Kashmir Life
Why Can’t Fidayeen Have Their Own Democracy?
by Jahangir Raina
Electoral democracy has not exactly been a complete failure in Kashmir. For a common person like me, it has occasionally succeeded in...
Why Is Kashmir Sacrificed In Perpetuity?
by Junaid Azim Mattu
While the situation in Kashmir continues to deteriorate with each passing day, the conflict remains defined by the same factors that...
Ghulam Nabi Patel
On April 25, 2018, Ghulam Nabi Mir, 65, was killed near Rajpora in Pulwama when unidentified gunmen fired at his vehicle. He died on...
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,...
