Kashmir Life
Ah, Baila
A small village that lived on the banks of a torrent witnessed a literal change in its geography after 2014 floods devoured most of...
Historian Hasan Shah
One of Kashmir’s reputed chroniclers of his time, Pir Hasan Shah Khoihami (1832-98), had taken pains in collecting various documents of historic importance. Author...
2-Wheeled Orchestra
Once made popular by the Bollywood, the complex two-wheelers are making a gradual comeback to the Kashmir road after a brand new showroom makes...
Rice Thresher
A young boy who grew up in the lush green paddy fields understood the enormous costs in sustaining agriculture. Finally, he devised a mechanical...
Master Confessions
A master wood carver who says he carved the UN logo in the 1970s, still adorning the wall of the General Assembly is desperate...
Being at Work: The Power of the Mundane
Zubair Lone
Aristotle uses the word hexis to describe moral virtue, an active state wherein a person is ever ready to act rightly. For instance,...
Briefing
BANIHAL
Kashmir IRS officer Afaq Ahmed Giri will sail to the Antarctica, the South Pole, to study various aspects of climate change. As a member...
I belong to J&K till my retirement, no discussion, no discount: Basant Rath
by Tasavur Mushtaq
“Saavdhaan bachay! Helmet pehan lay nahin tou Basant Rath pakad lega" (Beware child! Put on your helmet. Otherwise Basant Rath will catch...
Yousuf Nadeem
Mohammad Yousuf Rather known to Kashmir newspapers as Yousuf Nadeem was killed by an unidentified gunman last week. An employee with the Power Development...
Briefing
JAMMU
NC’s most vocal lawmaker from NC, Akbar Lone, was alone in the state assembly when the members of ruling BJP lawmakers shouted anti-Pakistan slogan....
Slippery Grounds
by Khursheed Wani
In late February 2015, the PDP and BJP finalized the Agenda of Alliance draft, a roadmap for the first coalition between the...
Sabzar Enigma
A bookish man who stayed away from tensions, was frightened by tear-smoke shells, spent eight years in studying; far away from his picturesque home...
Virtual Yarbal
As the global village gradually shrunk to a smartphone, the people in the interesting times ruled by the information technology, created their own spaces...
Scholar with a gun
When Lolab’s Mannan Wani drove from AMU to join rebels, everybody within and outside the security grid started asking: “Why did an AMU scholar...
Sunjwan Strike
As the rattling guns broke the early morning slumber inside the sprawling Sunjwan garrison in Jammu on February 10, the action and reaction lasted...
