A Withered Witness
Witness to the ups and downs in Shehr-e-Khas, Siddiq Sodaghar remembers all events between the Nala Mar filling to the worst of Sher-Bakra feud. His attempts to join rebels were frustrated by his father but he could not save him from the neighbourhood garrison and the jails. After years of…
Redwani Encounter: The Complete Story
by Saima Bhat SRINAGAR: In an encounter between militants and a mixed contingent of counter-insurgent forces that started during wee…
Good Governance: J&K At Rank 21 Among 30 Indian States
SRINAGAR: With “good governance” as the focus of attention in the remotely ruled Jammu and Kashmir, it is important to…
Inking An Accord
The intellectual Congressman Jairam Ramesh, when not in power, writes books. His sixth book in four years is about P…
Horror In Hawoora
A good boy’s sweet dream sent the entire village to clear the graveyard from weeds and shrubs and minutes later…
Kashmir’s most popular journalist Yusuf Jameel tells Umar Mukhtar KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the difference between the 1990s and…
Hopelessly Precarious
By Khursheed Wani Kashmir is going through one of the most critical periods of history. The actors on the stage…
General Atta Hasnain
Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain is back in Kashmir, this time as new chancellor of Central University Kashmir (CUK). Hasnain,…
Modi’s Kashmir Policy has brought India to Disrepute
by Tapan Bose The cynical break-up of the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir by BJP without prior notice…
Sajad’s Achievable Partyhood
by Jahangir Raina A few years back, when PDP was in opposition, I had commented somewhere on social media about…
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…
A Distinct Doctor
With the demise of Dr Naseer Ahmad Shah (January 5, 1929 – October 11, 2017), an era is over. A…
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…
