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Opinion- Page 222

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

Defeating Ambedkar

By Manini Chatterjee The BharatiyaJanata Party president, Amit Shah, gave a spate of interviews to different television channels last week, days after the shock defeat of his party in the by-elections to
Mar. 26, 2018

What you see on FB, Twitter is twisted, and how

By Ravi VisvesvarayaSharada Prasad For years, social scientists have claimed that social media platforms would lead to greater social and political awareness and understanding, by providing easy access to multiple points of
Mar. 26, 2018

Frequent Internet Blockade!

By Umair Rashid Whenever encounters between government forces and militants happen in Kashmir, the government promptly blocks mobile internet services in the region. The move, as always, is to apparently prevent the
Mar. 26, 2018

Desperate times for Pakistan

By Zaigham Khan There is too much desperation in the air. It is hard to find an actor who is not gripped by the fear of the unknown, and feeling desperate as
Mar. 26, 2018

A contrapuntal archive

Contemporary Pakistani English fiction is beginning to make an immense critical and contrapuntal contribution to the reality of Pakistani life and how it is perceived by outsiders. An emerging brand of Pakistani
Mar. 24, 2018

Subtle Realism

Only recently, when I finished reading HasanManzar’s book Habs, did I understand the term ‘writer’s writer’. As Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, said, “A self is not something static
Mar. 24, 2018

Leap of Faith

Avshok Chopra — author, book editor, publisher, columnist and now a novelist — is a man of many facets. A voracious reader with a remarkable memory and the ability to recall what
Mar. 24, 2018

Aadhaar in the hand of spies

Aadhaar, the 12-digit number linked to the fingerprints and iris patterns of most Indians, the key to unlocking government for the citizen, is a security nightmare in a world where big data
Mar. 24, 2018

Critical times for Pakistan

As a practice to write editorials and articles on Pakistan Day, every year, it is inevitable that much of what is written should have become clichéd over the years and many of
Mar. 24, 2018
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