Unanswered Knocks
Closure of the State Human Rights Commission has deprived victims of human rights violations in Kashmir of their only shot at speedy justice. Almost a year later, the NHRC is trying to pick up the threads, reports Saima Bhat Every day around ten people…
Delhi Irked As NC, PDP Skipped Condemning Chinese Galwan Assault
SRINAGAR: Since no Kashmir based party has “condemned the killing of the Indian soldiers” in Galwan valley by the PLA,…
Day After Modi Visit, Bollywood Announces Film On Galwan Valley
SRINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Ladakh on Friday to interact with the soldiers who were injured in the…
How Islam Liberated Women From Being Objects of Inheritance?
by Mohasina Showkat Islam has raised the status of the women from below the earth so high that paradise lies…
Why We Need A Digital Detox On An Urgent Basis?
by Bilal Ahmad Dar ‘Cell phones are so convenient that they’re an inconvenience’ Haruki Murakami Technology, as we know, has…
Doc, Heal Thyself
The health givers are messiahs in their own right because they help people to live longer, reduce their pain and…
Those Cholera Carnage’s
Unlike many other epidemics, the Cholera has been Kashmir’s resident killer for most of the nineteenth century when the bacteria…
A scholar of Central Eurasian and Tibetan history Prof Siddiq Wahid, the former Vice-Chancellor of Islamic University of Science and Technology, tells Masood…
The Covid Collaterals
As a person tests positive for Covid-19, the entire eco-system for the family and the villages’ changes abruptly. Authorities take…
Downgrading Red Zone
At one point of time, Hajin belt was emerging as Coronavirus hotbed. Though the belt continues wearing the red zone…
A Delayed Darbar
The government offices are finally shifting to Srinagar and the civil secretariat will open early July in Srinagar. Employees will…
Residency To Reservations
After being legally protected for 108 years, Kashmiris find themselves out in the open as reservation rules replace Residency rights. Haseeb…
SRINAGAR: Since the Covid-19 causing is still having the field day, it obviously indicates that the humanity will have to…
Kashmir’s Mask Manager
At the peak of despair when people were desperately seeking face-masks as the minimal basic defence against the crippling virus,…
Keeping The Commitment
In a remote village in Anantnag, a doctor is working among nomads to help them face up to pandemic, reports Umar…
Adoring Alternatives
In turbulent times, loved ones make things easier. In hostile situations and enforced disconnect – as was the case post-August…
Rendered Vulnerable
Families who lost their homes to gun battles in recent days are shelter-less and vulnerable to the spread of Covid-19,…
Culture Warriors
Farzana Nissar treks deep-south to report the lonely fight of a peripheral theatre cluster to preserve Bhand Pather The road…
Briefing July 5 – July 11, 2020
In the first half of the year ending June, in more than 100 counter-insurgency operations Kashmir witnessed 229 killings including…
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…
OBE Is The Alternative
by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days…
When Kashmiris serving in the Ladakh desert were called Khachul or Khache, they were taking it as a slang. Historian…
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…
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and…
Quarantine Hotels
Without tourists since August 5, 2019, Kashmir hoteliers opened doors to shelter the Covid-19 suspects for mandatory quarantine. Initially, most…
Caught In Between
As people accuse them of betrayal and the government of destabilization, the ground zero political workers in Kashmir periphery have…
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…