Fida Iqbal

Inspiring Thought, Shaping Perspectives

Category: Kashmir Government

  • Sukhna Lake and Dal Lake

    One is fresh and living, the other dull and dying! During the last more than three decades I may have visited Chandigarh many times, but my wish to visit its most prominent landmarks—Sukhna Lake and Nek Chand’s Rock Garden materialised only last week. Sukhna Lake created in the year 1958 is just one more man-made…

  • Politics of favors!

    We need to clean the system of all this mess. Politics is as old as civilization. The literary meaning of politics is ‘making of a common decision for a group of people’. It is a social service that channelises and articulates the aspiration of people. Most of the Kashmir political canvas for the last more…

  • Is truth bitter?

    I knew it is, but didn’t know the level of bitterness I faced! The other day, against all my wishes, I paid a visit to my boss beyond prescribed working hours. During the informal chat we discussed several social issues in a very cordial atmosphere. During the discussion, work culture, collection of field data and…

  • Open letter to the CM

    After all we uphold democracy as principle! Respected Mufti Mohammad Syed Sahib, I am a diehard fan of democracy—a democracy that not only preaches freedom and equality but delivers it too. The beauty of real democracy is that it empowers the people and simultaneously reminds them of their responsibilities. I am not here to lecture…

  • I Had A Dream

    ……… which I have not been able to realise yet! I am Kashmir. I have a written history of more than five thousand years. Several historians have chronicled my plight over the centuries and written marvellous histories. Kalhana’s, Rājataraṃgiṇī, meaning “The river of Kings” is one of the finest chronicles that had documented me, my…

  • Is honesty still the best policy?

    Given the times we live in, perhaps not! With life changing for worse, the old saying ‘ honesty is the best policy’ seems to have lost its sheen. In the existing inconsistent society dishonesty is no more an intolerable flaw. Alongwith materialism, favoritism and pretentiousness, dishonesty is the most cherished peculiarity in contemporary societal order.…

  • Privatised Education

    The scene is getting increasingly gloomier! Few decades earlier imparting education was the noblest profession and teachers were very often respected more than the guardians. But, unfortunately the once holy profession of teaching has now become a money-spinning business. Over the period of time, particularly during the last three decades both government administered education system and…

  • Fate of my FIR

    There has to be some law of the land that must prevail! There is no second opinion about abysmal working condition of police force in India. Much of police force in the whole subcontinent is not only overburdened but extremely stressed. In India police reforms are overdue for long. Police reforms are urgently required to address…

  • Not well begun…

    Hundred days of just being there! After a long political haggling PDP and BJB decided for a political wedlock and under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Syed the present coalition government of unlike political and ideological poles took oath on 1st March 2015.People of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in Kashmir valley had high hopes from…