The Story That Our Handicrafts Tell About Their Demise
Socio-culturally and economically, Kashmir’s handicrafts are not only its pride but also bread and butter for umpteen peoples. People involved in this trade must not kill it.
A Case for Ethical Shopping
What will the daily wage of vulnerable people do? In the context of Kashmir, can society help, while maintaining their dignity and even pride? A lot, is the answer. In the context of Kashmir which is neither a productive economy nor an advanced one, consumption is the name of the game.
Manne Kaak, the Obscure, Died of Covid. But What Killed Him?
Did Manne Kaak really die of Covid? Was it trials and tribulations that killed him? Or did the bottled up stress that he as a proud man of dignity hid, took his life? Did stress, mostly financial and largely emotional, diminish his executive functions and thereby worsen his chances at life?
On Education: A One -off Event or an Open -Ended Journey?
A positive return on skill development then warrants a philosophical approach and premise that can only be attained through vigorous ,open ended education, not merely formally but on a self inspired basis. But, there is a dark side here: highly educated individuals can get alienated from their respective societies.
The Incoherence of Mustafa Akyol's 'Ethical Objectivism'?
The world, defined as it is by dazzling and staggering diversity is a beautiful place to know, engage with and understand. It is here rather than elsewhere that Muslims have chosen to abdicate their responsibility and closed themselves.
Covid Challenge 2.0: Time for Society to Rise to the Occasion
Parsed and pared to essence, it means attempting to feel the pain of others as one’s own. By way of a digression here, it must be pointed out the Covid 19 and its mutant variants are totally and absolutely non-discriminatory: the rich, the poor.
Marketing Rendezvous: Kashmiri Tujji Wallas and Apple's Iphones
This is the genius of Apple’s late Steve Jobs and this is what connects the Tujji walla and Iphones. Both are about marketing and branding. The difference is that of scale, sophistication and technology.
Why I Bemoan the Loss of Our Downtown
Warped and flawed modernization has led to the demolition of the traditional housing structures of downtown giving way to ugly, concrete, incoherent blobs.
The Lure of Dishonesty and Rewards of Ethics
Say, if corruption is widespread and acceptable, what does the ethical or the moral person do? Be part of the game, so to speak and move on or be an outlier seen as an oddball by the rest?
Give People Credit
All in all, before the liquidity crisis in Kashmir morphs into a full-fledged insolvency crisis, J&K Bank must rise to the occasion and create conditions for the economic uplift of the society. Besides inhering in the bank’s charter and remit, this particular institution has a duty to perform.
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