Kashmir Life
Roshni Rackets Darken Energy Futures
Conceived by Abdul Rahim Rather to light up the state and its resources, the Roshni Scheme had a darkened delivery by Ghulam Nabi Azad....
Reporting On A Razor Edge
Dear Editor,
We, the reporters in Srinagar have passed through hell in last two decades. But we ensured, to our utmost capability, that every incident...
Railway Millionaires
As Railways ventured into Kashmir Valley, it paid 600 crore as compensation for land to people. But as the train chugs, the traces of...
Budget 2010-11
Kashmir Life reproduces the J&K Budget 2010-11 presented in the legislative assembly by the finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather on Friday, March 13 2010.
Hon’ble...
Alone In A Hostile World
Abdul Kareem Gujri, a newspaper vendor, was killed in Pampore as paramilitary opened fire on civilians. His widow and children are fighting a tough...
Scripted in pain
A calligrapher with local Urdu dailies, Ghulam Nabi Mahajan was killed after watching his son die at the hands of troopers during a crack...
Too Costly A Truth
A newspaper vendor and a freelance reporter lost his life and son and later a daughter for reporting the news as he saw it....
A Smile Cut Short
An enterprising photojournalist Mushtaq Ali’s story was cut short by a parcel bomb meant for fellow journalist Yusuf Jameel. Shazia Khan reports the travails...
A Short Flight
His father had died 15 days before he was shot. His wife died less than two years later, leaving their three orphans and his...
A Vacuum In Life
A cameraman with a local cable television Javed Ahmad Mir was shot dead covering a protest in 2008 August. His widow is battling each...
Silenced
One of the earliest jolts journalism in Kashmir received was the killing of Alsafa News editor Mohammed Shaban Vakil, reports R S Gull.
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Living With A Trauma
A family lost its sole breadwinner to violent death and fell into penury. The murder cost them a decade and a half of struggle,...
GORE AND PAIN
Kashmir Life has completed first year of its publication – a year that we will remember as painful, challenging but satisfying. Conventional wisdom called...
Building an institution
There may be many factors for the growth of media in the last two decades in Kashmir, but one organisation has provided bricks for...
Impressions of a newspaper reader
ZAMIR AHMAD
The oldest memory of my tryst with newspaper reading dates back to the times when I was a primary school kid. Kashmir, in...
