Kashmir Life
Briefing December 12-18, 2021
COONOOR
In one of the worst air crashes in recent years, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, the only 5-star General, was...
Briefing December 5 – 11, 2021
GENEVA
The arrest of Kashmir’s key human rights activist, Khurram Parvez, by the NIA on terror charges continues to dominate the civil liberty debate with...
The Kangri Cancer
Not in so distant past, most of Kashmir lacked resources to even have adequate garments in winters. Kangri, the fire pot was the only...
Briefing Novemebr 28 – December 4, 2021
TELANGANA
It started with successfully growing different varieties of Kashmiri apples. Now the Telangana has started experimenting with Saffron and it has reaped the first...
Kashmir’s Plague Story
Plague like many other epidemics got imported into Kashmir. A Mitra, Kashmir’s erstwhile Chief Medical Officer of Kashmir treated the plague-infected and tackled the...
Do You Know What Bertrand Russell Said About Mathematics?
by Firdous Ahmad Mala
“Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must...
Does The Palindromes In Quran And DNA Tell Anything?
by Aadil Hussain
It seems one palindrome is reflected from the other, and together they direct us to the Greatness of the Creator.
The magnificence and...
Briefing November 21-27, 2021
SRINAGAR
FIL Industries (now called Konhinoor Group) founder Syed Iqbal Bukhari passed away on November 14, 2021. Father of Apni Party founder Altaf Bukhari, Iqbal...
It Is Winter, Why Is The Development Invisible?
by Aasia Hassan
Why does the government keep shouting development and development when there is none?...
On November 18, I came back home (Kashmir) after a...
‘Without Statehood Ladakhis Are Neither Safe Nor Secure’
Senior Congress leader and former minister, Asgar Ali Karblaie, who is co-chairman of a joint Leh-Kargil alliance tell Hilal Shah that the most strategic...
The Ladakh Lady
Last week, President Ramnath Kovind handed over Padma Bushan to Dr Tsering Landol. The honour came to her after APJ Avul Kalam gave her...
Briefing November 14-20, 2021
DELHI
Dramatic developments are taking place in the region. Though the denial of the air space for GoFirst’s Srinagar Sharjah flight has not impacted the...
Raja Sukh Jiwan Mal
Fierce resistance to the Afghan rule in Kashmir was led by a Punjab born Gujarati who adopted Kashmir and Kashmiris and eventually died for...
A Highway Station
Shortly before the non-native workforce became news following a chain of attacks, Aaqib Hyder spent some time in Wanpoh and interacted with nativse and...
Why Allama Iqbal Was A Great Awakener?
by Aijaz Lone
During his stay in Europe, Allama Iqbal realized the real meaning of life. He said, ‘my forefather spends their lives in search...
