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Sunday, June 07, 2026

Opinion- Page 203

The Kashmir Monitor opinions section features opinion articles, editorial opinions, today's opinion, analysis and columnist & opinion stories.

Violate and rule

Have little girls in India always been raped, tortured and killed at the current rate? We cannot tell. Statistics are unreliable, given society’s traditional urge to suppress such news if not, indeed,
May. 11, 2018

Using ideological battles

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, the proverb goes. When it comes to institutions of the humanities and culture, the Narendra Modi government’s attitude is more like: if it ain’t broke,
May. 11, 2018

In Pakistan a state without a nation

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”; thus Cassius spoke to Brutus in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’. This truth has held through the ages.
May. 11, 2018

The Inner Secrets of Fasting

Know that in the fast is a special quality that is not found in anything else. And that is its close connection to Allah, such that He says: “The fast (Sawm) is
May. 10, 2018

Spring Cleaning for the Soul

Cleaning out the closet feels great. You go through all of your stuff, throw away whatever you don’t want, and give away things you don’t need. In the end, you know you
May. 10, 2018

A Time for Thought, Action, and Change!

“Fasting in Ramadan develops in a person the real spirit of social belonging, of unity and brotherhood, and of equality before God. This spirit is the natural product of the fact that
May. 10, 2018

Role of police is changing in some rape cases

During the Kathuagangrape-murder incident while the lawyers at the Jammu Bar Association played a hostile role and prevented the police from filing the chargesheet, what also came through is the thorough investigation
May. 10, 2018

How Mehbooba averted whitewash over Kathua

The BJP appears to have stepped back from demanding an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the Kathua gangrape-murder case. While ordering that the trial be shifted out of Jammu
May. 10, 2018

Why a Muslim can’t offer namaz in public?

I personally dislike religious processions of any kind immensely. Any juloos, visarjan, jagrata, or mass — an overt expression of faith that obstructs civilian life and stresses our already stretched resources —
May. 10, 2018

Majoritarianism going berserk

When the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was pulled down on 6 December, 1992, a Delhi politician contemplated the Muslim community’s response. He was Hindu. Yet, his proximity to the city’s Muslim elite
May. 9, 2018
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