Kashmir Life
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...
Sowing Fruitful Success
He left behind a successful and promising career with top pharmaceutical companies outside Kashmir and decided to return home and do something for himself....
Language And Times
Kashmiri language has evolved in recent times by accepting words and phrases that had nothing to do with the native spoken Kashmiri. It has...
Conviction of a Lonely Mother
Sad and lonely but proud Nabza has lost all her four sons to the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Majid Maqbool tracks the story of...
Kashmir: Fade in, Fade out
Till late nineteen-eighties almost every Bollywood filmmaker would come to Kashmir to treat his audience with the scenic backgrounds from the land of dreams...
