Kashmir Life
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...
Briefing
DELHI
Comrade SitaramYechury was arrested at the airport and sent back along with his colleague when he flew to Srinagar to enquire about the welfare...
Mankind’s Kashmir Arrival
Kashmir is one of the few locations across South Asia that still retains tell-tale details of the pre-historic settlements starting from the Neolithic age,...
Revived Letters
After years of huge reliance on the modern tools of communications, Kashmir is gradually returning back to the age-old tradition of letter writing, reports...
What Next?
Post Article-370 scrapping, the Central Government is busy planning big interventions as the Jammu and Kashmir is gradually moving towards becoming the Union Territory...
Workforce Exodus
Within hours after the government issued marching orders to the tourists and pilgrims ahead of August 5, tens of thousands of the non locals...
Workforce Deficit
By: Shams Irfan
Amid massive build-up of troops and constant rumours, a government order on August 2, asking tourists and Amarnath pilgrims to leave Kashmir...
Excommunication
Jammu and Kashmir is passing through history’s biggest communication blockade
A middle aged person, a businessman, had somehow managed to get admission for his son...
