Kashmir Life
Courting Disaster?
Record rush to the Hindu cave shrine has been complimented with record deaths this year. Permitting massive crowds on the treacherous track could trigger a...
MC Kash
From ‘revolutionary’ notes of “I protest, I’ll throw stones, Andneva run!...” to “it’s about Abdul Qadeer and him approaching the dark…” Raoushan Illahi popularly...
Kashmir Lobbyist On Trial
For more than two decades, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai has globally been the most prominent advocate of the Kashmir 'cause'. Last week, America’s FBI...
Poverty snuffs a life, a family
Historically suicide has been a rare occurrence in Kashmir’s Muslim society but it turned epidemic-like in the aftermath of armed conflict in the valley....
Denying A Level Playing Field
Cement is the only major industrial activity that gets Kashmir a degree of self-sufficiency. But a series of attempts at various levels have been...
Back to Roots
The Unani system of treatment is gaining popularity in Kashmir for its minimal side effects and affordability. Ikhlaq Qadri reports
Nothing seemed to work for...
Unknown, Unsung
While Abdul Qadeer Khan was on trial in Srinagar Central Jail for exhorting people to rise against the monarch, a crowd gathered outside the...
Buta Malik Is Out Of Business
History books credit a shepherd, Buta Malik for discovering the Amarnath Cave that attracts tens of thousands of half pilgrims every summer. For decades,...
Submerging A Culture
NHPC’s upcoming Kishanganga power project would displace hundreds, submerge homes and endanger the fragile ecology of Gurez Valley besides putting the culture and future...
The Music Scientist
Syed Shahzad Asim chose music over medicine and became a successful musician. His family had opposed his career choice and is now proud of...
The indicators
Fighting the allegations of discrimination, J&K government managed the passage of a law guiding setting up of J&K State Finance Commission in August 2006....
No respite
The government has refused to pay compensation to artisans affected by the ban on fur trade saying they don’t know who the ‘real’ fur...
Muzaffarabad
Syed Shujaat Bukhari
In Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), one comes across a strange emotional bonding the people have with our part of Jammu and Kashmir. Generally referred to as “Occupied Kashmir” (Maqbooza Kashmir), they are in love with its beauty to an unimaginable limit. A few years back, I was in Central Asia.
In Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), one comes across a strange emotional bonding the people have with our part of Jammu and Kashmir. Generally referred to as “Occupied Kashmir” (Maqbooza Kashmir), they are in love with its beauty to an unimaginable limit. A few years back, I was in Central Asia.
Empower panchayats
Barring a patch in remote Zansakar, the Panchayat elections are over. Now every village of the state has its representative and a stake in...
Crashed godhood
As Yoga guru Baba Ramdev continues to dominate news headlines across India, J&K has forgotten Dhirendra Brahmachari. Under patronage of Indira Gandhi, the Bihari...
