All for a song

Do we need to sing first to live or live first to sing

AJAZ UL HAQUE

 Our tragedy is different from what tragedies usually mean. The difference lies in the way we respond to any fresh development. We fume at the pettiest and ignore the gravest. We are losing (or may be we have lost) the distinction between the most serious and the most trivial. A petty issue More

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‘Rock on’, Pragaash!

What does it mean to be free?

Happymon Jacob

How long can force, threats of force and social boycotts stop the spread of ideas and arguments? New Delhi did everything it could - naming, shaming and maiming - to banish the azadi sentiments of Kashmiris: clearly, it has failed as azadi continues to remain a popular political sentiment in Kashmir More

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Tryst With Mountains

A unique experience worth sharing

Z.G.M

Those were the times of ‘pure imagination’ - a child’s pure imagination when I ‘travelled in the world of my own creation’. The clouds in sky, assumed different forms, turned storytellers and narrated stories not told by grandmothers. The dotted pictures on my brother’s drawing notebook, that he skillfully More

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Contradictions galore

There ought to be a human face to justice

Syeda Afshana

Wonder how things alter overnight over here! You sleep down in a seemingly peaceful ambience and wake up to see the desolate street outside. The stray barking dogs, few men in uniform and a moving police vehicle warning people to stay indoors—you rise to find your place under siege. This is no dreadful More

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Why Humour?

It is a panacea for all those ills that afflict the society

Ajaz a baba

 Why humour? That’s a funny question! Of course to make people laugh! But then what is there to laugh about in these gloomy times? Well that is it! It is probably this need to laugh out when there is nothing really to laugh about which gives rise to humour and satire. Now that reminds More

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