Category: Opinion

A country can be likened to a building as one of its smallest units. A building can’t stand without a foundation. A structure can stand tall and proud only if its foundations are strong and stable. One can reach the top of a structure only if its foundations – as […]

The day was very busy and a little stressful, thanks to clients, who expect reports to be submitted yesterday, and the current construction works on a number of prestigious mining projects, located in northern Western Australia, of both national and international importance. I started for home about 10 minutes ago. […]

‘Yesterday morning, I exchanged Indian Republic Day greetings over phone with a Kashmiri Bhatta (Kashmir Pandit) relative in his 70s – a retired senior government officer – who lives in the city of Jammu, located in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. After exchanging initial greetings and some mundane talks, […]

Happy New Year 2020, my global family! I come across many educated people who say religion is the main problem plaguing the earth. As such, they support the idea of banning all religions, albeit hypothetically if it was at all possible. When you engage with such  individuals in more detail, […]

“We Kashmiris may look weary, teary, dreary, shaky, noisy or lazy. That is only a superficial perception, which may fool many. Deep down, we are extremely hardy, tenacious, pugnacious and resilient. Our history is extremely complex. We withstood Alexander’s invasion, as well as repeated invasions of several Mongol chiefs. We […]

“We have been advised universally – supposedly by divine wisdom – through our spiritual texts, self-proclaimed wellness gurus and many wise people – that life means living in the present moment. Constant preaching has been reminding us that, to move ahead in life, we must learn to keep unloading the […]

“Cars waiting at the traffic light, dreaming of Christmas, looking quite weary. Cars running on the road, cursing their impatient drivers, looking quite blurry. Cars crashed on the road, angry at their careless drivers, looking quite teary. Bored frustrated cars, carrying people with jumbo egos, looking quite dreary. Overused cars, […]

“Limited your body may be but not your mind or soul; fly you can anytime, anywhere, like the little bird; grow your wings and away you fly. Open your eyes, look around; all are limited, many feel lonely, many cry; only those with an open mind, unbound and unlimited, are […]

“Every time I lose, I end up on the winning side; in my every loss, I emerge a victor. When I lost my home, I also lost the fear of losing; my loss set me free, I am global. Every time I lost a friendship, I learnt to befriend myself; […]

“Humans come into two main functional types – users and usable commodities. Interestingly, each one of us serves both these functions in many situations of life. We use other people – knowingly or unknowingly – deliberately or inadvertently – and, in turn, are also used by the very same people […]