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By  Shabbir Aariz Someone has aptly and interestingly said, “Lucky is the man who can laugh on himself for he shall never cease to be amused.” There is a great sense of

By  Priya Ramani You know you are anti-national (AN, adjective: critical of the establishment, one who is opposed to New India) if you not only mourn the deaths of our soldiers but

By  Bhushan Parimoo Pronounced thrust is being articulated to improve Health &Wealth through Medicinal Plants these days. A well come step long overdue in a right direction. But there is nothing

By  Kaveree Bamzai When Tathagata Roy, the 73-year-old governor of Meghalaya, tweeted an appeal from a retired colonel of the Indian Army, without naming him, to “boycott everything Kashmiri”, he set

By  Sunanda K. Datta-Ray The two most sensible comments amidst the hysteria that succeeded the Pulwama massacre were both by former Kashmir chief ministers. Omar Abdullah’s anguished plea that “Kashmir isn’t just

By Ali Madeeh Hashmi January 18 was Manto’s 64th death anniversary and it should be noted that Manto has been experiencing something of a renaissance for quite a few years. Manto’s best

By Umair Khan The relationship between Pakistan and India has seen many ups and downs — probably more downs than it should have. Several books have been written to explore the intricacies

By Nijah S. Khan Asia, the world’s largest and most populous continent, home to 48 countries each with their own diverse cultures and subcultures, languages and religions, presents an interesting situation: What

Women are making their presence felt in fields which were once out of bounds for them. Be it sports, media or fashion, women are rising everywhere. Kashmir too is witnessing such cases

By SHABBIR AARIZ While the year gone by has been the bloodiest, the advent of 2019 has inflicted yet another unkind blow in terms of lives that it has claimed in this