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Sunday, June 07, 2026

Opinion- Page 228

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

Cosmology’s worst gambler

Stephen Hawking had a rich history with bets; particularly losing them. The best known was the one with Caltech (California Institute of Technology) cosmologist Kip Thorne, about the existence of black holes,
Mar. 15, 2018

How Civil Is India’s Civil Service

Does a career in the Indian civil service mean a life of ‘public service’? It is a puzzling question given the sloth and the thickets of red-tapism that have eroded the bureaucracy.
Mar. 14, 2018
Srinagar: Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti with Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu during the Special Session of Legislative Assembly called to pass the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill, in Srinagar on Wednesday. PTI Photo(PTI7_5_2017_000070A)

Mufti’s close confidant didn’t have Mehbooba’s trust

HaseebDrabu, the articulate, media-savvy face of Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was happier in the company of his old friends from the world of finance or the media in New Delhi
Mar. 14, 2018

Rethinking Islamophobia

“Why is a Black woman on your book cover?” asked the middle-aged, South Asian woman, shortly after I finished lecturing at an event in Michigan. The woman posing the question was a
Mar. 14, 2018

Breach of Trust

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes
Mar. 14, 2018

Boost Entrepreneurial Spirit!

Progress and complexities go hand in hand. One of the major challenges faced by most of the countries in the world today is to do with unemployment. The unemployment rate is growing
Mar. 13, 2018

Respect for the elders

Bard of Avon’s “As you like it’’ begins with intriguing phrase “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely its actors”. These actors, after playing six different acts
Mar. 13, 2018
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