Theoretical Introduction to Power Defining Power: Like many basic ideas and concepts, power is a contested conceptual construct. Understanding power and its covert underpinnings, if not difficult, is to some…
Who is our soulmate? That's a great question! The concept of health being our only soulmate is a metaphorical one and highlighting its unique and irreplaceable role in our lives…
We are living in an age in which clandestine technologies exploit big data and social media, manipulating, polarizing and entrenching opinion. A climate has arisen where trust has evaporated, conspiracy…
Drug addiction is a worldwide problem. It is devastating the youth of the countries at a speed that is unimaginable. Kashmir, over the years, has also seen a huge surge…
There is a kind of inherent bias in men folk against woman. She is socially and linguistically constructed and is negatively, unjustly and unreasonably commented on by the parochial and…
Have you ever pondered over how and why some languages get replaced by other languages? This phenomenon and process of replacement of one language by other one is termed as…
The era which we are living in is an era of ‘posts’. We have a ‘post-truth era’, ‘post-colonial’ era, ‘post-modern era’ ‘era of post-humanism’ and of late we have been…
What is literature? What are its tags or insignias of identification? These questions are often mooted about literature and its artistic merit. Defining literature is a somewhat hopeless and vexing…
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library because library, as we know, is a powerhouse of productive knowledge and vibrating ideas. Maulana Azad Library of…
English language is dubbed with so many sobriquets and epithets. It is enjoying the status of International language, lingua franca, bridge language etc. People crave to learn this because of…
Book reading culture has seen an abrupt and huge slump over the years. The question arises what actually has sounded a death knell to it? The obvious and factual answer…
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. This new civilization brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working,…
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. ---.Samuel Johnson Mother Tongue/Language is without any doubt the identity of any nation.…
We are vessels of very limited content. Not all men can read all books; it is only in a chosen few that any man can find his appointed food. R.L…
Courage is not having the strength to go on-it is going on when you do not have strength. ---Napoleon Bonaparte Drug addiction among youth is alarmingly rampant these days. This…
When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomanic compulsions, in as much as they are going out of their way to construct a flamboyant…
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones: J. Joubert Book buying like other things is a…
Cell phones are so convenient that they’re an inconvenience. Haruki Murakami Technology, as we know, has transformed our life. It has made things easy for us. It has lessened the…
In practice, India has been neither secular nor socialist. It has always functioned as an upper-caste Hindu state. Arundhati Roy The Constitution of India is based on the premise of…
The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people. … Brian Tracy 21st Century has produced lot of political leaders all over the world.…
A daughter still waits for her father to wed her off. A wife searches for her husband. And a mother still pines for her son and waits for him to…
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. James Baldwin Leaving aside the economic and educational position of Muslim minority in India, the question that…
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Michel Foucault Kashmir, as everyone knows, has been at the onslaught of military oppression and atrocities from times aeon. It has witnessed…
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell When the Article 370 was abrogated…
We’re losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press. Roger Ailes Objective and unbiased journalism should be encouraged but in…
Aaj Woh Kashmir Hai Mehkoom-O- Majboor –O- Faqeer Kal Jise Ahl-E- Nazar Khete Thay Iran-E- Sagheer. Sir Allama Iqbal Kashmir has witnessed a cataclysmic change in the last…
India’s Internet shutdown in Kashmir is the longest ever in a democracy.The Washington Post Internet ban in Kashmir is a norm now. Prior to the abrogation of Article…
Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence…
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. Carl Sagan Survival in…
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. Dwight Eisenhower India has earned a bad name for many preposterous moves and prejudiced acts against Muslims. The…
The whole world has come to a pretty pass because of COVID 19 pandemic. The so-called super power countries like China, America, Italy etc. have…
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