and the reality that we live in times when such murders are committed with impunity, tearing into the […]

A fight for a clean environment

By: Jatin Desai Sunita Narain is country’s foremost environmentalist. She raises issues which directly affects people. She is the Director-General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). To work for environmental causes in India is not easy. The lobby which represents vested interests regularly abuses environmentalists. Many time environmentalists are seen as people who are […]