Think Before Spitting!
Saima Bhat
Around 95 percent of the world’s population has health prob-lems with over a third of them having more than five ailments, claims Global...
Lynch Mentality
Shakir Mir
Last week the issue of tolerance in India grabbed spotlight once again after two members of lesser known Hindu outfit claimed responsibility for...
Blocked Sanity
Shams Irfan
Once again Kashmiri truck drivers were attacked by right-wing Hindus. This time it happened in Udhampur. But this is not an isolated attack....
Humble Meters
The state government issued ‘strict’ instructions for installation and calibration of fare meters in all auto-rickshaws across the state in August 2015. But so...
Education Pays
by Syed Asma
A new school has come up in the vicinity of the University of Kashmir. Having more than three dozen operative branches across...
‘The Dirty Secret’
Bilal Handoo
Emergence of 20,000 graves within four years after masses mobilised must have haunted Kashmir. It still does, even when dementia has taken over....
Picture Panic
Shakir Mir
Earlier this week social media exploded with outrage over pictures of mangled bodies of three young men lying near an orchard in Pattan....
Thanks Delhi
Shams Irfan
The wait is not over yet. We might have come out almost unscathed out of the flood waters but our egos remain bruised....
Sleeping Threat
Shakir Mir
For first time since last year’s floods, water level in river Jhelum this week touched an all-time low of 2.55 ft at Sangam,...
Back to Basin
Shams Irfan
One of the most haunting images from September 7, 2014 floods was of new mothers carrying their just born babies on narrow wooden...
Uprooting Innocence
Saima Bhat
One doesn’t need to be a psychologist to read their innocent eyes and gloomy faces. The pain of separation is palpably visible even...
Through Blurred Glasses
In the 1990s the most common window through which Kashmir and its politics was looked at by people in India was perhaps Bollywood, courtesy...
The Intoxicating Affair
Bilal Handoo
In the summer of 2005, eight veiled women while chanting Islamic slogans ransacked a liquor shop in Srinagar. One of them lit a...
Gender Issues and Society
Mantasha Binti Rashid
Whenever I have talked about prevalent gender issues in and among my fellow beings of my society, I have found startling responses...
Suicidal Scares
Bilal Handoo
Lone family from central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district is in deep mourning at the moment. On Saturday they got a shock of their life...
