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Preference For Tech Over Ramzan Wake-Up Calls Signal The Decline Of Sahar Khans
Mehroob Mushtaq & Numan Bhat SRINAGAR: In the early morning, when Kashmir is cloaked in darkness and its residents are sound asleep, the sound of drums pierces ...
The Mango Merger of Peace: Bridging Borders With Seeds of ‘Dosti’
“Peace activists from both nations have embarked on a botanical venture, marrying the distinct mango varieties of their lands: Pakistan’s Chausa with India’s Ke...
Cold Reflections on Climate Change and Childhood Memories
Nidhi Jamwal* Does the Camel’s Back have no snow this winter – this question has been gnawing at me since the day (January 16, to be precise) I reported on the ...
The Semal Spring & The Rooh Afza Summer
“Will climate change obliterate my childhood memories of the flaming Semal tree and the sticky Rooh Afza, and all I will have left are photographs taken on my m...
If It Is Wednesday It MUST Be Ameen Sayani
“He rode the air waves like a knight on a charger, and people across the country huddled next to the radio, waiting for Ameen Sayani to pick and choose songs of...
By Syed Junaid Hashmi
Ravaged by conflict, traumatized by lack of accountability and strangled by social taboos, people in Jammu and Kashmiri have been both witness to and victims of...
Your Monsoon Diet As Per Ayurveda
By Keshava Panikkar One's idea of ideal food for the monsoon would be, sitting in the verandah, enjoying a plate of hot bajjias- potato,onion & brinjal, as the ...
Traitors Of India
Topical 1 for the 23rd June 2007- the 250th anniversary of the battle of Plassey. By K.D.L.Khan The word Namakharam-literally Untrue to the Salt is a very deris...
How Rural India Forecasts The Monsoon
By K.D.L. Khan There is close to Rs. 3,000 crore riding on the rains in Mumbai this year. Bookies have accepted bets worth Rs. 3,000 crore on the date of the ar...
India's Smallest Hill Railway Completes 100 Years
By Arvind Mahapatra FOR over a century now, hill railways, or "toy trains" as they are popularly known, have been the delight of many tourists to India. Complet...
Prof. Ram Nath Shastri-a legend-III
...sorrow never comes too late.... As a mark of tribute to Prof. Ram Nath Shastri, who passed away on March 8, 2009, we're republishing his interview conducted ...
Kantha Kismet: Sewing Empowerment Dreams
Ajitha Menon As a girl of nine, Shamlu Dudeja remembers embroidering paisleys on tea pot covers under the tutelage of a Bengali crafts teacher in Delhi. Little ...
-Romana Siddiqu
"Benazir" I have yet to wail bellyful, To mourn the death of my sister, Who was a great woman of the world, And the tallest leader of my neighbour. She was the ...
-Ashiq Hussain Rather,
Shinal, Doda. The Cloak-III Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol At length one of the officials, a sub-chief probably, in order to show that he was not at all proud, and o...
Four Temples On Ramnavami
Dhananjaya Bhat Ramnavami would be with us on 3rd April 2009, and most of us would be going to Sri Rama temples to worship the Maryada Purusha of Hinduism. The ...
Bank Your Salvation On Ram Nam
Shekher Phadnis There is only one mantras, in the whole of Hindu religious tradition, which gets the epithet 'taaraka' (that which can ferry you across); and th...
Winter Chill Plays Truant: Nostalgia Strikes Kashmiris
By Shabir Dar With day and night tempera tures in the Valley above normal people are missing the winter chill. Experts believe it as a radical shift in the wint...
Bohras-India's Most Orthodox/Progressive Muslim Sect.
By K.D.L.Khan Bohra muslim women wear the traditional rida ( a burqa -like coloured embroidered garment), but that does not stop them from riding a scooter. or ...
The Battle For Basmati
By Dhananjaya Bhat The world production of Basmati rice, solely the world monopoly of India and Pakistan is said to be about four million tons in 2005-06, worth...
"No Indians Allowed" Hotels Of India
By John Kuriakose For the 'back pack' variety of foreign tourists, India with its exotic locations and cities is a great lure. Over the years the Indian hotels ...