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Weaponising Idiocy: Milk-Drinking Ganesha to Taali Bajao

Then and now, a conservative Hindutva organisation had a role in spreading rumours
Yad ihasti tad anyatra, yan nehasti na tat kavcit. 'Whatever is here might be elsewhere, but what is not here could ever be found'.-The Mahabharata, 1.56.33, from Meera Nanda's The God Market: How Globalisation is Making India More Hindu, Random House 2009. It was the...

COVID-19 linked to cardiac injury

COVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a review published today in JAMA Cardiology by experts at The University of Texas Health S...

Denial of Reservation to RBA Community

Despite their extreme backwardness in economic sphere, these people are left out due to wrong policies of government
The 103rd amendment to the constitution of India granted reservation to Economically Weaker Section of society, but for Jammu and Kashmir the case is different. Here a vast majority of backward communities cannot apply for EWS certificate because people are getting a c...

Coronavirus - A clarion call for introspection !!!

Man the supreme creature on tearth has travelled beyond this planet and is now expecting life on Mars. His technological know how reduced the entire world into a ‘global village’. At the time when he was competing with winds & waves and aiming stars in his kitty a tiny...

Pride of Kashmir in Decline

Kashmir is blessed with rich history and cultural heritage which shows the traditions and culture of Kashmir and produces variety of crafts such as woodcrafts, pottery, jewelry, stone-carving, etc. The handicrafts from different parts of state have their own uniqueness...

COVID-19 : Is India’s health infrastructure equipped to handle an epidemic?

With growing number of coronavirus cases in India (and worldwide), policymakers have sprung into action – more information is being disseminated about preventive measures such as hand washing and not touching the face. Social distancing has been suggested as a tool to ...

My source of inspiration, my super hero ‘Sahil Maqbool’ (On his 2nd death anniversary)

A son’s Tribute
Nothing remains but good deeds. The very first thought of not having him around anymore makes my heart bleed. The pain of separation is unbearable. It tears part my soul and I feel a chill going down my spine making me paralyzed. My tears have now dried of mourning y...

Kashmir's fight against SARS-COV-2

It has been 5 months since the breakout of pandemic SARS-COV-2 and about a week since the first COVID-19 case was reported positive in the valley. The administration has ordered a complete lockdown in order to contain its further spread. The dealing of such kind of di...

Naming Covid-19 After China Could Seriously Damage The Global Battle Against Coronavirus

A move is gathering steam to name Covid-19 as the China virus. But its potential ramification can harm India and pose a much bigger challenge for the country. The current anti-China move can be attributed to the American President. From this month Donald Trump began c...

Business as Usual: Coronavirus, Iran and US Sanctions in World

Never discount the importance of venality in international relations. While pandemics should provide the glue for a unified front in response - we keep being told of fighting this horrendous "invisible enemy" - it's business as usual in other respects. The United Sta...

Lessons to learn from Kashmir: India’s fight against Coronavirus misses the poor

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
If we are over with clapping and banging on thaalis and the other noise rendering sessions, it’s time to sit up and see the dark realities hitting millions amongst us. Lack or rather the near-absence of water. And when we say wash hands every twenty minutes with water ...

Indu Kilam Waxes Lyrical: Tethered To The Roots

Book Review
It was perhaps the twentieth day of the lockdown. I had lost count of dates and days, sitting in my small ten by twelve feet study, like my ancestors the pit dwellers, I had no idea about the world outside. Dead landlines and lifeless cell phones had gathered dust as t...

Global pandemic or new global order

At a time when this global pandemic, Covid-19 has cost more than 10000 lives, infected around 2 lac people and forced thousands of millions of people in isolation, the implications other than health must be secondary. However ignoring them will be a fallacy in terms of...

Leaders Inspire Through Their Actions in India

The country is in a lock down now. The fact is it should have happened earlier but better late than never. The prime minister's call for the Janata Curfew was nothing but a preparation for the full lock down. It is good that people responded to it. Actually, this is a ...
 

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