Kashmir Life
The New Volunteers
Watching the farmers facing a crisis in paddy harvesting, groups of well educated youth started helping them volunatrilty and the trend has the potential...
Briefing (October 13-19, 2019)
BEIJING
For most of the last week, the tension in Delhi’s diplomatic circles was if at all Chinese President Xi Jinping will keep his date...
Briefing
“I will not say anything on Jammu and Kashmir. At this juncture, it is better to maintain silence.”
Dr Karan Singh, Kashmir’s first and the...
Gandhi And Kashmir
In order to imagine how Mahatma Gandhi would have responded to Kashmir’s present situation, it is important to understand Gandhi’s long Kashmir story first...
Briefing
SRINAGAR
Last time when Pakistan had to justify its nuclear test before the world, its foreign minister read out the statements that Dr Farooq Abdullah,...
Grounded On Water
The abrupt August 4, order asking tourists and pilgrims to leave Kashmir marked the end of a busy tourist season. Shams Irfan met the...
Briefing
SHAHNAWAZ AALAM (July 1958- September 2019)
Jammu and Kashmir’s top Rural development academician, Prof ShahnawazAalam, 61, died On September 17. Cancer in his lungs was...
1853: A Tourist On Foot
An unknown Englishman has penned in his peculiar language his long trek from Shimla to Srinagar via Tibet on foot in the summer of...
Lending: Managing Price, Risk
Credit in conflict areas is expensive because it involves risk. But the government can rediscover its subsidies set up and invest a bit of...
Briefing
Ram Jethmalani (1923-2019)
Ram Jethmalani, one of India’s most prominent lawyers and the most expensive ones, who died last week at the age of 95,...
Quite Streets
Five weeks later, ground zero is not offering any indication that would suggest an early turnaround in Kashmir situation, reports Shams Irfan
For the first...
Gulmarg To Geneva
With the rival armies engaged in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation on Kashmir borders, Indian and Pakistani diplomats are busy fighting the ‘war by...
Briefing
SRINAGAR
The Commander of Srinagar based 15-corpse Lt Gen K J S Dhillonrevealed the arrest of two Pakistani residents, belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba. Identified as Mohammad...
Losing Connections
A section of the society having the luxury of functional fixed-line phone tried making good money, reports Shams Irfan
A small worn-out bench inside a...
Land Appetite
As investment emerges as the new buzz word post-August 5, Corporate India and various state governments are keen to acquire land in Jammu and...
