Kashmir Life
Take Children Seriously
For the last few months, boys and girls are increasingly getting to the newspaper front pages for the crimes being committed upon them. While...
Green Is The Colour Of Memory
In a serious attempt to deconstruct the Green and Memory of the poet Huzaifa Pandit, Shabir Mir discovers a stylish poet’s ornate craftsmanship of...
‘In the vast desert of red blood, and pale death poetry is the only...
In this city of lights
Who would’ve imagined
gassed darkness would reign?
This nightmare had never hit me
Had the suspicion ever struck you?
Curfewed Friday
Huzaifa Pandit is a...
Molvi’s Murder
It has been years since the only brother of five Ganderbal sisters was murdered in a distant Rajasthan town where he was enrolled in...
Modi’s Kashmir Policy has brought India to Disrepute
by Tapan Bose
The cynical break-up of the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir by BJP without prior notice in Jammu and Kashmir is...
A Withered Witness
Witness to the ups and downs in Shehr-e-Khas, Siddiq Sodaghar remembers all events between the Nala Mar filling to the worst of Sher-Bakra feud....
Why Are We Always Hungry?
Umar Khurshid
When you’re hungry, your stomach may “growl” and feel empty, or you may get a headache, feel irritable or be unable to concentrate.
Most...
Broken Brushes
With the onset of digital platforms, most of the painters and the artists who would draw signpost, business hoardings and road milestones have gone...
Hopelessly Precarious
By Khursheed Wani
Kashmir is going through one of the most critical periods of history. The actors on the stage read ‘stakeholders’, are busy in...
Horror In Hawoora
A good boy’s sweet dream sent the entire village to clear the graveyard from weeds and shrubs and minutes later soldiers came and sent...
Green Hands
A South Kashmir village has traditionally remained the main vegetable producer that even exports part of its production to Jammu during summers, reports Farzana...
The Courage of Choice
Doctors Girija Dhar and Syed Naseer Ahmad Shah were one of Kashmir’s most talked about couples because they retained their faiths after their marriage....
Official Boycott
Narinder Nath Vohra is one of the few governors of Jammu and Kashmir who is fairly popular with the state’s political class. He is...
Briefing
KUPWARA
On July 11, 2018, when army shot dead Khalid Gaffar Malik, who was shutting his shop, it turned out to be more than just...
General Atta Hasnain
Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain is back in Kashmir, this time as new chancellor of Central University Kashmir (CUK). Hasnain, who served as GOC...




















