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

Writers and the rituals

Last month marked the launch of the Smithsonian Institution’s ‘Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation’ travelling exhibit at the Asian American Resource Centre (AARC) in Austin, Texas, organised by my friends
Mar. 31, 2018

Pakistan’s literary landscape

Rich in essence and pure in content, Pakistan’s literature in English and Urdu – and from various regional languages – presents to the readers a world emanating from the tradition and culture
Mar. 31, 2018

Death by numbers

The subtitle of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs is A Novel in Clues. How clever, maybe even a bit twee. Is Jacobs about to lead readers on a
Mar. 31, 2018

The “Mullah” Republic of Pakistan

Religious fundamentalism is posing an existential threat to the sovereignty of the country. During and after the Afghan war, clerics trained many young men and radicalised them on the pretext of jihad.
Mar. 31, 2018

The issue of polygamy

Among the arguments that the Supreme Court relied on to invalidate talaq-e-biddat, or instant divorce, last year, was that the practice was considered unIslamic in even Muslim countries, many of which had
Mar. 31, 2018
A massive fire broke out on Sunday evening during a cultural programme at Make In India week event in Mumbai. The fire broke out below the stage during the programme.Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and governor C Vidyasagar Rao who were present during the programme were quickly moved out of the area. Express photo by Prashant Nadkar,Mumbai, 14/02/2016

Is This My India?

I never heard about Kakinara until two days ago when that tehsil in 24 Parganas of West Bengal burst into news. I saw a video clip of a frenzied mob in a
Mar. 31, 2018
Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on the occasion of Vijay Dashmi at Kishan kunj in New Delhi Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Express Photo By Amit Mehra

Foreign hand in the Sangh

RakeshSinha’s article, ‘RSS and the realm of ideas’ in the Indian Express, March 17, is a template for how to rewrite history through falsehood and misrepresentation, served with a shot of confusion.
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