Kashmir Life
A lease of life
An integrated cold chain storage facility inaugurated last week has taken Kashmir’s cumulative CAS capacity to 13800-mts with the avowed objective of giving a...
Nehru’s Love for Kashmir
Edwina-Nehru relationship and its impact on J&K’s fate is a favourite debate for historians, but India does not seem ready to watch what it...
Half Widows, Double Misery
Despite Shariah providing for remarriage options for a missing person’s wife after four years, a mix of legal and social hurdles are hindering the...
South Asian Conflicts and the Drug Trade
by Siddiq Wahid
Deepthroat was the colourful name assigned to one the key figures in the emblematic Watergate scandal that brought the United States’ Nixon...
A musical vision
Dost Mohammad Khan was three when he lost his eyesight. That did not stop him from becoming the first graduate in his family, or...
Dragon diplomacy
As India and Pakistan keep fighting their hot and cold wars – physical and diplomatic – over Kashmir, China is often considered the silent...
‘Abdullah had agreed to join Congress’
In the concluding part of the interview with Shahnawaz Khan senior journalist Ved Bhasin talks about his first hand knowledge of important Kashmiri leaders
(Sheikh...
THE SHOPIAN LABYRINTH
(Women protesting in Shopian - Photo by: Bilal Bahadur)
The Shopain "rape and murders" have not only kept Kashmir on boil, but also buried many...
Riots changed J&K politics
Journalist Ved Bhasin has completed six decades in active journalism, but the editor of Kashmir Times has had an equal proximity to politics. Politics,...
Kashmir’s Grave World
Death doesn’t mean an end. There is an elaborate system of social stratification involving the burials that is an economy in itself. But space...
Blood for the nation
Shabir Hussain Khan knows the value of blood since childhood, when his family had to pay exorbitantly for 20 pints of blood required for...
Gobbling Dragon
New Delhi is countering leaked reports of Chinese incursions by denials, But China’s steady encroachments in Ladakh are an open secret. KASHMIR LIFE assesses...
Ramadhan turnover
As prayers and penance take a priority in the holy month of fasting, the business too doesn’t take a backseat. As Ibrahim Wani reports...
A Trust Initiated
by Shazia Khan
In 1970, a revenue officer Abdul Khalik Tak was conducting an official survey in many parts of the state when he...
Sculpting a History
An applied artist by training, Masood Hussain has explored diverse arts and mediums from painting to sculpting. With a penchant to innovate, Masood’s works...
