Decimal Divide
Municipal elections have offered decimal statistics of democracy currently in vogue in Kashmir. The black and white map offers a clear view of the state of indifference, defiance and alienation. Areas with better participation suggested the local politics is yet not irrelevant at all. But the larger question is how…
Fateh Kadal Encounter: The complete story
by Saima Bhat and Umar Khurshid SRINAGAR: Early Wednesday morning, Srinagar woke up to ‘no internet’ and everybody got panicked…
Kashmir Takes Voting To The Lowest At 5.85%
by Saima Bhat SRINAGAR: The last phase of the 4-phase municipal polls that was scheduled for Tuesday has ended with the…
Silk Since 1846
Kashmir has seen various ups and downs in managing the silk as an industry and an economy for the state…
Manan, A New Wani?
Burhan Wani’s killing in 2016 summer was the key factor in converting a scholar into a militant. Tral teenager used…
Prof Rita Jitendra was talking about her literary contributions live on Doordarshan’s Good Morning Kashmir that she suffered cardiac arrest…
Qazi Yasir
A day after a video showing Chairman of Ummat-e-Islami South Kashmir Qazi Ahmed Yasir in an obscene video call went…
How Gandhi Ji’s Only Visit Changed Kashmir?
by M J Aslam Acting on the recommendation of Lord Mountbatten, the British Government on June 3, 1947, announced its…
Can Kashmir Afford So Many Dar-ul-Ulooms?
by Naseer Ahmad Mir A day just like any other, one of my friends visited me at my home. I…
Bear Battles
As the conflict between the wildlife and the human beings is getting frequent at huge costs, nobody is looking at…
Managing Floods
After the September 2014 floods that devastated Kashmir, especially the economic hub, the Srinagar, the follow up has been going…
Delaying Emergencies
Kashmir’s roads and the situation send more people in trauma to the hospital than any other area in the region.…
Confidant Cricketer
Playing with his toy-cars on a log of wood that was being cut to pieces by his father’s band-saw mill,…
A Silent Election
As Kashmir’s two main political parties stayed away from the polls and the militants are tactically enforcing a boycott, 392…
Wonder Spring?
A Facebook video showing a spring in a non-descript south Kashmir village following kid’s commands to make its water rise…
Gase Games
With frequent law and order situation in Kashmir leading to the recurrent use of pepper and tear smoke, Zeenat Farooq…
Scholarships
Scholarships for LLM (Master of Laws) Students at University College London in UK, 2019-2020 Application Deadline: June 1,…
Youth Engagement
by Masood Hussain With gloom dominating the valley, sweet surprises come from the Indian mainland. Last week’s surprises were encouraging.…
Transmission Tales
In order to ensure that the existing fragile and inadequate power transmission system to Kashmir has a back-up, a REC…
Camping a Life
Camping and trekking have remained associated with the high-end schools and colleges in Kashmir. Shams Irfan reports the emergence of…
Between Red And Green
The right-wingers demolished Sheikh Abdullah’s ‘empire’ by taking their battle – Eak Vidhan, Eak Nishan, against the twin flags system…
Behind Broken Glasses
Inspired by the seminal work of James Joyce, Feroz Rather creates magic in his book The Night of Broken Glass.…
Fateh Kadal Gunfight: A Photo Essay
by Bilal Bahadur Srinagar: Two militants, Policeman and a civilian were killed in a gunfight in Fateh Kadal area of Srinagar…
Adil The Alpinist
Mountaineering is a celebrated sport globally. In Kashmir, it has been popular with a section of enthusiasts, one of whom…
Mixed Memories
Perhaps the oldest surviving pensioner, Abdul Rashid Khan studied forestry in the UK when Hari Singh was still Kashmir’s proud…