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Life Story

Grandfather teacher

In six decades Mohammed Maqbool Sangeen’s name has become synonymous with teaching Urdu. And his students have a fan club on Facebook for him....

Words of pain

Taja was mesmerized by poetry since childhood, but it were tragedies at a ripe age that brought out the poetess in her. Shazia Yousuf...

Passing the body on

A Muslim undertaker Muhammad Yaseen Dar performed the last rites for Pandits at Batamloo crematory for almost a decade. Dar died in 2008 and...

Sightless, not visionless

He can see the world only through the light of Quran. After losing eyesight at an early age Ghulam Hassan Wagay illuminated his life...

His Kashmir Nostalgia

A historical picture at his new house captured Showkat Rashid Wani’s attention in 1996. Moments later, when he moved away his gaze, he was...

Armed with determination

Ghulam  Hassan Ganai  lost both his arms to an electric shock in his  childhood. Since then he has armed himself with determination to fight...

Lines of excellence

For forty years Bashir Ahmad Bashir has been drawing cartoons, which many say is the soul of the Srinagar Times. The cartoons have many...

Manuscript Man

Nothing hinders Manzoor Daikoo from collecting rare Kashmiri manuscripts, not even his financial constraints. Hamidullah Dar interacts with the manuscript man …

Matter of vision

At 16, Ghafoor Wahid began losing his eyesight. But His vision helped him prepare for the greater challenge life threw at him. Aliya Bashir...

Public Interest lawyer

Ghulam Mohammad Wani left the judiciary to remain just, and made public interest litigation his weapon to fight for people, at times earning him...

Universal Donor

A labourer in a stone quarry, Showkat Ali Wani, runs an NGO dealing with first aid and blood donations. With an O negative blood...

Lighting up a Life

It is not a big deal to change three buses to work everyday, use a cell phone, teach computers, or thread a needle; not...

Hands that heal

With a successful career as a leading ENT specialist at his back and academic feats in his kitty, Dr Mir Mabool was not content....

Teacher at heart

An engineer by profession, a teacher at heart, Manzoor Ahmad Kachgar has established over two dozen Darsgahs in his locality, and a school that...

Preserving A Heritage

In 1998 Munshi brothers of Kargil were demolishing their ancestral inn, when they discovered a treasure trove of artefacts. Rather than bringing them wealth,...