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Amir Suhail Wani

R&D Engineer(Electrical), Columnist, Poet, Comparative Studies Scholar and a full-time madman.
June 6, 2023

Reading Sheikh Ul Aalam in contemporary times

There’s a pervasive but damaging tendency characterising human behaviour universally; those who should have inspired the realms of thought and action are oftentimes placed too closer to divinity. In so doing, they…

Islam and the contemporary world

An issue sprang up in the decade of nineties which concerned the legal status of “half-widows”, something very peculiar and characteristic to Kashmir context. Thanks to our classical jurisprudence texts which had…
April 11, 2023

Restoring Mental Health: Going beyond conventions

The unrivalled and social transformation coupled with the unleashing of technological potential has plunged mankind into the abyss of wholesale existential crisis and psychological pandemonium. Never before in the known history of…
April 4, 2023

KAS Quagmire

The results of the coveted and prestigious administrative service exams (JKAS) were declared recently, and, like always, the results have stirred cascade of reactions on social media ranging from hyper-glorification of such…
January 31, 2023

(Opinion) The existential message of Karbala

Karbala continues to exercise ineffable command on the intellect and imagination of people. Presenting itself as a paradigm, it continues to inspire people across spatial diversity and temporal infinity to resist injustice,…
August 2, 2022

(Part 2) Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki

Poetry, like spirituality is the call of soul and once the siren within calls upon poet to wake up to his ministry and mission, the flame catches each pore of his existence…
June 28, 2022

Mir Ghulam Rasool Nazki

“What is the essence of poetry”? Is it simply a reflection on and a reaction to what a poet sees around? Or does it have its own structure and essence – a…
June 21, 2022

(Opinion) Letter to past

“Return to home before the nightfall”, you used to tell me whenever I used to go out. Waking up early, before the Sunrise was another instruction you always insisted upon. Don’t you…
June 7, 2022
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