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A P J Abdul Kalam with children: an exhibit from the National memorial at Rameshwaram

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APJ Abdul Kalam's memorial is the new pilgrimage site in Rameshwaram

Indian troops celebrating victory at a Kargil peak during the war

Why Pakistani leaders call Kargil operation 'Musharraf’s misadventure?'

A foreign delegate to G-20 meet enjoying a Shikara ride in Dal Lake (Pictures credit Basit Zargar)

Where did Hurriyat vanish to pave way for peace in Kashmir?

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Polls saw Omar Abdullah's rise as a leader but being CM of JK is no bed of roses

Aasha Khosa Omar Abdullah’s career as a politician took off at a high pitch – he almost walked into the Parliament of India straight from his drawing room as he effortlessly won the 1998 Lok Sabha election from Srinagar. A business management graduate, the 28-year-old Omar was offered what is a dream job for most people; Atal Bihari Vajpayee made him a Minister of State in his cabinet; first in charge of commerce and trade and ...

Navratri: Festival that reminds society of Indian women's power

Aasha Khosa Even atheists and agnostics would agree that Navratri, the nine-day festival celebrating the divine feminine energy called Shakti, or Maa Durga, is an empowering tool for Indian women and no other civilization or culture offers it to them. The festival, celebrated differently across India – the most festive celebrations happen in West Bengal and some other Eastern parts of India – is symbolically and figurativel...

400 Parsis born in 10 years yet more needed for community's survival

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi It’s one of the paradoxes of India that in a country with the largest population, the state is funding the birth of children. The generous funding is offered to Parsis, one of the most influential yet minuscule ethnoreligious communities with its origins in Iran, as its population has been on a fast decline for decades and reached the levels where the community is facing threat of extinction. The scheme call...

J&K Assembly Polls: Iltija, Sakina stand out as gutsy Kashmiri women leaders

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi This is the story of two Muslim women who are trying their luck in the Assembly elections in South Kashmir which along with adjoining areas of Jammu goes to the polls on September 18 in the first phase. Both are seeking votes in the name of legacy but have joined the male-dominated political arena under different and contrasting circumstances. The women are Iltija Mufti, PDP candidate from Bijbehara, who is seekin...

J&K Assembly Polls: Iltija, Sakina stand out as gutsy Kashmiri women leaders

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi This is the story of two Muslim women who are trying their luck in the Assembly elections in South Kashmir which along with adjoining areas of Jammu goes to the polls on September 18 in the first phase. Both are seeking votes in the name of legacy but have joined the male-dominated political arena under different and contrasting circumstances. The women are Iltija Mufti, PDP candidate from Bijbehara, who is seekin...

J&K Assembly will have a five-year term and it's a big change

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The forthcoming elections in J&K will lead to the forming of the Legislative Assembly with a five-year term. This is a big change as J&K was India’s only State where the Assembly enjoyed a six-year term for 49 years. This bizarre rule was because of the privileges enjoyed by J&K under the cover of Article 370 of the Indian constitution and often misused to serve the vested interests and political...

How Mudasir Dar changed the terror-hub image of 5 Pulwama villages

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi The abolition of Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir five years ago gave a fillip to the efforts of young Kashmiris like Mudasir Dar of Pulwama in bringing about a change on the ground by persuading the youth to shun the path of violence. Mudasir Dar, 27, of village Mugalpora, on the outskirts of South Kashmir’s Pulwama town, launched his mission to erase the image of Pulwama as a ...

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How a Haryana couple discovered the spiritual grandeur of APJ Abdul Kalam's personality

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi On the death anniversary of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the Sonepat couple Suman and Diwan Arora remember their visit to his hometown Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu where they came in touch with the grandeur of his personality. It was one and a hald year ago that the Aroras had embarked on a pilgrimage to one of the holiest sites of Hindus not knowing that their journey would also take them to another sacred place – a m...

Kargil War: Pak authors blast Army Chief Musharraf for misadventure

Aasha Khosa It was 25 years ago that Pakistan waged yet another misadventure against India to wrest Kashmir. This time, it ventured into the barren and icy heights of Kargil, far away from Kashmir. The incursion turned out to be the last straw on Pakistan's credibility in the eyes of India, and the world realized the catastrophic implications of Islamabad’s obsession with J&K. Further, the conflict exposed Pakistan&#...

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Young Scientist Muneer Khan runs online portal for underprivileged innovators of India

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi A farmer can insert a pencil-like device in the soil of his field; the reading mapped through a mobile app will show minerals in it. He would quickly know whether the soil is acidic or alkaline; which mineral is missing or deficit ior which is surplus and then tackle the situation with fertilizers for a good yield. This simple mineral-reading device was developed by Muneer Khan, a scientist who was recently confer...

What inspired Chanderbhan Khayal to pen world's longest poem on Prophet Muhammad

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Chanderbhan Khayal, a well-known name in the annals of Urdu literature, a Shatihya Akademy awardee, and author of 13 books, is the only person in the world to have penned a ballad in honor of the founder of Islam Prophet Muhammad. The Book, Laulak, comprises 400 couplets on 100 pages and has won him accolades and honours worldwide. What made Chanderbhan Khayal, a native of village Babai Basti in the Hoshangabad (s...

Why did the Reasi terror attack ring alarm bells in Delhi?

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Jammu, the other part of (Jammu and) Kashmir that rarely makes headlines, has gained the attention of the Narendra Modi government for its high vulnerability to terrorist attacks. In hindsight, one can feel bad that it came after nine pilgrims died in a terrorist attack on the bus that was carrying them and others from the cave shrine of Shiv Khori. In no time, Home Minister Amit Shah called the heads of Nat...

POJK people are no longer ready to put up with Pak's delusionary Kashmir policy

Aasha Khosa Na Khuda hi mila, Na visal-e-Sanam; Na Idhar ke rahe, Na udhar ke rahey`` (I didn’t get to meet the God; nor did I meet my beloved; I was left with being neither here nor there). This anonymous and popular Urdu couplet sums up the dilemma of the people of the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). This is not my opinion but what a young, educated, and well-established Muzaffarabad resident to...

Lok Sabha elections: No candidate in fray, yet BJP dominates campaign narrative in Kashmir

Aasha Khosa The Bhartiya Janata Party’s absence from the election scene in Kashmir where it has not fielded candidates on the three Lok Sabha seats is not being missed as the campaigning by main contestants is dominated by reference to the saffron party. More than calming the key contestants, its absence from the election scene has left some of them paranoid as they accuse each ot...

Muslims must focus on cracking non-UPSC exams for govt. jobs: Zafar Mahmood

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Dr. Syed Zafar Mahmood, President of the Zakat Foundation of India, should be a happy man since 24 of the 100 Muslim men and women whom his organization gave scholarships for coaching for the coveted Civil Services examination for the year 2023, have made it. Of the 50 Muslims selected for the Indian Civil and allied services for 2023 the result of which was declared last week, 24 were sponsored by the ZFI. This i...

Why Dhanak founder Asif Iqbal has to buy jhumkas for Eid

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Asif Iqbal, the founder of Dhanak of Humanity, an NGO that works with authorities to help young couples hounded by their families for interfaith or inter-caste marriage, says for him Eid-ul-Fitr is about meeting his family, visiting friends, and going to the mosque for prayers with his father and brother. However, this Eid, his teenage daughter has posed him a challenge. “This time, my elder one wants ...

Holi was all about colours, masti, mithia, singing and dancing: Classical singer Hameed Khan

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Hori folksongs are sung around the festival of colours, Holi, which falls on Monday, March 25, and these offer an opportunity for Indian classical singers to sing for the masses. According to Mohammad Hameed Khan, a classical singer specializing in Khayal gayaki, “The genre of Hori songs is all about Lord Krishna and Lord Shiva, and paeans to their ways of playing with colours and the victory over evil.” ...

We are loyal Indians: kin of Kashmiri secessionists

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi If there could be one stark parameter of the changed ecosystem in Kashmir and an endgame for Pakistan, it has to be the trend of notices published by the children and grandchildren of Kashmiri separatist leaders in the local English and Urdu newspapers announcing they are “loyal citizens of India.” Two such public notices recently published are from Sama Shabir Shah, the elder of the two daughter...

Why Shahpur Kandi dam is not India’s water terrorism against Pakistan

Aasha Khosa As a young journalist, I have walked with Veteran Maj Gen (Retd) Govanrdhan Singh Jamwal across Jammu’s Kandi areas of Kathua and Samba district bordering the fertile plains of Punjab. Nothing much grew on the land due to non-existent irrigation canals; one could see thorny bushes resembling those growing in deserts popping out of the arid land here and there. People stoically complained of water scarcity and despondency ...

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Soldiering is not about picking a gun and firing: Syed Ata Hasnain

Aasha Khosa/New Delhi Lt Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hasnain is one of the most expressive Army veterans. He speaks on issues of India’s internal security and explains strategic issues in the common man’s language. General Officers like Hasnain live up to the image of a quintessential soldier who is always on duty. As a member of the National Disaster Management Authority, he was recently the communication point person of the govern...

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