Decade of Difference
In 2009, when Ms Jawahara Shawl decided to launch Kashmir Life, she just hoped to promote a small media venture that is distinct in its coverage and approach to the issues. But she never...
Djins, Jokes and Journalism
Shams Irfan tells his journey of graduating from a page-3 reporter to a seasoned journalist who has since reported almost all shades of Kashmir’s story
It was an August afternoon in 2011 when I first...
Club Calling
As the interim leadership of Kashmir’s Aiwan-e-Suhafat – after putting in the basic spadework – announced the dates for an exercise aimed at electing the first leadership of the Press Club, Muhammad Raafi offers...
New Comedy Kings
Living in perpetual gloom and sadness for decades, some young men have unleashed their funny bone on the internet, thus offering moments of laughter and smile. Farzana Nisar meets content creators of some of...
Bad Investment
In the 1990s migration, the state broadcaster lost eighty percent of its human resource which made running the show very difficult. An alternative emerged by hiring cheap labour that eventually picked up the skill....
The Foremost Broadcaster
In 1981, when Mahendra Koul (July 28, 1922 – July 18, 2018) visited the 10-Downing Street, he looked at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.“I looked at her from top to toe,” he later recalled, “No...
Sketching 35A
Tens of thousands of rims were printed in reporting, analysing and commenting on the attempts aimed at proving the illegality of Article 35(A) in India’s constitution. But a bunch of cartoonists used less ink...
Kuldip Nayar: A Tribute To The People’s Journalist
by Yusuf Jameel
The very first time we met I was at Aftab and was introduced to Kuldip Nayar by its editor Khawaja Sannaullah Bhat as ‘the boy sitting in that corner who does it’.
The...
When A Journalist Fell
The sequence of events that led to the broad day-light killing of prominent journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari outside his office in Srinagar's Press Enclave left an indelible mark on the entire fraternity. Shams Irfan narrates...
Probing Shujaat’s Assassination
Nothing much is clear as the police have launched a massive investigation into the assassination of journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari, reports Saima Bhat
After a week of brutal assassination of Shujaat Bukhari, the Rising Kashmir...
The Poet Mentor
by Swati Parashar
The calmness of a perfect summer day in Gothenburg (where I live and teach at the university) was shattered when I received the news that renowned Kashmiri journalist and activist, Shujaat Bukhari...
An Undelivered Gift
by Saifuddin Soz
Syed Shujaat Bukhari came to meet me, two days before he was killed. When we met it became a kind of celebration because I used to have a library on the top...
An Editor Socialite
by Khursheed Wani
The killers had no intention to alert or intimidate Shujaat Bukhari. They came to eliminate him and left the site only after their perverted mission was accomplished on June 14, evening. The...
A Reporters’ Editor
by Suhail A Shah
On April 4, 2012 Kashmir’s prominent journalist and correspondent for the Agence France Presse (AFP), Izhar Wani, breathed his last after his yearlong battle against Cancer.
The next day Rising Kashmir,where I...
Mir Syed Shujaat Bukhari
by Umar Mukhtar
The journey of Shujaat Bukhari’s life started in his native village Kreeri in Baramulla, which he left after finishing his secondary school education. Born to Syed Rafiudin Bukhari, a professor and a...