Torn Between Loyalties
South Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency has created precedence in the electoral history as it would go to polls in three phases. Shams Irfan visited the restive region that witnessed a chain of crisis in last three years to understand how its apparent volatility…
Anantnag Polls, Phase 3, Leg 1: The complete story
by Shams Irfan ANANTNAG: Fifteen minutes after former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti cast her vote at Bijbehara, supporters of her…
Anantnag Lok Sabha Seat: An election with many firsts
by Saima Bhat SRINAGAR: With polling held for two of three constituencies of Kashmir, the stage is set for the polling…
A Central Battle
The first phase of Lok Sabha polls witnessed 34 per cent plus participation but ended with a teenager’s killing. As…
Repairing Stressed Relations
Since 2018 summer, an all India NGO is working in Srinagar and collaborates with civil and police administration in managing…
A British army officer Robert Thorp (1838-1868) was the son of a Kashmiri mother and a British colonel. While visiting…
Ruined for life
After losing his eyesight to the pellets, a young man fought odds to come to the terms with enforced disability.…
Engineering Poetry
A young engineer was not interested in the text but found solace in writing poetry in a new style, reports…
Exhibit Restraint
The electioneering has remained a comparatively peaceful affair since 2014. There were not many attacks on the people contesting polls,…
Chanderkant Sharma
On April 10, just two days ahead of parliamentary elections, Chanderkant Sharma, 50, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader was…
Phase-I: Whither Traditional Politics?
by Sheikh Qayoom North Kashmir’s Baramulla Lok Sabha seat that went to poll on April 11, 2019, saw a four…
Who Is The Asli Shera In Kashmir Politics?
by Meer Abass On the onset of election fever, political parties belonging to ruling classes use all kinds of tricks…
Can Kashmir Ever Create A World Class University?
by Umar Bashir “Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation’s standing worldwide… and our teachers know that” is…
Foremost economist and Jammu and Kashmir’s former finance minister Dr Haseeb A Drabu wrote a series of articles on the…
Halt Hokersar
Though the project is in its final stage of implementation to reduce the de-siltation, the famous Hokersar wetland requires immediate…
Xenophobic Outbreak
Faizan Ahmad, a student, passionate about journalism, writes his first-hand account about what happened and how it escalated and then…
A Brave Heart
By fishing out more than two dozen bodies and saving several men alive from different water bodies, Lelhar’s fisherman has…
Hoekh Suen Is Back
As better earning population is consuming fresh vegetables around the year pushing the traditional dried vegetables to history, a hospitality…
Keeping The Date
For managing 365 days and decorating the kitchen walls, Kashmir alone consumes almost three million wall calendars a year. Detailed…
Ladakh in J&K
More than 178 years of losing its sovereignty in a ruthless invasion, many years before Kashmir was sold, Ladakh had…
Illustrating Ghazal
Last fall, a young girl retrieved the typical Kashmiri slangs into a fascinating wall calendar. When Salma Masood met Instagram’s…
The Bald Man and The Raantas
Raantas is Kashmir’s mythical lady demon that roams around during dark wintery nights. Kashmir folklore has countless stories about this…
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A Lone Fight
A week ahead of the first phase of polling, Shams Irfan spent a few days trekking north Kashmir to understand…
Club Calling
As the interim leadership of Kashmir’s Aiwan-e-Suhafat – after putting in the basic spadework – announced the dates for an…