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Where have gone the days of a graceful retirement.? Selective reemployment is really becoming a problem now! Long back, in comparatively smaller and less developed state like Jammu and Kashmir retirement even at the age of fifty five years was accepted graciously and government employees would relish their post-retirement life. Engaging themselves in social work…

Once we learn to value our history, we will preserve our heritage… Today, instead of treading on beaten tracks of voice against corruption, injustice, lawlessness, nepotism, and exploitation let us move a step forward. Introspect and seek an explanation from ourselves, collectively as a nation, an explanation vis-à-vis our moral duty to protect our heritage…

A lethal mix of administrative errors and political exploitation… In August 1988 I reached Kishtwar on a punitive ‘Sarkari’ assignment after a long and arduous travel by bus. Like any other town a calm beautiful habitation full of activity with rich heritage and culture Kishtwar fascinated me and I took keen interest in learning as…

Who can bring us out the mess we are in? In a press conference Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) made startling revelations regarding spurious medicines in the state making the government to reply the next day by stirring the murky spurious drug issue. Presence of substandard medicines in Jammu and Kashmir State, particularly in Kashmir valley…

Poor man and his rupee one a meal! Once because of harsh famine people of this land were starving and they pleaded before their ruler to intervene and save his subjects. Narrating their plight the delegation of distressed people submitted to the King “Padshaham draag haz” meaning, oh! Powerful King, we are facing starvation. The…

Gool killings speak of an unbelievable administrative failure… Recent sacrilegious incident in Gool area of Ramban district and subsequent mayhem and death of innocent people came as shock for all. This tragic incident of mismanagement and highhandedness has exposed the administrative machinery particularly at district level. Most of the people analyse this tragic incident in…

West has repeated its formula of 1952 in Egypt of course with a difference… After Egyptian revolution of 1952 (a coup by free officers under the leadership of Mohammad Naguib and Gamal Nasir ), abdication of power by Egyptian king Farouk-I, Egyptian monarchy was abolished by the revolutionary government. On 18 June 1953 Mohammad Naguib…

There is an urgent need to revise our tourism policy… During the two decades of unrest in Jammu and Kashmir tourist trade suffered the most. Once, a favorite destination of high-end tourists including considerable flow of foreign tourists, Kashmir was disowned by one and all. More than the unrest the vicious pessimistic campaign against Kashmir…

Except Vajpayee, all other PMs have simply completed a formality of visiting Kashmir… Recent visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the pompous company of Congress party supreme commander proved futile. A few days before his visit a trail of violent incidents occurred in comparatively calm environs of Kashmir in which several people lost their…

Ecological disaster in the offing… Recent furious disaster in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh is an eye-opener for state like Jammu and Kashmir. Flash floods followed by crashing rocks brought down everything erected by man flouting basic and fundamental principles of nature. Nature’s fury exposed much talked about preparedness of mankind to handle natural disasters and…