Kashmir Life
High Way To Destruction
Kashmir is losing a generation to drugs, with medicinal opiates being the most abused substances to get a high. Social stigmatisation is keeping many...
Grit does not need arms
Born without arms, Mohammed Sultan taught himself to write with his feet. He is now pursuing his master’s at University of Kashmir and aspires...
Too Many Tragedies
Scores of mourners carrying the body of slain Mirwaiz in 1990 were killed when forces opened fire on the funeral procession, adding a black...
Caring For Less Privileged
Social service and philanthropy are necessary to take care of the less privileged in the society. With two decades of conflict leaving thousands of...
Where does government money come from?
Kashmir Life offers a plain arithmetic of where from the state government mobilizes the huge amount that it spends a year. Countries have their...
Chaman Lal Gupta
India’s erstwhile junior defence minister Prof Chaman Lal Gupta is gradually emerging as the parallel leader of the state BJP. Apparently leading the seven...
Challenging the Stereotype
Gulshan Akhtar is one of the two female SHOs in Kashmir and heads Srinagar’s only women’s police station at Rambagh. She talks to Aliya...
Numbers Game
The decadal headcount has always kicked up controversies in J&K especially since 1981. Census Commissioner Farooq Ahmad Faktoo in an interview with Ikhlaq Qadri,...
More Stars for Kashmir
A five-star hotel conceived by Sheikh Abdullah and businessman Khawaja Saif-ud-din Baba took more than thirty years to complete. With a management contract with...
Newsmakers
DEVASTATED: Baramulla’s vast commercial belt was devastated in a massive conflagration. Apart from 10 houses, 200 shops and godowns were destroyed in the Auqaf...
Kashmir’s War Journalists
From Afghanistan to Libya, Iraq to Thailand, the world gets to see the conflict through the cameras and pens of war-groomed Kashmiri journalists. P...
Sangh On Sale
The BJP won a historic mandate in Jammu - 11 of the 87 seats in 2008 state elections after enforcing an economic blockade on...
The Proud Farmer
Dr Gazalla Amin gave up a career in medicine to venture into farming and turned a successful entrepreneur. Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
She cherished her childhood...
Rajouri: A Crash Course In Development
Apart from the two cities of Jammu and Srinagar, J&K lives in 20 districts which are the basic administrative and developmental units. Comptroller and...
Headcount 2011
As always, a year ahead of the actual headcount comes the provisional statistics of the census. It came last month. Limited to a few...
