Continuing with its extraordinary zeal and sincerity the UT administration is treading ahead by taking into account each and every issue of general masses by giving due focus and doing its best to resolve the same in a fail-safe manner thus adding convenience into the lives of people and ensuring to make J&K a better […]

PALASH KRISHNA MEHROTRA When Kunal Kamra first realised that Arnab Goswami was travelling on the same plane as him, he must have said to himself: Man, this is too good an opportunity to let go of. Goswami, for a change, looked like a rabbit with sideburns, trapped in blinding headlights. He kept the shades on […]

JAWED NAQVI The gunman half danced, half walked with a swagger towards the swarming crowd of India’s bravest women. His movements resembled a Shyam Benegal movie sequence around an obscure ritual to propitiate a remote southern deity. The women had been protesting for weeks in Delhi against Prime Minister Modi’s communally framed citizenship law that […]

KISHWAR DESAI So finally we left! Amidst much flag- waving and singing and speeches outside Parliament, the UK exited the European Union. For many of us it was a bit of an anti-climax as it felt like that the whole thing had already been done! After all, it is something we have talked about, discussed, […]

ANAND K SAHAY The participation of thousands — or is it tens of thousands? — of its residents in marches, sit-ins, and the making of human chains to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, a series of emotion-filled actions sustained over a period of nearly two months (and still unflagging), has helped New Delhi reclaim […]

Culture is one of the most important and basic concepts of sociology. In sociology culture has a specific meaning. The anthropologists believe that the behaviour which is meant is called culture. In other words the behavior which is transmitted to us by someone is called culture. The way of living, eating, wearing, singing, dancing and […]

K C SINGH The European Parliament’s move to debate and subsequently vote on a resolution, moved by an overwhelming majority of members from across a wide political spectrum, on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act riled New Delhi no end. Publicly, the government and its spokesmen maintained that it was an internal matter of India’s, and that […]

The systematic use of unpredictable violence or terror against individuals, public or governments to attain a political motive is called terrorism. Terrorism, or cult of the gun and killing, is rather a new phenomenon in world history. It has become a global issue and is the most isolated of so many other socio-political evils associated […]

ASHRAF JEHANGIR QAZI The world is closer than ever to apocalypse. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) was founded in 1945 by scientists who developed the atomic bomb. These bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the single greatest act of state terror. Two years later, the BAS created the Doomsday Clock (DDC) “using the imagery […]