The Pain Manager
Pain is part of life and global in nature. Dr Tariq Tramboo, Kashmir’s young inventor doctor has done pioneering work in pain management thus fetching him patents for the procedures he evolved. Shuttling between hospitals and the workshops, and keeping a low profile, he is keen the policy makers foresee…
How A Photograph In Kashmir Led To Social Boycott Of A Village In Assam?
Srinagar Residents of Udali, a predominantly Muslim village in Assam’s Hojai district, have excommunicated a family after their kin’s alleged…
Kashmir’s Half Widow Is At The Core Of A New Film
SRINAGAR: Kashmir’s half-widows have got yet another voice. The writer and director Praveen Morchhale, has shot an 85-minute Urdu film…
Interlocutor Tales
At the peak of 2010 unrest, Dr Manmohan Singh government appointed three interlocutors led by Editor Dilip Padgaonkar, academic Prof…
Apple Tales
As the growers were busy managing the sale of bumper crop amid glut and surging freight and diminishing returns, nature…
PDD Chief Engineer Hashmat Qazi tells Saima Bhat KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Where are the problems in transmission setup? Hashmat Qazi…
K K Sharma
On November 5, 2018, the Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik appointed Kewal Krishan Sharma, a 1983 batch AGMUT…
Why I Am Still Waiting For My Militant Brother?
by Syed Tajamul Imran Few events change history and few storms shatter families. In past thirty years of unending bloodshed,…
Understanding Mir Jafar, Mir Sadiq
by M J Aslam “Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat its mistakes” George Santayana Hostilities cease…
Mayor Making
As independents dominated the outcome of Srinagar’s lowest-polled municipal election, the politics reinvented the past to create a future that…
Kashmir In Dhaka
Apart from easily available Kashmiri handicrafts and almost omnipresent Kashmiri students pursuing medicine, Dhaka holds many links to Kashmir, writes…
Rajnath’s Revelations
Khursheed Wani On October 23, Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Srinagar for a daylong visit to oversee the security…
Virtual Gulrez
A post graduate in environmental science recorded a Kashmiri song. Watching it emerge as a smash hit on the web,…
Personality Disorders
by Zeenat Farooq A personality disorder is a mental health condition that affects the way a person thinks, behaves and…
Scholarships
Daewoo Vietnam Scholarship in USA, 2019 George Washington University, United States of America Application Deadline: March 6, 2019 Apply…
Before Pathan Raids
A series of developments took place before and after the crucial three days between October 23 and 27, 1947, but…
Batting Blindly
When he closed his eyes forever in the lap of his mother, barely six months after his birth, Irfan was…
SAD Winter Blues
Winters come with cold, low sunlight and a lot of snow and craving for cosy environs. In certain cases, it…
Wonder Spring?
A Facebook video showing a spring in a non-descript south Kashmir village following kid’s commands to make its water rise…
The Kanger Story
Kashmir’s traditional firepot has been part of the folklore for centuries. Though it is a full-fledged economy and an inseparable…
The Foremost Broadcaster
In 1981, when Mahendra Koul (July 28, 1922 – July 18, 2018) visited the 10-Downing Street, he looked at Prime…
10 Funerals, One Wedding
The consistent gloom and pain in the valley are devouring the petty patches of joy and happiness on daily basis.…
Romancing The Chinar
by Bilal Bahadur Srinagar: The onset of Autumn, perhaps, the loveliest season, in Kashmir is when green turns to gold and…
The Last Speech
After a hectic 3-day event of travel bloggers and journalists, when a senior officer delivered his “last speech”, it undid…
Mixed Memories
Perhaps the oldest surviving pensioner, Abdul Rashid Khan studied forestry in the UK when Hari Singh was still Kashmir’s proud…