salman Khan

The paper explores Rudyard Kipling’s perspective on the importance of railways in India which is the theme of some of his poetic and prose work. Coupled with this, an overview of the importance of railways and its military, economic and social aspects in Central Asia, in the backdrop of the Great Game of the 19th Century between Russia and Britain is also offered. This study attempts to correlate the significance of the Trans-Caspian Railway (TCR), founded in 1879 and the North Western State Railway in British India formed seven years later in 1886. It also takes into account the railways’ cultural importance for the people of Central Asia. The most important aspect of the subject under assessment is how the construction of railway lines worked as a device and a tool to strengthen the hold of both the colonizing powers. It is in this context that the poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) glorified the benefits of Indian railways as a stabilizing factor for the strength of th...

In recent weeks a raging economic and political war getting heated between India and Pakistan as India mischiefly lodge an application to the European Union Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) commonly known as Geographical Indication (GI) for the exclusive claim of Basmati as Indian grown rice which will, in turn, give India rights to export basmati rice to European Union and Pakistani’s rice exporters will be barred to access EU lucrative market for their Basmati rice export if India successful in registering the Basmati rice as their geographical indication products with EU GIs commission for registration.
The size of Indian rice export is over 4.4 million tons value at US$ 6.6 billion compared to Pakistan 300,000 tons estimated export value of US$2.2 billion. The basmati rice industry is one that Pakistan heavily contributes to and relies on. Pakistan contributes to 35% of global basmati rice exports and its trade to the EU has grown from 120,000 tons in 2017 to 300,000 tons in 2019. As a whole 40% of Pakistan’s workers work in agriculture, with rice accounting for 20% of agricultural land. India exported 4.4 million tons of basmati rice between 2019 and 2020, which made up 65% of global basmati rice exports.
The problem arises as in recent years Indian Basmati export was declining due to failure to comply with EU phytosanitary import regulation and also the crop protection pesticide used by Indian farmer was not accepted by EU food and drink importation rules. While Pakistan which is a much smaller producer of Basmati rice compare to India have tighter production and export regulation and meeting EU standards for importation increase her market share into the EU market. Technically Indian regulatory bodies should e looking into the increase the hygiene standard and pesticide control of the Basmati rice production they rather took a deceitful route to eliminate and marginalised Pakistan basmati rice export to the EU by quietly lodging an application for Basmati rice production exclusivity rights to EU GI commission for registration.  The EU GIs has given both countries to resolve this matter amicably by September 2021.

The Kashmir dispute is the oldest unresolved item on the UN agenda. There are 58 UNSC resolutions in connection to the Kashmir dispute. The Kashmir conflict has been seen as a bone of contention in the India-Pakistan relationship ever since the ‘birth’ of the two states in 1947. It has also played a substantial role in border geopolitical disputes between India and China over Aksai Chin (a portion of Kashmir). Kashmir lies between three of the most populous countries of the world: India, China and Pakistan, covering a land mass of over 86,000 square kilometres – almost the size of the UK, and inhabiting over 17 million people (Lamy, Baylis & Smith, 2006: 6).

The treaty of Amritsar and Lahore in 1847  has been identified as the start of the dispute, and since the arrival of Indian forces in Kashmir on 27 October 1947, the territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been divided by the LoC between the two territories, administered by Pakistan on the one side and India on the other (Lamb, 1991: 6). India and Pakistan have failed to reach an equitable agreement regarding the disputed territory of Kashmir. Instead, they have fought three wars (1948, 1965, and 1971), and almost had a nuclear showdown in 1999 known as the Kargil War. There have been several UN-mandated ceasefires over Kashmir disputes (1949 and 1965) (Wheeler, 2010: 319-344). Most recently, after a suicide attack in the Pulwana region (a district of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir) on 14 February 2019, in which 40 Indian paramilitary police were killed; the world witnessed another stand-off between the two nuclear arch-rivals (Herrera, 2019).

An honest and critical analysis of India’s failure in Kashmir, despite 900,000 Indian armies desperately trying to control 14 million Kashmiris through most brute martial law and curfew, since 1947. Over 100,000 Kashmiris had been killed and thousands of political prisoners languishing in jail (UN Human right report on India, 2018-2019) despite India desperately clinching to Kashmir by its last thread. The Kashmiris quest for right of self-determination as enshrined in UNSC resolution continued. For last 73 years Kashmiri is under perpetual curfew with total suspension of Human and civil rights, there is no freedom of expression, movement and association (Amnesty international report on India, 2019). In a tyrannical attempt by Modi government Amnesty international offices were forcefully closed in India in September 2020. This an open indictment for all civilized people of the India and world and all civilized people of the world must boycott India for its tyranny and fascist-like unilateralism. The writer has critically analysed the history of Kashmir in post-India and Pakistan to investigate the failure of India in Kashmir and how India has lost Kashmir.

From Nouvelle cuisine to Cuisine Naturelle, Fusion Cuisines to Molecular Gastronomy now welcome to the world of Coronagastronomy to COVID-cuisine. let's be ready and have a brave heart to be getting used to the new terms and trend in food and beverages industry like Coronagastronomy to COVID-cuisine and COVID19 certified kitchens rather than HACCP/Halal/Kosher approved kitchen. Salman Khan a researcher and eLearning HOD at HTA School of Culinary Art explores and predicts the emerging trends in post COVID19 lockdown era. The chef will be hard at work to design new menus aiming to provide nutritionally immune-boosting dishes rather just having exotic spices and ingredient listing on menus to impress their decreeing clients. It is hard to envisage what nightlife would look like in trendy Melville or Parkhurst hustling and bustling high streets full of cosmopolitan restaurants like "via del ristorante in Italia". Restaurateurs are getting COVID19 ready workplace and training their staff with new regulations and new norms. The social distancing dining and wining will emerge soon as the new norm and countries like Sweden and Norway have already install see-through cubical those fully fogged and disinfected ready for customer use and gets sterilized after every sitting. Waiters will bring food and beverages on extending trays wearing a face shield, PPC and whereas customers will help themselves and all disposable crockery and cutlery which are made up of high-density plastic. The customer might have an option to bring their metal straws and cutlery. Chef and restaurant manager are busy designing menus base on foods high in zinc include oysters, beef, chicken, tofu, pork, nuts, seeds, lentils, yoghurt, oatmeal, and mushrooms pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, cashews, sunflower seeds, pecans, chia seeds, flax seeds, brazil nuts, and almonds. The Vegan and vegetarian sources of zinc include fortified cereals, wheat germ, tofu, lentils, yoghurt, oatmeal, wild rice, squash seeds, and milk to maintain the biovitality of zinc intake daily value (DV) for Zinc is 11mg. These newly nutritional and immune boosters' menus will the foundation of COVID-cuisine or Coronagastromony. Chef has to use a bit of creativity and innovation to craft dishes those are rich in nutrition, immunes building but still be appealing and appetizing, I am

In June 2017, Indian soldiers in Sikkim took Chinese border guards completely by surprise when they crossed into Bhutan and physically blocked the Chinese road construction crew from extending a track into disputed territory. Eventually, hundreds of Indian soldiers stood face-to-face with as many Chinese for over two months, before New Delhi and Beijing negotiated a mutual withdrawal that saved face for the Chinese.  Today, it is the Indians who have been taken by surprise. In the third week of April, Indian border forces in Ladakh observed regular Chinese forces on the Line.
India and China share one of the world's longest land borders. In 1962, the two countries engaged in a bloody Himalayan border war, and tensions have continued to break out there sporadically in the decades since.
Last month, an aggressive cross-border skirmish between Chinese and Indian forces resulted in minor injuries to troops. The incident has been followed in recent weeks by unconfirmed reports of tensions in the mountainous area, though neither side had publicly acknowledged anything out of the ordinary.

In June 2017, Indian soldiers in Sikkim took Chinese border guards completely by surprise when they crossed into Bhutan and physically blocked the Chinese road construction crew from extending a track into disputed territory. Eventually, hundreds of Indian soldiers stood face-to-face with as many Chinese for over two months, before New Delhi and Beijing negotiated a mutual withdrawal that saved face for the Chinese.  Today, it is the Indians who have been taken by surprise. In the third week of April, Indian border forces in Ladakh observed regular Chinese forces on the Line.
India and China share one of the world's longest land borders. In 1962, the two countries engaged in a bloody Himalayan border war, and tensions have continued to break out there sporadically in the decades since.
Last month, an aggressive cross-border skirmish between Chinese and Indian forces resulted in minor injuries to troops. The incident has been followed in recent weeks by unconfirmed reports of tensions in the mountainous area, though neither side had publicly acknowledged anything out of the ordinary.

Russell Tribunal on Kashmir in Sarajevo, Bosnia on December 17-19, 2021. Together, this tribunal aims to highlight the grave crimes against humanity, including genocide, that are occurring in the Indian occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The seriousness of these crimes is what motivated us to bring this to the attention of the world, since it is a direct threat to global peace.

This foundational international event, the first of many tribunals being planned over the coming years, aims to set the stage for exposing the seriousness of the Kashmir conflict. More specifically, the focus of the tribunal will be on 4 thematic areas: (a) Genocide, including a discussion on the Jammu Genocide in which an estimated 230,000 - 500,000 people were killed. (b) De-Colonization, Kashmir is not a secessionist/separatist movement, but a de-colonial movement; (c) Settler-Colonialism (landgrabs, coercive patriotism etc); (d) Crimes Against Humanity and Nuclear War - mass graves, rape as a weapon of war, and the ever present threat of nuclear war in this contested region.

This tribunal brings together key global personalities, academics and celebrities to highlight the ongoing genocide, massive violations of human rights, crimes against humanity, and political oppression of the people in the disputed territory of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In actuality, Russell Tribunal on War Crimes in Kashmir 2021 aims to replicate the significance and impact of the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam that gained worldwide press coverage and had a clear, discernible impact on transforming the narrative on Vietnam. For that reason, and in paying homage to the courage of Professor Bertrand Russell, who dared to challenge American hegemony at the height of its power, we use that model to expose the crimes of India in Kashmir. Likewise, the Russell Tribunal on Kashmir aims to reaffirm the primacy of international law as the basis for solving the Kashmir conflict. Moreover, it aims to raise awareness of the responsibility of the international community to prevent ongoing crimes against humanity and the potential for genocide to occur.