Jerusalema! The song celebrates life and is full of joie de vivre
Asad Mirza Sometimes you are too bogged down by lethargy or feel really unconcerned by the happenings around the world and don’t feel like pounding at your laptop, dishing out highly opinionated pieces on mundane world issues. Perhaps this might be due to the gloomy atmosphere prevailing throughout the world for the last 10 months, […]
The disastrous industry
Abid Hussain Rather Beauty has always attracted the human soul, so everybody tries to look beautiful. It is human nature that everybody tries to look different from others by wearing fashionable clothes and following latest fashion trends. Though female folk is famous for following latest fashion trends and life styles but males are not behind […]
Common sufferings
Syed Mustafa Ahmad Everyone’s story is different from what others had faced. But some things are common in this part of the world. In Jammu and Kashmir, the stories are more or less the same. It is because it is the only UT in the world that has been subjected to the worst kind of […]
Self-inflicting love for security!
Desh Bir At the age of twenty one I joined a job and at fifty eight I retired from the same department, of course with some promotions, in due course. In between came an opportunity to switch over when I was able to crack the old civil services exam in 1978. I did not choose […]
The unparalleled guidance
Tousif Raza Islam is not only the discovery of the purpose of life: it is the materialization of this purpose, it is not mere publicity but is the actualization of publicity. Islam is not logical and philosophical hairsplitting and rationalization: it is the generation of consequences and achievements through practical struggle. Therefore, the thought is […]
The resolve I still maintain
N J Ravi Chander One of the enduring memories of my childhood were those spent in our ancestral home in Fraser Town, Bengaluru, in the heart of the cantonment. Our family of five comprising my parents, two siblings and I moved into this quaint monkey-top bungalow in the early 1960s, a time when the area […]
Dislodging nature
Ishrat Sakii The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard…… Gaylord Nelson As we know that our planet is 4.5billion years old and humans are on this planet since 1,40,000 years. The smartest species on earth too smart […]
A temporary slowdown
K S S Pillai Not long ago, the automobile industry was worried stiff. Factories were shut down due to the pandemic, bringing production to a standstill. The distributors had large stock of unsold vehicles, as people were not in a hurry to upgrade their car to a new model. Political bigwigs, industrial barons, and financial […]
Existentialism and Education
Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat Existentialism is a sort of reaction to traditional philosophy like Idealism, Rationalism, Pragmatism, and Absolutism. Existentialism is therefore more specifically represented as a kind of philosophical movement. The chief pioneers being Soren Kirkegaard, Jean Paul Satre, Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche and others. While traditional philosophical thoughts speculated about essence of matter and human […]
Seniors need more care and love
Mohammad Hussain Khan Human life can be divided into three principal phases- Childhood, Youth and Old age. The childhood is the supreme period as it is free from worries. The youth is full of enthusiasm, power and health. The old age is associated with maturity, wisdom and ability to understand life better. This is the […]