Category: Kashmir People
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Accountability matters
Towards a corruption-free system where a common man doesn’t suffer Our state against all odds has succeeded in establishing institutions to safeguard impartiality and accountability within the administration and for the last more than a decade, these institutions have evolved to the level of credible organizations of fairness. As a humble Kashmiri with very little…
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Ashtangoo calling!
This tragic chapter urges us to think about our survival. Sooner the better We have to have a strategy where we will make way for resolution of long-pending Kashmir conflict through peaceful means Ashtangoo is a beautiful hamlet located on the banks of Wular Lake—Asia’s one of the largest freshwater lakes. Most of the habitations…
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A double tragedy
Hospital with an agenda and a barber with a mission! Over the period of time, health and education establishments in private sector have grown rapidly in Kashmir. And with very little exceptions, to a great extent, both sectors have grown for wrong (exploitative) reasons. No one would oppose resourceful and authentic infrastructure development in health…
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Minister’s cousin!
Don’t we have an identity of our own? The first lesson of social science taught almost everywhere, reads ‘man is a social animal’. It implies that humankind lives in a societal structure within a complex organization of very close and distant relations. The distinct social fabric of mankind distinguishes and puts it above all animal…
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Meeting Mufti
Politics apart, he was a great administrator! I intended to write this piece on the first death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Syed, but then I changed my mind lest I may be branded as an unprincipled sycophant. Anyways, facts are facts and we should never distort realities. All my interactions with Mufti Sahib were in…
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Kashmir: Graveyard of Peace
Current Kashmir unrest must be read in context of a complete failure of world powers in Afghanistan resulting in fluid political and military situation in the region. Killing of many young Kashmiris and more than six weeks of siege is not less tragic and unfortunate for millions of Kashmiri people. Hundreds of maimed and scores…
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Footpath mafia!
We need a strong administration to address the issue. Few days back a walk through the city center Lal Chowk and adjoining areas was not only soothing but interesting as well. Overnight, almost all roadside vendors have vanished from this historic place and most of its adjoining areas. Clear roads, cleaner streets and enough space…
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Sick society, distressed minds
Where lies the solution to the problem? A survey by the medical humanitarian organization ‘Medecins sans Frontieres’ (Doctors without Borders) in collaboration with department of psychology university of Kashmir and the institute of mental health and neurosciences Kerala has concluded into a very grim state of our society. The survey conveys that 1.8 million Kashmiri…