Kashmir Life
TURNS, TWISTS AND TURBULENCE
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us”
Juries and...
Kashmir on New Media
TARIQUE A BHAT
Newspapers were the kings of media but their crowns are about to topple off. The growth of what they call grassroots journalism...
Firsts of the year 2009
ZAMIR AHMAD
Year 2009 has slept forever in the lap of history. No matter what the nay-sayers say, the Gregorian calendar is deeply spun around...
Two Young Men And A Tango
Liquor baron and owner of one of India’s major airlines Vijay Mallya, was excited to revive UB Groups hops and a pharmaceutical project that...
Career Options after higher secondary
DR SEEMIN RUBAB
In Kashmir valley, winter season heralds tuition frenzy. Students and parents are at a loss about deciding the right coaching Institutes. Usually...
King Singh humbled
Arrests have remained a routine in Kashmir for the last twenty years. It barely makes news. Last year started with the arrest of Master...
Marriage of the year
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Yasin Malik brought home his Pakistani bride Mushaal Mullick known for her racy paintings. The 40-year-old Malik had married...
Unearthing truth
Allegations of disappearances and custodial killings have crept into the Kashmir discourse along with the insurgency itself. But public allegations, howsoever credible, face a...
Winners and Losers
SAJAD LONE
The suave, articulate Sajjad Lone was a student of economics in a London college before he burst onto Kashmir’s political scene after his...
Looking to change and adopt
AHMAD RIYAZ
While Shopian murders may have severely tested the credibility of his government, Chief Minister Omer Abdullah’s own political image has emerged by and...
Year of Patriarch
AHMAD RIYAZ
He dominated the Valley’s discourse in 2009 but at the turn of the new year the separatist patriarch Syed Ali Shah Geelani continues...
Shopian mystery
The Shopian case not only dominated the news in 2009 but also stung most the people associated with it. Three investigations later the case...
10 controversies of 2009
While Shopian dominated 2009, there were other controversies too that hogged the headlines. Haroon Mirani lists the top 10.
CHINESE VISA ROW
The year 2009...
newsmakers
TRACED: Interpol has finally confirmed to the court that Major Avtar Singh, a territorial army major responsible for the abduction and murder of lawyer...
King Singh humbled
Arrests have remained a routine in Kashmir for the last twenty years. It barely makes news. Last year started with the arrest of...
