Kashmir Life
Murder most foul
JK Government’s one-man inquiry commission to probe the alleged rape and murder of a women and a teenage girl in Shopian, has its task...
You are right, Mr CM
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah admitted this week that institutions of state meant to protect and serve people have lost credibility in Kashmir.
Reviving Kashmiri Language
by Abid Ahmad
Recently Kashmir observed the death anniversary of Akhtar Mohiuddin, the legendary writer of Kashmiri language and literature, who elevated Kashmiri to a...
Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din: Courage till last
by Majid Maqbool
In a seminal essay written as early as 1950, Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din urged writers to side with majority of people, not power, if...
Sex Slavery
Abducted, she spent more than a year as a sex slave entertaining drug addicts, paedophiles and other criminals who brutalized her childhood. She was...
Much Ado About Nothing
by Arshad Malik
Yesterday evening, I went shopping only to find myself burdened with the goods I had purchased as the shopkeepers would not give...
Shadow of 90s: Torture 09
The infamous torture centre of 90s Papa 2 and Hariniwas may have been converted into palatial mansions,
A biscuit for health
As entrepreneurship in Kashmir takes roots, a businessmen is in the process of manufacturing biscuits from water chestnuts. Haroon Mirani reports.
A Srinagar based company...
Remembering Shahid
Amitav Ghosh referred to Agha Shahid Ali as the ‘closest that Kashmir had to a national poet’. Recently America’s prestigious and largest publishing house,...
Leelakaran dumped
While election results in Kashmir were surprising, Jammu parliamentary constituency shocked one and all. But the underlying reasons are not hard to find. Majid Maqbool reports.
As Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) entered poll fray in 2008 assembly elections, the Amarnath land controversy had polarized voters in Jammu. The Hindutva card was the best this right wing party could have played. BJP played the card and grabbed 11 seats in J&K’s legislative assembly.
Leelekaran Sharma, who led the Amarnath Sanghrash Samiti during protests in Jammu, Kathua and Samba districts of the state, entered Parliament election fray on a BJP ticket hoping to cash on the polarization once again. But the land controversy had already boiled down and Sharma was shooting his foot by joining politics.
Before the elections, Leelakaran had publicly announced that his mission was completely apolitical. By jumping into elections, he was actually making his intensions of a career in politics clear. This annoyed many voters who had earlier seen a selfless leader in Sharma.
In vortex of crime
From a society which believed that skies turn red when a murder is committed, Kashmir was made
Tale of Empowerment
Ameen, once a student of History and Commerce, has moved far ahead of the times when he would vend dress materials cycling through the...
Ghulam Ali Majboor (1952 – 2009)
by Zubair A Dar
On Friday, May 15, when Ghulam Ali Majboor breathed his last, it was not the death of an artist alone, it...
A bit of this and that
If knowledge is power, we are not doing too well. No one in his right mind would today oppose the need for a high degree
‘Pathogen’ Solution to Garlic Scare
An otherwise antibiotic and antioxidant, Garlic coming through the trans-LoC trade has become a headache for the government of India. R S Gull reports...
