Diaspora

Kashmiri Scholar Winning Mirza Saaib Bég and his team which included Nandita Venkatesan (India), Tafadzwa Matika (Zimbabwe), Andrés Ordoñez-Buitrago (Colombia) have won the Weidenfeld Hoffmann scholarship debate conducted by Oxford Union-  a 200-year old debating society. The Weidenfeld Hoffmann Scholars' Debate is the key element of the leadership programme offered by the Wiedenfield Scholarship under which Saaib was granted admission. Last week Facebook’s oversight board upheld the ban on Donald Trump and the debate motion focussed on this issue. The motion for the debate was: This house believes that social media has no right to ban politicians. During the debate, Mirza Saaib stressed on the need for “preventing an encroachment of our rights by outsourcing the job of dispensing...

As covid-19 takes a firmer grip on India and various other countries across the globe, the efforts of Kashmiri doctors in the diaspora are earning global praises. 300 Kashmiri doctors living abroad, are providing free treatment to people around the clock in various countries including Saudi Arabia, Dubai, the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. According to news reports, Kashmiri doctors in the diaspora have treated thousands of patients after gathering under the banner of the Kashmir Healthcare Support group, and have also given free consultancy to more than 20,000 patients online, since July. Ranging from cardiologists, physicians, orthopedics to doctors who specialize in all types of treatment, the group has been helping the patients fight the pandemic. One of the doct...