Kashmir Life

An invitation card in Persian extended to an invitee by the Maharaja’s durbar. Source-social media

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...

Plundering Heritage And Future

Famous Saffron fields of Kashmir have been under an onslaught. Shams Irfan investigates the archaeological diversity hidden underneath the spice fields, and their shocking fate. As soon as...

Handshake Under Pir Panchal

As Railways blasts through the Pir Panchal mountain range to create India’s longest tunnel, Banihal will be accessible to Baramulla in less than 90...