Kashmir Life
Rapes Aren’t Inevitable
By Khursheed Wani
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s latest Delhi visit was exclusively aimed at seeking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s practical support in addressing the explosive...
Sketch: Solar System
Name: Simra Bhat
Class: 4th
School: Mallinson Girls High School
Sketch: Family Tree of Verb
By: Mohammad Ayaan Najar
Class: 2nd
School: Oasis School Gulshan Nagar Nowgam Srinagar
Ensure Political Space
By Khursheed Wani
On April 4, Mehbooba Mufti completed two years in office as Chief Minister. Initially, after her father’s demise, she was reluctance to...
Model Self Help
A specially-abled man, fought odds to survive but struggled to create a difference for the people rendered imperfect by birth or the situation. Faheem...
Briefing
KANGAN
The protests following civilian and militant killings in Shopian on the first day of April spiraled across Kashmir. In Kangan area of Ganderbal district,...
Fading Memories
Deep South in a sparsely populated hamlet overlooking Shangus is a man who has lived a century and never used a vehicle. He knows...
Making of a scholar
After a school-going student was tortured to fetch information about a wanted militant, he got severe retina injury that led him to lose his...
Identity and Existence
by Khursheed Wani
A common refrain in Kashmir is that even domestic feuds have their origins in the unresolved political issue of Kashmir! The more...
The Ocean Thirst
The concrete jungle of Srinagar may be bustling with activity as it expands far and wide. But Zamir Ahmad reports a painful crisis that...
Not In Good Faith
The ground zero debates dominating the spaces of faith and belief indicate divisions and sub-divisions of a society that was considered homogeneous, reports Muhammad...
Trading Blows
Kashmir’s trade and industry is confronted with certain basic issues. But the situation in which it operates for the last nearly 30 years, the...
Briefing
KUD
When Nisha Kumari, a Class 10 student from Kud Basti village in Udhampur district, sat on a hunger strike outside her house, demanding construct...
Letter from the Editor
Kashmir Life has completed nine years of uninterrupted publication and the credit goes to you, dear readers. You gave us the identity of being...
Fault-line Kashmir
That the militancy in Kashmir is a monolith was always questioned by security experts. Now when black flags have started unfurling in parts of...





















