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…
Laroo Killings: Know The Slain Seven
by Farzana Nisar and Shah Hilal KULGAM: October 22, 2018, a day after an encounter in Kulgam’s Laroo village sent ten…
Laroo Killings: The Complete Story
by Masood Hussain SRINAGAR: It was just a routine encounter and was presumed to have concluded after cops left with…
Satirist Singer
Radio Kashmir helped him become the most famous young artist of his era and then militancy took over and everything…
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…
Argumentative Raj Bhawan
by Khursheed Wani It is a fact that Raj Bhawan in Jammu and Kashmir underwent discernable change since Satya Paul…
Managing Floods
After the September 2014 floods that devastated Kashmir, especially the economic hub, the Srinagar, the follow up has been going…
Afghanistan On A Hill
Afghans have historically settled in Kashmir since the fall of Mughal Empire and even before. Umer Sofi visited a small…
The Foremost Broadcaster
In 1981, when Mahendra Koul (July 28, 1922 – July 18, 2018) visited the 10-Downing Street, he looked at Prime…
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,…
A Reading Light
Moved by the plight of her blind nephew, Naza Bano shuns promising career options to help specially-abled kids like him.…
Wonder Spring?
A Facebook video showing a spring in a non-descript south Kashmir village following kid’s commands to make its water rise…
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…
Transmission Tales
In order to ensure that the existing fragile and inadequate power transmission system to Kashmir has a back-up, a REC…
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…