Sanely Written
Reading Time: 4 minutesUnlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. Karl R. Popper Beneath the towering pines and snow-clad […]
Reading Time: 8 minutes ‘Gar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast’ If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here. Moving south, looking back at your burning house with a heart colder than Srinagar’s snow, you asked, ‘Where is that paradise? Where? Where? Where?’ […]
Reading Time: 8 minutesJanuary 19, 1990. Imagine a night in Srinagar, when the last quarter of the moon shone with a tint of silver and you realised that it was just another cold night in your hometown. You were in your bed and your family in other rooms of the house. Recent days were quite unpleasant and there […]