Tejinder sodhi Baramulla: environmental activists warn that wetland in Kashmir are rapidly shrinking due to official apathy and rampant encroachment- endangering thousand of animals and migratory birds. A billboard outside Haigam conservation reserve, a premier wetland in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district that is now plagued by massive siltation and encroachment reads, “In the past 50 years, two third of Kashmir’s wetland have vanished. Silt has reduced the Haigam wetland to almost h...
Contractual Lecturers or contractors, discrimination at Par Tejinder sodhi Baramulla, July 18:“Take care to get what you like or you would be forced to like what you get” this saying is fit for the present helpless contractual lecture’s community of the state. Playing hides and seeks with lives of contractual lectures, the present coalition by making sky touching claims about the improving educational scenario in government institutions, render lives of both the lectures and stud...
Tejinder sodhi Uri: Abdul Rahman, a villager of Silkot, uri has to walk seven kilometer up and down the mountains and ask permission from soldiers at PP post in Uri to meet his daughter Haja Begum who lives on the other side of the barbed fence erected by the security agencies to seal the line of control against infiltration. A village of 29 families, Silkot, has been divided into four halves by the fencing which has cost the central government a whopping 300 million dollars. “First in 1...
Tejinder sodhi Mufti government’s yet another dream that is of controlling corruption in the state remained a dream only and nothing much was done to control this social evil as was said in the beginning of the Mufti government’s emergence. Corruption has scattered its roots such long that it has made everyone corrupt, right from a class fourth employee to a gazetted officer, from a farmer and a shopkeeper who steal electricity to the housewife who bribes the electricity department worker ...
Tejinder sodhi ‘Literacy is not intended to make lawyers or clergymen; soldiers or masters, farmers or artisans but to carve a human being capable of judging, justifying and living with honor and dignity.’ Our constitution has enunciated the following Directive Principle of the state policy regarding universalization of elementary education “The sate shall endeavor to provide, within a period of ten years from the commencement of this constitution, for free and compulsory education for...
Tejinder sodhi Nowgam Sector (kupawara): Rajesh Kumar, an Indian soldier posted on the frontline in Kashmir has been sleeping better over the last few months. The guns on one of the world’s most militarized borders are silent for the first time in years after India and Pakistan agreed to a cease fire in November. And earlier this year, army engineers fenced a cease fire line in Kumar’s area to prevent incursion by militants. “It has made a big difference. We know the fence won’t allow t...
Tejinder sodhi Nowgam Sector (kupawara): Rajesh Kumar, an Indian soldier posted on the frontline in Kashmir has been sleeping better over the last few months. The guns on one of the world’s most militarized borders are silent for the first time in years after India and Pakistan agreed to a cease fire in November. And earlier this year, army engineers fenced a cease fire line in Kumar’s area to prevent incursion by militants. “It has made a big difference. We know the fence won’t allow t...
Tejinder sodhi The valley of Kashmir, a multicultural society, ruled by many foreign rulers has been the center of confluence of cultural and heritage of the valley has been in a constant state of flux. Being hub of cultural and social activity in the past it has been called the ‘seat of learning of the east’. So, not only due to its geographic location but also due to its rich cultural heritage and a glorious past, Kashmir is known as the ‘crown of India’. Though surrounded by lofty m...
Tejinder sodhi Baramulla: A ray of hope lit in her eyes when after 14 long years of marriage; doctors told her that she is Pregnant. Razia (name changed) who hails from a far off village of Badrah in district Baramulla was married to a handicapped person in the 1989. For last 14 years she was never pregnant and this time luckily she became pregnant. On hearing this news all the members of Razia’s family rejoiced and celebrated. But the family was not aware that this is only a happiness th...
Ansari is a Lesser Evil But Kashmir is for Kashmiris, says Amanullah Khan By Pawan Bali AMANULLAH KHAN heads the Pakistan-based Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. He played an important role in organizing the ongoing armed struggle in Kashmir. in fact he was the man who would receive Kashmiri boys, look them after, once they crossed the LoC, that divides Kashmir into two halves, and then arrange their return from there along arms and ammunition. Almost all the senior commanders, many of ...
Tejinder sodhi Srinagar: Many people in the summer capital of the sate blame that the official vehicles carrying flickering red lights atop their roofs have not only become a nuisance for commoners but a threat top the security and dignity of the people. Contrary to the chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s claim of transparent and responsive government bringing in austerity measures, the ever swelling official vehicles carrying flickering red lights atop their roofs have resulted in ca...
Tejinder sodhi Baramulla: Grenade blasts are common in Kashmir, nothing new when people die. Many a times high profile people are targeted but common kashmiri gets killed, Sheeri, May 10: From distance Parvaiz Ahmad Rather, looked like he was resting with much comfort, spread arms, half closed eyes, unleashed hair, flattened body under red stains of blood and just a little too pale. As one came closer, one realized with the picture and footage that 37-year-old Parvaiz was laying in th...
Tejinder sodhi Life on earth was, is and will remain directly dependent on its surroundings. But the scare attention paid by the humans to their environment has led to devastating ramifications, upsetting the fragile ecological balance. Ever increasing population has drastically defaced the earth and endangered the very existence of humanity. Un-doubted, as of human being, nobody has emerged on the earth just to be troubled by the self. Environmental degradation is global and not pe...
Tejinder sodhi Life on earth was, is and will remain directly dependent on its surroundings. But the scare attention paid by the humans to their environment has led to devastating ramifications, upsetting the fragile ecological balance. Ever increasing population has drastically defaced the earth and endangered the very existence of humanity. Un-doubted, as of human being, nobody has emerged on the earth just to be troubled by the self. Environmental degradation is global and not pe...