Kashmir Life
Proper Planning, Right Mindset-Keys To Success
Dr Syed Sehrish Asgar from Kistwar has topped the Kashmir Administrative Service (KAS) examination held recently. She shares her success with Kashmir Life correspondent,...
THE DEAD WILL SPEAK
The government has acknowledged for the first time in 20 years that there may be a connection between thousands of unmarked graves and those...
A Chicken Farm Village
Failure and closure of a big chicken farm in Parigam, that employed many villagers, could have pushed the village into economic depression. But one...
Unhappily Married
The lives of thousands of women are in a limbo because their husbands refuse them divorce (mis) using sharia law. Mohammad Afzal Sofi reports...
Youth And Entrepreneurship
Mercy Corps, the US based charity operating in Kashmir, has carried out a detailed survey under its Start-up Kashmir Youth Entrepreneur (SKYE) Development Project,...
Weaving A Dream
Overcoming financial limitations, Arifa’s determination and optimism to excel in handicrafts helped her create a niche in the male-dominated sector, Ikhlaq Qadri meets the...
Will Harud Douse The Chinars?
Arif Ayaz Parrey
Trust the poet to make a prophecy.
I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir,
and the shadowed routine of each vein
will almost be news,...
Imported Imams
Kashmir has received a steady influx of Imams from outside since the early 1990s. Apart from slowly displacing the local Imam, the phenomenon is...
That Missing Meem Sahab
Thirty years after the young Scottish girl vanished in Sonamarg, her visually-impaired father still harbours a flickering hope that she is alive and will...
Village of Linemen
By a strange confluence, this village in Baramulla has over decades given Kashmir hundreds of its linemen responsible for maintaining electricity supply lines in...
In Love With Textiles
A widely traveled English woman’s love for fabrics and Kashmiri rugs brings her back to the valley despite dealing with consequences of a stroke...
‘Murder by Torture’
Last week, a young man, son of a retired police officer was murdered in the custody of State Police’s Special Operations Group in Sopore....
Bakshi Abdul Qayoom
A scion of Bakshi family and a passionate philanthropist, Abdul Qayoom breathed his last at 73 in Srinagar on August 2 at his residence...
Wetland Versus Sports Field
A concerned citizen and a passionate lover of his immediate environment has stood up to powerful politicians and vested interests to protect a wetland...
Moses In Butho Village?
A myth brought hundreds of devotees from across continents to a remote Bandipore village looking for the grave of Moses. But a demystifying campaign...
