Alone In A Hostile World
Abdul Kareem Gujri, a newspaper vendor, was killed in Pampore as paramilitary opened fire on civilians. His widow and children are fighting a tough battle for survival in a hostile world since. Hamidullah Dar...
Scripted in pain
A calligrapher with local Urdu dailies, Ghulam Nabi Mahajan was killed after watching his son die at the hands of troopers during a crack down in his locality. Shazia Yousuf traces story of Mahajan...
Too Costly A Truth
A newspaper vendor and a freelance reporter lost his life and son and later a daughter for reporting the news as he saw it. The murder of Ghulam Mohammed Lone is a story of...
A Smile Cut Short
An enterprising photojournalist Mushtaq Ali’s story was cut short by a parcel bomb meant for fellow journalist Yusuf Jameel. Shazia Khan reports the travails of his family.
(Photographer Mushtaq Ali)
Twenty-seven-year-old Mushtaq Ali worked as a...
A Short Flight
His father had died 15 days before he was shot. His wife died less than two years later, leaving their three orphans and his aged mother in extreme poverty and shock. Hamidullah Dar reports.
When...
A Vacuum In Life
A cameraman with a local cable television Javed Ahmad Mir was shot dead covering a protest in 2008 August. His widow is battling each day for survival and sustenance of her family. Aliya Bashir...
Living With A Trauma
A family lost its sole breadwinner to violent death and fell into penury. The murder cost them a decade and a half of struggle, his children’s education and trauma that refuses to abate. Hamidullah...
GORE AND PAIN
Kashmir Life has completed first year of its publication – a year that we will remember as painful, challenging but satisfying. Conventional wisdom called for a celebration and the KL team did consider it....
Building an institution
There may be many factors for the growth of media in the last two decades in Kashmir, but one organisation has provided bricks for building this institution, the media studies department of the University...
Impressions of a newspaper reader
ZAMIR AHMAD
The oldest memory of my tryst with newspaper reading dates back to the times when I was a primary school kid. Kashmir, in those days, was much more peaceful and news was yet...
Yes we can
Flick through the main TV channels, and you will find a lot of talk. The 90s saw the widest range and the largest number of talk shows ever. The public affairs talk shows have...
Journalism as a Career
Dr SHAHID RASOOL
Journalism is one of the oldest professions. Earlier mostly people landed in this field either accidentally or by the influence of peer group or the family. From the past three decades or...
All in a day’s work
by Kainaat Mushtaq
“Journalists” said a western philosopher recently “are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money”.
May be it is true for the...
Fair presence
Women have driven their way into almost all sectors in Kashmir. Media is no exception. Aliya Bashir reports.
In the past many newsrooms were averse to the presence of a female. But things are changing...
