Category: Articles
-
Using social media with responsibility
Here do you express and unwind yourself Net users are to be tamed and trained in a way that they should understand the values of freedom of speech and expression in the right perspective After the arrival of television and advancement in information technology, many of our tech-savvy friends and colleagues would often mention about…
-
Trump’s defeat.
The United Nations unites against US The thumping UN vote created a new world order of positive thinking and say a big ‘No’ to intimidation. From the day go Donald Trump as president of United States of America tried to attract world and American people’s attention habitually for wrong reasons. Starting with a team to…
-
Understanding responsibilities
The whole administration is about two things- Respect and Justice Open Letter to President, Kashmir Administrative Officers Association. Anyways, whatever your agenda and guiding force to unite, I am here to have a positive interaction with you regarding recent incidents of unpleasant confrontation between officers of your fraternity and staff of other departments It is…
-
Of private tuition centers!
Let private sector flourish, but not as a money-minting industry. It has to be a mission to teach and learn These statements of the honorable education minister in the context of existing monstrous tuition scenario in the state has opened a whole new debate and made the task of streamlining the existing education set-up more…
-
Democracy and plight of Prisoners!
The recent happenings make us revise the text of democracy The worst conflict, particularly during last more than two decades has brought Kashmir to a perilous situation of death and destruction. Indian democracy is now seven decades old. In comparison to its immediate neighbours, it has flourished swiftly with the active participation of common man.…
-
A grave concern
Is our healthcare system crumbling? In the absence of proper facilities most of our doctors avoid working in rural areas and for last seven decades, we are unable to provide a conducive working atmosphere for doctors and health workers in places other than big hospitals. Last month I skipped a routine appointment with cardiology department…
-
Heritage week and conservation
Join hands to guard the precious capital The present condition of these two structures is a best case study to assess our negligence levels towards our heritage. World Heritage Week was celebrated from 19th to 25th November to increase the awareness and inspire the people about the conservation and protection of the cultural heritage and…
-
A looming threat
Is Srinagar waiting patiently for another flood? The whole Kashmir valley particularly the Srinagar basin with main water carrying (draining) structures passing through its middle is sitting on a ticking ‘flood bomb’ that can explode any time with no or very little warning time. Srinagar and flood management are the two inseparable subjects and the…
-
The theatrics of Interlocution!
Kashmir requires a well-defined roadmap with clearly identified parameters and stakeholders to whom the interlocuter should relate. Optimism can be the only way to counter apprehensions. And at this point in Kashmir when bells of dialogue have started ringing virtually out of the blue, all have to be optimistic but careful. let me also embrace…
-
Before it’s too late
Is District Budgam heading towards an ecological disaster! Now the current falling environmental status of Kashmir is known to almost everyone! We are losing precious forest and other soil covers because of greed and vandalization. Until a few decades back, the valley of Kashmir was synonymous with untouched lofty mountain ranges, rolling meadows, virgin forest…