OTHER VIEW
Fear and hope: the two wings of balanced life
Life, in any of its forms, never stays still — that is the one constant feature of it. When everything...
PIB Backgrounder: India Tightens the Noose on Paper Leaks
Tens of thousands of students sit for government exams, each year, across India. The majority of them come from diverse...
Kashmir’s Real Flood Is Misogyny!
Every time tragedy strikes Kashmir, one thing is almost guaranteed: before the facts settle, before institutions respond, before society pauses...
Konrad Adenauer and the Human Work of Renewal
Every society, at some point, experiences moments when the path forward is shaped less by ambition than by the need...
FLOOD FURY IN PIR PANJAL: AN OVERVIEW
The flash floods, landslides, land sinking, mudslides, land erosion and connected processes are naturally caused due to heavy rainfall and...
The Paradigm Shift in Pedagogy
Mahatma Gandhi once profoundly stated, “By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in a child and man—in...
WHO NEEDS FACTS WHEN EVERYONE AGREES?
There is a strange power in the word "everyone." When we say everyone believes something, we rarely stop to ask...
When History Speaks to the Young: Chinar Book Festival and the Return of Rajatarangini
Every civilisation is, in the end, a story it tells its children. In Kashmir, that story has lived for nearly...
From Soil to Skyline: When Success Forgets Its Roots
Many professors, doctors, engineers and civil servants residing in Srinagar today were born and raised in villages. Those villages nurtured...
Invisible Hierarchies: At the end of the game, kings and pawns share same box
Some successes are glorified, while others go unrecognized. Every society creates an invisible hierarchy. Some professions, lifestyles, personalities, incomes, or...