JK Philosophical Praxis

 The paper attempts to appraise the central cause of Kashmir conflict. It foregrounds India’s military approach to Kashmir and unmasks how this approach is a wrong choice to counter violence, chaos, instability, and radicalization in Kashmir. It also tries to portray how this approach has lead Kashmiri people to existential crisis and other psychological traumas. Hence the paper outlines the phenomenology of dread, fear, insecurity, and uncertainty of contemporary times in which we are living. The present piece of writing is aimed to prompt, prod and nag India to change its approach towards Kashmir and the people of Kashmir. Key words   Militarization , radicalization, freedom, “will to die”                            Kashmir, a place famous for its aesthetic description “paradise on the earth” is also recognized today one among the “conflic...

What anguished me? It comes in manifold ways, be it in the form of terrorism, ethnic cleansing, war, starvation, and the list adds on. However, what troubles my very being is the recent cruel and extremely violent operation led by Myanmar Buddhist unthinking mass for the deliberate murder of minority Muslim community. Whatever were the causes of that violence, I have focused on some crucial and burning existential issues, which have become the cause of intense disappointment and shock for me and for those who I believe have the highest sense of humanity and morality and whose hearts and conscience are not dead. The sight of merciless torture and killing of fellow human beings by their own fellows pollute and cloud my understanding of the very notion of humanity. It is horrifying and painful to see the site of the bodies of deceased being chopped into pieces. Cruelty reigns even more when people are burnt alive, the exceeded cruelty and barbarity engulfs me. However, my mind and...

                                                                                                                                                           The story of Ibrahim (Abraham)  (A.S.)  and Ismael (Issac)  (A.S.)  is a poignant Quranic as well as a Biblical event in which God has sent an angel to Ibrahim ...

In a purely materialistic world, it is difficult to keep one’s inner existence (spirituality) free from the phenomenon of desires and interests that more often becomes impediments in the process of purification of the soul. Fasting is a qualitatively different act which strives for inspiration, purification and God consciousness. It keeps us in a right relationship to all. It is a stance of love, sympathy, goodwill, kindness towards all living beings. Fasting is characterized as a unique spiritual and moral act. It is an act of self-constraint, a conscious and deliberate abstention from food, drink and sexual intercourse and everything that nullifies the fast. During Ramzan an individual who fasts do not eat a grain of food or a drop of water from dawn to dusk, even how delicious the food is or how hungry or thirsty one feels. But it is not only about avoiding food or drink rather it is a practice of self-discipline and self-control. It is the period of meditation, self-restr...