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About History and 2014 – floods
Shoeb Hamid About History Social media has received severe criticism lately. Proponents who believe online networking sites like twitter and facebook have encroached on our […]
‘It was like doomsday’
Hamidullah Dar As I finished my day’s job at the desk on September 6 evening last year, I headed for waiting vehicle to rush to […]
Resilience shown in the face of pain, loss
Floods: A Year Later For a moment, Ahmad (40) from the Chattabal locality of Srinagar thought everything was lost. He saw his two children and […]
Package or no package, Kashmir will rise again
Two tragedies that I witnessed in my recent past are stuck to my memories- the disastrous earthquake that hit on Oct. 8, 2005 and the […]
Who will ostracise ghosts of the Sept 6, 2014 Kashmir floods
Few Kashmiris can forget the night of September 6, 2014 and the horror that continued for nearly a month after unprecedented floods hit Jammu and […]
Afzal Guru, Yakub Memon hangings send signals of weak Govt: Justice Ajit Prakash Shah
Less than a week after after he demitted office as Chairman of the Law Commission of India after submitting a landmark report recommending abolition of […]
Peer-ing Into The ABYSS
Mufti Sayeed’s whirling dervish act sparks a heated conversation about privilege. Muhammad Tahir Last month, we learnt from highly placed sources that the Chief Minister […]
India can’t afford to ignore the growing Burhan’s of Kashmir
New Delhi must start a dialogue with moderates like the Mirwaiz and Yasin Malik before more youth turn to armed uprising. 21-year old Burhan Muzaffar […]
Can Mehbooba Mufti keep PDP together?
She, however, has no previous record of running a government and is considered temperamental. Naseer Ganai News of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad […]