Kashmir Life
Pounds, Dollars, and Dinars
A large destitute population notwithstanding, J&K receives only a fraction of the foreign contributions coming into India every year. Kashmir Life profiles some of...
‘We Are Casual Labourers’
Engineer Rashid in an Interview with Tasavur Mushtaq
Kashmir Life: You are a lawmaker but you can’t get a passport?
Engineer Rashid: It is how things...
Rekindling Persian Past
Persian literature contains an immense treasure of Kashmiri culture and history almost totally obliterated from the present realm. But, as Majid Maqbool reports, there...
Sur, Strength, And Sangam
In recent years, Kashmiri youth are using different genres of music to express themselves. From rap to rock, Sufiayana to Bollywood, it seems there...
PMRP: Seven Years After
When Dr Manmohan Singh announced Prime Ministers’ Reconstruction Plan in November 2004, it envisaged projects worth Rs 24,025.55 crores.
Now it costs a whopping Rs...
Valley’s Pace Express’ Forced To Derail
There is lot of debate why Kashmir's best cricketers were dropped, reports Gowhar Geelani
Removing the 'butcher of Najafgarh' out early is any bowler's dream....
Wealth of Faith
Religious endowments and various Trusts managing them for the people of different faiths often function as autocratic systems. But as Hussain Danish reports, some...
Languages Of Faith
Languages can be windows into cultures as well as tools of influencing belief and behaviour. Shazia Yousuf takes a look at who is attracted...
Google Goes Gaga in Kashmir
When a Google team visited Kashmir last week, many young would-be entrepreneurs felt their e-dreams energized. Shams Irfan reports on what the Google-power visit...
BURIAL OF A MURDER
At the peak of Amarnath land row in 2008, a trucker’s murder provoked the historic long march ‘Muzaffarabad Chalo’ for neutralizing impact of an...
Twenty Years After
Last week, the SHRC recommended a fresh investigation into Kunan mass rapes and compensation for the victims passing serious strictures against the investigators. Mudasir...
Ability Amplified
At first glance, Javed Tak would seem like a man with a disability, a man who has resigned himself to a life of pity...
Google searching Kashmir
A high ranking team from Google, invited by Mercy Corps is coming to Kashmir to share entrepreneurial and digital skills. Tasavur Mushtaq reports
Kashmir is often...
‘Deceit’ of Dialogue
New Delhi has often responded to political crises in Kashmir by renewing official and track-II dialogue with separatists. This approach slowly graduated from arbitrary...
A Changed PSA
Last week, the cabinet approved five amendments to the J&K Public Safety Act, a law many think is ruthless and misused. The changed PSA...
