The Shujaat, You Do Not Know
Kashmir lost Shujaat Bukhari, one of its most prominent journalists to a brutal attack virtually on the eve of Eid. Masood Hussain who had a long association with the slain editor details the anecdotes...
Rusting Lenses
More than six months after freelance news-photographer Kamran Yousuf returned home, Muhammad Younis could not get much from the reticent young man. But the rusting cameras hanging around told the story
On March 15, evening,...
‘Managing’ Media
The constitution of an advisory committee is yet another extension to the “media management” policy that started decades back, observes Masood Hussain
Everybody is not required to know it but last week was intensely interesting....
“My cartoons dragged me into court thrice”
Kashmir’s preeminent cartoonist BAB talks to Umar Mukhtar on his popular drawings since 1969
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): How did you became a cartoonist?
BASHIR AHMAD BASHIR (BAB): Initially I was not planning to be a...
In Formation
The ‘writer’-abundant ruling party wants to take its image-making department to new heights as a model so it appointed ten directors in less than three years and is still searching for Mr Perfect
By the...
Shot in Darkness
Even after he raised his camera in the air to prove his identity, an indifferent cop shot a full cartridge of pellets at his face. With his one eye almost completely damaged Xuhaib, a...
Box Cameras to Selfies
They have witnessed Kashmir’s changing fortunes through their camera lenses for about five decades. Nazir Ahmad Rather talks to two ace photographers who still work at Mahatta & Co.
In 1969, a young boy named...
“In 90’s young Kashmiris were angry but scared and now they are angry and...
Former BBC journalist Andrew Whitehead covered Kashmir conflict extensively during troubled 90’s. On his recent visit to Srinagar, Saima Rashid talks to him about changes he observed on ground
Kashmir Life (KL): You have reported...
Kashmir through my lens
By Durdana Bhat
I don't decide to represent anything except myself, Mahmoud Darwish once said, but that self is full of collective memory.
These words of the prominent Palestinian poet resonated when someone from my community...
Walls Do Speak
A group of artists joined hands to restore abandoned structures in tourist hot-spots across Kashmir. But that is not all they intend to do. Saima Bhat reports the idea behind Alif foundation
Next time you...
Touseef Mustafa
The picture of a sub-inspector trying to strangulate a senior photojournalist testifies what media persons have to go through in a place like Kashmir. The photojournalist in the picture was Touseef Mustafa, the ace...
Media Quacks
It can happen only in Kashmir. A fruit vendor runs a news website, self-styled journalists operating around two hundred whatapps news groups, all boasting Valley’s who-is-who as their subscribers. Aakash Hassan reports the shady...
Not Collaterals!
Kashmir Life’s photojournalist Bilal Bahadur dodged death once again when a teargas shell, aimed at his head, missed and hit his arm at Bijbehara, where he had gone to cover Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant Adil Reshi’s...
Stop Press
Ruling journalist-abundant party created new precedence by banning a newspaper in 2016 summer. But there were many other incidents that are unlikely to get buried in the footnotes of history, writes Masood Hussain
“This boy...
“We only know Kashmir as a piece of beautiful land, not as a place...
Anil Chamadia who heads Media Studies Group came up with startling facts in his survey about mainstream Hindi media and their understanding of Kashmir issue. He tells Saima Bhat that Hindi journalists see Kashmir...