Ashik Kabir ashikk992@gmail.com JKLF was composed largely of young Kashmiris, many of whom had received training in Pakistan and were determined to liberate Kashmir and unite it with the Pakistani controlled province of “ Azad Kashmir”. The JKLF initiated a wave of strikes, bombings and assassinations designed to end Indian control of Kashmir. In December…
Ashik Kabir ashikk992@gmail.com Located in the northwest Himalayan ranges of the Indian subcontinent, Jammu and Kashmir is India’s only Muslim preponderant state. It was ruled by Hindu Dogra Maharajas from 1846 to 1947. When the British rule of subcontinent ended creating India and Pakistan, Kashmir remained a matter of dispute between both the countries. The…
Fabia Shahzadi Waking up and getting dressed for work mid-summer often is a sartorial quandary, especially when it comes to wearing anything other than a suit. Now let’s face it, most of us usually dwell in perplexity as to whether it’s acceptable to wear shorts to the office in summer. The very idea of sporting…
Nobonita Chowdhury As much as we might try to avoid the topic, death is inevitable. Yet we try to avoid thinking about it altogether. Most major religions dictate that all men will return to the dirt once they die, regardless of social status. I personally believe that the concept of death has a nice connotation…
In search of Almighty.. An old man was reciting Quran, after his Juhar prayer.
Ishra Chowdhury Mud slinging in politics is nothing new, in fact is expected to a certain degree. We have candidates like Mr. Donald J. Trump, who engineered his entire campaign almost a year ago on the back of one xenophobic, misogynist, sexist, and racist controversial statement over another, and Ex secretary-of-state and former First Lady…
Ashik Kabir Located in the northwest Himalayan ranges of the Indian subcontinent, Jammu and Kashmir is India’s only Muslim preponderant state. It was ruled by Hindu Dogra Maharajas from 1846 to 1947. When the British rule of subcontinent ended creating India and Pakistan, Kashmir remained a matter of dispute between both the countries. The state…
Eshan Maitra So, the other day I was hearing this while passing by elementary school, “Vabi, my boy only can say Dog and Cat. He doesn’t even understand what Kukur-Biral is. Hihi!” Then with some more of such examples like that. Her Son is so bad in Bangla! And She was telling that with such…
Syed Nasir Ershad Some people say that the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election is no longer for Hillary Clinton to lose but for Donald Trump to win. It is not because of a few polls putting the Republican nominee ahead of the Democratic nominee. It is because Hillary remained unexciting. From the voters’ point of view,…
Mohammad Ali Sattar These are trying times for us. Tragedies that befell us in the past were of different nature. Degree of loss and grief were measured on different scales. Hurricanes and deluge, mountain slides, road accidents, river mishaps, death in inferno, building collapses – all has been incidents of regular composition, although many of…