Kashmir Life
Briefing
DELHI
Kashmir’s Dangal star Zaira Wasim, 17,was in news recently when she took to Instagram alleging she was molested on Delhi-Mumbai Vistara flight by a...
Militant friends in Ikhwan Town
Amid a raging debate over how Hajin, the fountainhead of erstwhile ruthless counter-insurgency, became militancy’s posh address, Shams Irfan spent days in the belt...
Apple Effect
As the Kashmir periphery is witnessing a literal mass conversion of rice fields into apple orchards, the changes manifesting itself by serious ecological tensions...
Dog Feeder
At a time when Srinagar is India’s dog-bite capital, a former bus driver collects throw-away from butchers and chicken dressers and feeds many packs...
Sameer Koul on Cancer in Kashmir
A surgeon for nearly three decades, Dr Sameer Koul has a global exposure in managing the people afflicted by cancer. He has never stopped...
Kashmir Media In Peril: A situation report by IFJ
International Federation of Journalists has released a brief report about the situation of Kashmir. In the larger public interest, it is being published here....
Editorial
Cold Welcome
With next tourism season just a few months away the big question remains: are we prepared to host a million tourists? Or more...
Briefing
BARAMULLA
It shocked people, including some in the government, when police booked Tanveer Ahmad War, a handicapped, for his involvement in 2016 unrest. War’s tricycle...
Dineshwar Effect?
With the separatist triumvirate taking an anti-talk stand, Prof Abdu Gani Bhat emerged out of margins to defend his meeting with Delhi’s point man...
Understanding Kashmiri
The only Englishman who is more famous in Kashmir than the UK is Sir Walter R Lawrence, the man who’s functioning as Kashmir’s land...
Smart Technique
A young man who studied industrial techniques in the state-run polytechnic college skipped a job hunt and instead set up a vocational training centre....
In Pellet Deluge
Orphaned as a child, he helped his sisters settle. As he raised his family, the floods decimated his home. Then the labourer started dreaming...
Rebel Cops?
Occasionally, some of the young men recruited by various uniformed services in Kashmir desert and join the rebels. Though a proper investigation by their...
A Model Family
Umar Khurshid reports a family in which a blind man runs a provision store to feed his ailing, aged mother and blind sister
Mukhti Begum, 70,...
Ahmedabad First
by Khursheed Wani
A day after Delhi’s special representative for Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma concluded his second visit to the embattled state, the security establishment began...
