‘We Draw Our Identity From Our Mother Tongue’
Playwright Muhammad Amin Bhat told Khalid Bashir Gura after being elected as president of Adbi Markaz Kamraz. Kashmir Life (KL): What drove you to writing plays in the first place? Muhammad Amin Bhat (MAB): I was born and brought up in Baramulla. It…
With Kashmiri Shawl, Saudi Crown Prince Makes A Fashion Statement
SRINAGAR: As Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known more as MbS, chaired an official board meeting, he sparked a…
Three Kashmir DDC’s To Be Headed By Women
by Yawar Hussain SRINAGAR: Three districts in Kashmir valley are slated to have women as chairpersons of the recently elected District…
Videos
Why Shehr-Khas Srinagar Has All That What UNESCO Seeks In A Heritage City?
by Roshiba Munir Khan Have you ever imagined our Sheher-e-Khaas being nominated as a World Heritage Site, getting worldwide recognition and…
Why Depression Is Key To The Infertility In Kashmir Women?
by Jeelani Saima Habeeb It is right time for the people of Kashmir to recognize the essence of early marriage…
People’s Conference leader Abdul GaniVakil tells Yawar Hussain that if Kashmiri leaders have to wait for Supreme Court verdict on…
New Bird Flu
With people desperate for a vaccine to manage the Covid-19, a pandemic that has killed two million people worldwide, the…
Pandemic’s Emotional Toll
In Kashmir, Covid-19 hasn’t infected and killed people alone. It has broken families or pushed them into crises that are…
Snow In January
Science and tradition suggest that early winter snowfall is good for Kashmir ecology but the fragile service delivery systems sent…
History’s Major Snowfall
Every time there is a snowfall, the media chases the weatherman asking about the dates when it snowed more last…
Government Initiatives January 24-30, 2021
Parliamentarians In Kashmir Finally, the members of the parliament of India were permitted to have 3-day Kashmir visit to review…
Government Initiatives January 17-23, 2021
Bamboo Development In order to harness the unexplored potential of the bamboo sector in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Ministry…
The 72nd Republic Day was celebrated in Kashmir on Tuesday amid tight security, with the main event in the valley…
A Carriage Chronicle
The early twentieth century, horse-driven Tonga became the main public transport for Kashmir. Then the horses would come from Kabul…
The Road Raahat
Frequent closure of highway leaves a flood of people stranded thus encouraging the residents to have structured and sustainable initiatives…
The Best Half
Falling in love while in her teens, a lady put an exemplary battle – after her marriage, to secure the…
Mission Kashmir
Last week when the film Mission Kashmir’s cast celebrated 20 years of the ‘landmark’ film, a federal investigator raided the…
Kashmir Wazwan
A Bollywood producer, currently in Srinagar, triggered a controversy by claiming that he has introduced veg-Wazwaan. He was trolled for…
Briefing January 24-30, 2021
KUPWARA Over are the days of trekking long distances to make a distress call. Finally, cell phones ring in the…
Levelling The Playing Field
An increasing number of tournaments being held across Kashmir, mostly by the youth by raising donations from their pocket money,…
A Biden’s World
As Joe Biden takes over as the new US president replacing Donald Trump, many US policies are expected to change. …
Ghulam Nabi Shaida (1947 – 2021)
In the death of Ghulam Nabi Shaida, editor of Wadi ki Awaz, Kashmir has lost an upright editor who suffered…
The Charity Debate
by Riyaz Wani The past four months have witnessed Kashmiris donating generously to poor people asking for alms online, in many…
In his fourth books, Khalid Bashir Ahmad accesses rare documents to rediscover many people between Allama Iqbal and Sheikh Abdullah to various…
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…
Amshipora Redux?
Days after the sleuths completed investigations in the July 2020 fake encounter involving the killing of three Rajouri labourers, the…
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…
Cast In Stone
A mosque constructed by the most celebrated Mughal Queen, Nur Jahan, in the heart of Srinagar fought a lot of…
Unseen Kashmir
As the Covid-19 dictated lockdown protracted from one week to another, restive youngsters moved out to explore the Kashmir they…
Women In Power
The ongoing District Development Council (DDC) election is adding around 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and…
Orchard Massacres
The Forest Department issued notices to all the ‘encroachers’ everywhere. But a patch on Budgam-Pulwama border was the only place…
Home Cooked Tiffin
At the peak of the August 2019 lockdown, when office-goers faced starvation owing to the closure of the eateries in…
