Kashmir Life
Manuscript Man
Nothing hinders Manzoor Daikoo from collecting rare Kashmiri manuscripts, not even his financial constraints. Hamidullah Dar interacts with the manuscript man …
Making of a catastrophe
Strained by mining, blasting and the Baghlihar water reservoir, the mountains in Doda-Kishtwar region are giving in. The twin districts remained cut-off for 18...
Indira Abdullah Accord 1975
On February 24, 1975, G Parthasarathy and Mirza Afzal Baig signed an agreement for and on behalf of Mrs Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister,...
Matter of vision
At 16, Ghafoor Wahid began losing his eyesight. But His vision helped him prepare for the greater challenge life threw at him. Aliya Bashir...
A Concerned Visitor
A British diplomat’s wife, Brigid Keenan, visited Kashmir first in the 1980s and was offered a century-old guidebook. Later she wrote one herself. On...
The Day I Started Floating Around
by Arshid Malik
Jinxed? Yes, that is what I was. My life changed tremendously all of a sudden; not that I did not know it...
Keep It Up
For a long time, education in Kashmir remained the exclusive domain of a section of the people. This helped them to become the tools...
Small Is Beautiful
He paints small objects in his small world. He paints anything from sand grains to canvas besides injection vials and bulbs from inside. Sameer...
Sky Dreams in The Valley
J&K is getting its first aviation college, which offers courses ranging from commercial pilot license to aircraft maintenance engineering and cabin crew training. Mehmooda...
Dynastic Democracy
From an independent Kingdom to present dispensation, and a lot of chaos and tyranny in between, it has been a long journey for Kashmir’s...
Resistance to Change
by Tarique A Bhat
Since Omer Abdullah made his intentions public to reform the state especially to purge corruption, a debate is desirable over performance...
Dedicated Workforce Makes A Great Society
by Ashiq Masood
While visiting my daughter admitted in the children’s ward of Niseiki Biyon Tokyo, (Red Cross Hospital Tokyo) I met Oya San, a...
Unemployment Blues
by Zamir Ahmad
Those who do not remember their mistakes are condemned to repeat them - is a much-quoted adage. The people in power, however,...
Caged
With six PSAs in a row and 16 in all, Masarat Alam holds a kind of record. The state, however, is in no mood...
Inspiring empowerment
Left to fend for her six children after her husband‘s death Khatija turned to the spinning wheel. Weaving a living, she ended up empowering...
