Kashmir Life
First Timer’s Raw Ambition
By Khursheed Wani
“Someone asked him what he would count his biggest achievement in life,” Mehbooba Mufti told a group of journalists, before her government...
Briefing
SHOPIAN
Constable Javed Ahmad, 25, was shot dead in Kulgam district by suspected militants after he was abducted from his native Vehil village of Shopian....
Khursheed A Ganai
In the year 2015, when a 1982-batch IAS officer Khurshid Ahmad Ganai was overlooked for the post of Chief Secretary, he took premature retirement....
Painting Pain
Artist Veer Munshi’s world starts and ends with Kashmir, his roots, migration and the crisis in between. Last week, his efforts led to a...
Muneer Ahmad Khan
In February 2018, after jailed Lashker-e-Toiba militant Naveed Jhat, dramatically escaped from Srinagar’s SMHS hospital, leaving behind two dead cops, the then IGP Kashmir...
The Sand Art
When an entire classroom understood the idea of how sand art can be used to explain a situation in one of the world’s most...
Re-engaging With History
Congress set up a committee to read Prof Saifuddin Soz’s book as its release triggered a sort of crisis on TV over Patel’s Kashmir...
Minting Manifestos
As the BJPDP alliance becomes history, the lawmakers from PDP, NC and independents enumerate the incidents and landmarks of the last three year’s rule...
A New Government?
Narinder Nath Vohra is one of the rarest faces on Kashmir front, whose capacity, knowledge and experience are unmatched. He has managed many Kashmir...
The UN Report
by Khursheed Wani
The report on the state of human rights in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, currently divided between the administrative control of...
Partners In Crime
Separated allies of doomed BJPDP coalition have resorted to a new wave of allegations and counter-accusations. But people are unlikely to fall prey to...
When Chips Are Down!
by Kuldeep Khuda
The fluid situation in the state of Jammu & Kashmir over last 70 years and particularly since 1990, helped catalyze emergence of large...
July 2, 1984: The Coup In Srinagar
by Mohammad Sayeed Malik
There is no doubt that Indira Gandhi, having lost faith in Farooq, took advantage of odd events on the ground and set...
When A Journalist Fell
The sequence of events that led to the broad day-light killing of prominent journalist Syed Shujaat Bukhari outside his office in Srinagar's Press Enclave...
The Poet Mentor
by Swati Parashar
The calmness of a perfect summer day in Gothenburg (where I live and teach at the university) was shattered when I received...





















