Author: Fida Iqbal
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The virus of corruption
…….and departmental vigilance officers. In 1994 to strengthen the anti-corruption mechanism, our state government tried to create an antidote for corruption within the system itself by designating Departmental vigilance officers (DVOs) and issued a circular No. 12 of 1994 dated 22.2.1994 through GAD (General administrative department). The idea of DVOs was to nip the evil…
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Shun your Egos!
Leaders can be bad but not trade unions. I write here neither to support any slanderous language nor to appease someone who has not been magnanimous enough to have patience with a large number of over- exploited class of employees. Last week’s face- off between Director School Education, Kashmir (DSEK) a brilliant, energetic and an…
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The Rumour Mill
How one small hearsay snowballs into a tsunami of falsehood Last week a unique situation of misinformation gripped the whole valley when thousands of children below five years were being administered lifesaving immunization vaccine drops against polio (poliomyelitis) disease. Everything was fine at thousands of temporary health clinics till afternoon. Suddenly, much of social media…
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Bargaining power
Mehbooba Mufti will have to learn to deal with her allies! Untimely demise of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad Syed has created a vacuum in Jammu and Kashmir politics. An able administrator and a humble soul, Mufti Mohammad Syed throughout his five decade political career pursued a political belief that strengthened bond of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Blow hot Blow cold!
How long shall this ambivalence continue? Time is a big healer and heals almost every scar, but it seems bloodstained partition of 1947 is haunting India and Pakistan like a ghost even after decades. Whether partition was right or wrong, that is a different issue and the trickiest subject for historians? Whether or not we…
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The menace spreads…
Of coaching centers of Jammu and Kashmir. No one can deny the contribution of coaching centers in the field of competitive education in Jammu And Kashmir State. For the last more than two decades there is a paradigm shift in imparting specialised education to younger generation, making them very much capable for sitting in competitive…
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Fake Research!
Revelations of serious nature…. While addressing students and academicians at Inspire Science Camp organized by NIT (National Institute of Technology) Srinagar, Kashmir’s renowned gastroenterologist and medical scientist Dr. Mohammad Sultan Khuroo made a startling revelation about scientific research work in Kashmir. In his address Dr. Khuroo said, “Research in Kashmir is doomed. It is a…