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Author: Adfar Shah
Company: Doctoral Scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia,New Delh
Region: Kashmir Valley and New Delhi,India.
Memorable Quote 1: Never Live with the Burden what others say or feel about you.Live the way you think better for yourself.
Memorable Quote 2: Research InThird World is the folly of the Oppressed (Adfar Shah)
Author Comment / Biography:
Adfar Shah shuttles between New Delhi and Kashmir writing on South Asian societies and Politics for several publications besides Amazons.com like Eurasia Review, Analyst World, South Asian Idea, Countercurrents, Kashmir Monitor, Kashmir Images,Kashmir Times and other International web portals and newspapers. Adfar is a Sociologist and senior research fellow (at SNCWS, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi) who continues to understand the Gender question, South Asian politics, Kashmir in conflict, Military sociology and Indian Military Apparatus, Af-Pak strain and Muslim identity issues. Contact him at adfer.syed@gmail.com
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1. December 16,Delhi Rape-Murder Horror-Justice Finally Delivered
October 08, 2013
End of a Tragedy: The Justice Finally Delivered The death sentence passed for the convicts is widely welcomed however with lots of fresh debates upon the relationship between capital punishment and the crime rate that shows an increasing trend. I believe every rape cas...
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2. Iqbal's Peer-i-Rumi
December 10, 2012
Hazrat Molvi is Maulana Rume. Allama treasured Rumi profoundly not for his poetry based on knowledge, philosophy of universe but for his Kalam based on love (Ishq) .Otherwise Allama was also influenced and impressed with western thinkers like Nietzsche, Bergson, etc,. But got satisfying answers from...
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3. Opposing Rushdie's India Arrival
June 12, 2012
Opposition to Salman Rushdie’s visit to Jaipur is genuine and certainly was a need of the hour. The blasphemous writer Salman Rushdie, though having the ‘Sir’ title for his shameless art in the west, deserves exile and opposition from every believer irrespective of sect, faith, affiliation or religi...
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4. When I crossed Banihal tunnel for Education
May 23, 2012
When I say academia has degenerated into a mafia, particularly in third world countries, one of my teachers is quick to suggest that it was always so. There is nothing like a negative approach or unenthusiastic argument that I am here to propagate against any particular university or educational ins...
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5. I Wish We Had A Home!
May 22, 2012
uncle’s house though was not less than a big magnificent bungalow that sheltered us through all our hard times, I, however, felt a desperate need for a home exclusively of our own. I used to imagine its premises, colour, look, design, furnishing, bedrooms, decorations, wall hangings, windows, curta...
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6. Disasters:Do We Learn Any Lessons?
April 29, 2012
The recent windstorm that hit the valley of Kashmir besides other parts of the state was braved by the valley people who saw it devastating over 15000 houses besides killing one person. The wave with an average speed of 24.7 knots that reached maximum speed of 40 knots raised the minimum temperature...
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7. Contextualizing Modernization and Ethics in Kashmir
January 22, 2012
Amir Suhail/ Adfar Rashid Shah
“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world” (Albert Camus).
In the plethora of creations that abound this planet, it has been unanimously agreed upon that man occupies prestigious and prominent pedestal, not because of his might...
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8. Happy work culture
January 05, 2012
The state of today’s ailing work culture has turned a tea gossip and is much discussed everywhere, people talking about its ramifications on the social structure, administration and general common psyche. Though we all have developed a consciousness of chastising this deadly ebb tide situation of ...
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9. Fallout of Continued Use of the AFSPA
January 05, 2012
Gautam Navlakha’s commentary titled, ‘On Ending the War against Our Own People’, (VOL 46 No. 08 February, 19 - February 25, 2011), made a good read. Yes, AFSPA has proved to be a mistake and is simply a war perpetrated by the country against its own people.though it is a shield to a Jawan and he ...
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10. Extremism of All Colours
January 05, 2012
Juli Gittinger’s,"Saffron Terror: Splinter or Symptom"(Issue : VOL 46 No. 37 September 10 - September 16, 2011) made an interesting reading. The author had argued the hardcore reality beset to the Indian society today that too in a simpler tune. Yes India’s age old pluralistic but Unitarian etho...
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