On January 5, this year, the University of California San Diegoโs Critical Gender Studies Program disaffiliated from Dr Saiba Varma, Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department and a former CGS Executive Committee member and Faculty Affiliate, saying that she had engaged in a serious ethical and political breach in her research practices.ย SRINAGAR โ Assistant…
Document is not rationally prepared, a netizen argues, it demonstrates an unscientific approach. Apart from political parties, Kashmiri netizens are arguing that the draft proposed by the Delimitation Commission is far from reality, given the geographical inaccuracies with the unnatural merger of areas. Document is not rationally prepared, argues netizen Ibrahim Javaid Shah. โIt demonstrates…
The region enjoyed the constitutional guarantees under the abrogated Articles 370 and 35-A of the Indian constitution. With the Articles gone, more and more people and parties are demanding constitutional guarantees and a full-fledged statehood. SRINAGAR โ An unprecedented shutdown is being observed in the Union Territory of Ladakh, a division of the erstwhile state…
My country still churns poetry out of mutilated migrant labourers.The skeletal remnants of a metropolitan do not stir the nationโs conscience.Death lies snuggled in the palms of my state,destruction kneaded on the cold skies.Humans lie like scattered petals on roads and roofs.Artistic stimulation for some.Ghost buildings are standing like cardboard boxes,perforated by the needles of…
Many of us are wandering the earth, accomplished in many ways, capable of fulfilment at points, but with a fundamental wound that stops us from becoming who we might be: we donโt quite know who we are. It isnโt, of course, that we canโt remember the basics of our biographies. Weโre unsure around two things…
Sri Aurobindo, in his seminal essay The Future of Poetry, observes that “Truth of poetry is not truth of philosophy or truth of science or truth of religion only because it is another way of self-expression of infinite Truth so distinct that it appears to give quite another face of things and reveal quite another…
Jerusalem or al-Quds is one of the three holiest sites in Islam, the reference of which has been found both in ambiguous and in unambiguous terms; both in The Holy Quran and in the Hadith literature. The city has been in the centre of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. I would attempt to see the โHoly…
Today, I write to you from a faraway land I don’t know when my words will reach you, If you’ll get to read my letters or my songs. I hear rumours of men marching towards your city Men with guns and laathis and power; Power that controls us, tortures us, leaves us powerless in our…