School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s stringent anti-defection law. Masood Hussain revisits the history of the defection in the state to understand how the conflict has helped the tradition emerge into a…
In Kashmir’s First Ever Mass Marriage, 105 Couples Tie The Knot
by Mehraj Bhat SRINAGAR: In the first ever mass marriage in Kashmir, as many as 105 couples tied the knot in…
Ikhwan scared folk singer creates history, makes to Coke Studio Pakistan
by Shams Irfan SRINAGAR: The much-awaited latest edition of Coke Studio Pakistan is out on Youtube and other social media…
Inking An Accord
The intellectual Congressman Jairam Ramesh, when not in power, writes books. His sixth book in four years is about P…
Birth of Burhan
In Last 30 years, Kashmir witnessed killings of thousands of militants, some of them trained by veterans in Afghanistan. But…
Kashmir’s most popular journalist Yusuf Jameel tells Umar Mukhtar KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the difference between the 1990s and…
First Timer’s Raw Ambition
By Khursheed Wani “Someone asked him what he would count his biggest achievement in life,” Mehbooba Mufti told a group…
Khursheed A Ganai
In the year 2015, when a 1982-batch IAS officer Khurshid Ahmad Ganai was overlooked for the post of Chief Secretary,…
Sajad’s Achievable Partyhood
by Jahangir Raina A few years back, when PDP was in opposition, I had commented somewhere on social media about…
When Chips Are Down!
by Kuldeep Khuda The fluid situation in the state of Jammu & Kashmir over last 70 years and particularly since 1990,…
Indefensible Cases?
The ‘beauty’ of the collapsed BJPDP regime was that the two parties agreed on issues in the Agenda of Alliance…
Minting Manifestos
As the BJPDP alliance becomes history, the lawmakers from PDP, NC and independents enumerate the incidents and landmarks of the…
Painting Pain
Artist Veer Munshi’s world starts and ends with Kashmir, his roots, migration and the crisis in between. Last week, his…
The Sand Art
When an entire classroom understood the idea of how sand art can be used to explain a situation in one…
Afternoon Annulment
Slightly more than 25 months later, BJP pulled out of coalition at a time when PDP was busy in governance…
Mir Syed Shujaat Bukhari
by Umar Mukhtar The journey of Shujaat Bukhari’s life started from his native village Kreeri in Baramulla, which he left…
The Shihlipora Shades
On the 17th anniversary of counter-insurgent Azad Nabi’s killing, Muhammad Younis visited the remote south Kashmir village to understand the…
1865: Kashmir Weavers’ Agitation
By all accounts, world’s first organised labour agitation took place in Kashmir on April 29, 1865, almost 21 years before…
Little girls write to PM, seeks fathers release
Suzanne Shah & Sundas Shah Sir, Jailed separatist Shahid-ul Islam’s two school-going daughters have appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Haj 2018: Batch 1, Takes Off
by Tahir Bhat and Bilal Bahadur SRINAGAR: The first batch of Mecca pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir took off from…
