Kashmir Life
Yes we can
Flick through the main TV channels, and you will find a lot of talk. The 90s saw the widest range and the largest number...
Journalism as a Career
Dr SHAHID RASOOL
Journalism is one of the oldest professions. Earlier mostly people landed in this field either accidentally or by the influence of peer...
All in a day’s work
by Kainaat Mushtaq
“Journalists” said a western philosopher recently “are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to...
Fair presence
Women have driven their way into almost all sectors in Kashmir. Media is no exception. Aliya Bashir reports.
In the past many newsrooms were averse...
Yusuf Jameel, Srinagar
In conflict battered Kashmir when the truth became a casualty and propaganda replaced news, Kashmiris tuned to one source, BBC radio, and its correspondent...
No room for the newsroom
ARSHID MALIK
George Orwell wrote the lines, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” He understood that if...
A word for my fraternity
Taking the press freedom and right to information laws at face value Iftikhar Gilani reported fearlessly and objectively without caring for any perceived or...
The Story of A Rebirth
Charged with espionage and detained for four years, photojournalist Maqbool Sahil wrote books inside the jail. He writes about the torture and his helplessness...
From unsettled times to repressive freedom
By GAUTAM NAVLAKHA
I have little to say. Reason is simple. To report on everyday stable secure life punctuated by some days of turbulence is...
Boom boom boom . . .
The two-decade turmoil has adversely impacted most business in Kashmir, but for the media industry it provided a boost. Haroon Mirani takes a look...
Through thick and thin
Newspaper hawkers are known to face rain and sun everywhere, but in Kashmir bullets and batons are a supplement. Ibrahim Wani reports.
Even before the...
Costly Images
Photo and video journalists bring news into the bedrooms and are always perceived by people as a glamorous lot. Izhar A Wani writes about...
Unending Search
She doesn’t know if her husband is dead or alive. She gave up search of her missing calligrapher husband who disappeared in troopers’ custody...
No case for taxman
A Supreme Court order has shagged off the taxman from the backs of industrialists and on the way saving them a whooping Rs 900...
Facts of Resurgent Kashmir
Author: Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain Publishers: Kashmir Institute, Abi Guzar Price: Rs 135 To be released on April 19
Sara Wani
The book is a compilation...
