Kashmir Life
Jammu’s Alternating Narratives
After the gruesome Kathua tragedy, almost everybody is asking: what is happening in Jammu? And why is it happening at all? Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal...
Requiem for Rehti
Since 1998 when her fingers were broken by the soldier who took her son, Rehti did not leave even a single garrison across Kashmir...
Briefing
SONMARG
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez are in Kashmir shooting for their upcoming film ‘Race 3’. Both the superstars kept their fans updated...
Governance Deficit?
By Khursheed Wani
For almost a month after durbar closes in Jammu on April 27, the governance toggles to auto-pilot mode. It takes almost a...
1865: Kashmir Weavers’ Agitation
By all accounts, world’s first organised labour agitation took place in Kashmir on April 29, 1865, almost 21 years before the Haymarket Affair in...
A Neglected KPS
Babus and the cops are twin appendages of the same government, one managing the files and the other, the street. But KPS as a...
Briefing
LAL MANDI
On World Heritage Day, Srinagar’s SPS museum put on display some of the rare post-medieval crafts including Shah Passand Kani shawls, Jamavers, embroidered...
Kathua Fallout
By Khursheed Wani
In January, when a former revenue officer, now running a private temple hatched a criminal conspiracy to dislodge a nomadic Muslim population...
Rediscovering Life
A boy lost his eyesight to a hereditary disease and was restricted to his home. After failed attempts to take his own life, a...
Taking Quran to Dogras’
Amid tensions across J&K, there is one great development: the Quran is finally having a Dogri translation and it will be out this summer....
‘Poonch border is the largest jail in India’
Shah Mohammad Tantray left government job to join politics. He left NC and joined PDP that led NC to lose Poonch for the first...
Nun Chai Samavar
Now when electric power and a whole range of innovations have started impacting the traditional ways of cooking and serving Kashmir foods and tea,...
Speaking To The Car
Though part of his routine University curriculum, Anwar Naseer explored the possibility of using speech to command a car and he succeeded. Now, he...
Khudwani Encounter
All the militants escaped but the gun battle left behind razed homes and painful memories. Saqib Mir spent a day with the residents in...
Briefing
PAHALGAM
The IAS love story that started from the green lawns of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy for Administration in Missouri finally concluded with the...
