‘We Are All Victims of History’
PDP leader Naeem Akhter tells Kashmir Life in an interview KASHMIR LIFE (KL): An officer, politician, then a minister and finally a prisoner. How has been this long journey? NAEEM AKHTAR (NA): The journey has been bumpy, but it has been very rewarding in many senses.…
For PUBG A Brother And Sister Left Home, Now With Police
by TasavurMushtaq SRINAGAR Over the past decade smartphones have revolutionised our lives in different ways and made lives easy. Primarily developed…
Rahat Indori, The Poet Who Defended Dissent Died Of Covid-19
by Tasavur Mushtaq SRINAGAR: Rahat Indoori whose poetry was made famous by the social media, especially in last few years,…
Why Studying In Kashmir Is More Difficult Than Scaling Mount Everest?
by Tawfeeq Irshad Mir I joined the college in 2016 and the year 2020 is about to culminate and I…
What are The UN Sustainability Development Goals For Youth And How To Chase Them?
by Nasir Ahmad Dar Actions can be anything in pursuit of making, this dream a reality. Some of us may…
A Cancer Fighter
As the Coronavirus overwhelms the healthcare facilities in Kashmir, depriving seriously ailing non-Covid patients of a place for treatment, the…
CoviDepression
After losing nearly 300 and prevailing infection to more than 12,000 people, it is still too early to assess the…
For most of his political career, Prof Saifuddin Soz has been in the parliament. Recently, he was in the news…
A Rediscovery In Jammu, Ladakh
When on August 5 last year J&K’s autonomy was erased, Jammu and Ladakh erupted in celebration at the development. A…
Pandemonium
Days ahead of the August 5 anniversary, Kashmir’s marginalised mainstream seems in a dilemma. They are unable to strike a…
Lt Gov Manoj Sinha
Jammu and Kashmir’s tragically “interesting” times have retained the surprise element throughout the period governance was taken over by the…
Unanswered Knocks
Closure of the State Human Rights Commission has deprived victims of human rights violations in Kashmir of their only shot…
by Bilal Bahadur SRINAGAR
Highway Helpers
The road connecting Kashmir with the rest of the world is tricky and unstable. It turns bloody on the drop…
Knots In The Yarn
Dilshada earned livelihood selling her work at exhibitions outside Jammu and Kashmir. But she lost everything to 2014 floods. Before…
Slim Weddings
From a big, fat affair, the Kashmir marriages have become an austere affair as people adjust to the health guidelines…
The Covid-19 Lifestyle
The Coronavirus pandemic has altered the lives of people like never before. Considering the contagion is unlikely to be controlled…
Culture Warriors
Farzana Nissar treks deep-south to report the lonely fight of a peripheral theatre cluster to preserve Bhand Pather The road…
Briefing August 2 – August 8, 2020
HUMHAMA Kashmir is emerging as a theatre. On any day there is a newsbreak and then different shades of the…
Khelo India In The Time Of Corona
Umar Mukhtar In times of Coronovirus when England Cricket Board (ECB) has decided that its players would not shake hands…
Kabul and Kashmir
As Trump administration finally shook hands with the Taliban in Doha and promised to withdraw within 14 months after 18…
Pulitzer, Finally
Kashmir media has been a harried lot throughout. As the pressures mounted in recent days with cases under harsh laws…
One Year of Solitude
The August 5, 2019 decision has larger psychological dimensions beyond the symbolism of autonomy, writes Riyaz Wani When on March 25,…
Trinidad born Indian origin Nobel Laureate Sir V S Naipaul, who died on August 11, 2018, in London was one…
Kashmir’s Peter Dinklage
Tariq Mir has earned fame and a role in a Salman Khan starrer for being a look-alike of the Hollywood…
Kashmir’s Map Shawls
Shawls woven in Kashmir were fashion statements on Paris streets early nineteenth century. But it took a long time for…
China And The UT
After Delhi undid the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganised the state into two federally governed Union Territories…
Benchmarking Phase
As the hearing of a number of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 resumed, the Supreme Court reserved the…
Stressed Assets Doubled
As the regulator’s restructuring plan envisaged multiple riders, post-August 5, data indicates that Kashmir has doubled its impaired assets in…
A Massacre Debate
The East India Company sold Kashmir in 1846, notwithstanding, a section of British politics was always concerned for Kashmir. Though…
Quarantine Hotels
Without tourists since August 5, 2019, Kashmir hoteliers opened doors to shelter the Covid-19 suspects for mandatory quarantine. Initially, most…
The New Grapevine
Nearly ten months after the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state was stripped of its special status and downgraded into two…
High Density Culture
Apple apart, Kashmir has created a demonstration orchard in Srinagar outskirts where some of the best high-density fruits are grown,…
Crucial Service
With a lot of enterprises emerging on social media and the lockdown preventing consumers from moving around too much, Kashmir…