Kashmir Life
Wicker Worries
As the new GST regime, brought handicrafts to the lowest five percent slab, the small, export-oriented sector is facing a crippling crisis, reports Ishtiyak...
A Picnic Halt
With focus on Gujarat and Maharashtra, the two main states sending hordes of tourists to Kashmir traditionally, nobody in policymaking circles knows that halt...
Questionable Texts
Government schools in Kashmir are the best in human resource and poor in infrastructure. But the major reason for the parents to stop sending...
Briefing
SKICC
It might be creating an adverse reaction on ground but the policy makers think the music is an antidote to militancy. So, after Adnan...
Shadow Boxing?
Six killings in three incidents in Shopian suggest a clear shift that renewed militancy is affecting on ground, reports Tasavur Mushtaq
“All three militants have...
Half Buried
Surrounded by forests and fast sliding hills, a village in Baramulla is now getting deserted as the residents are migrating to safer places. Those...
Remembering Sir Syed
by Khursheed Wani
October 17 evening was unique at picturesque Pahalgam. The fading hoardings with greeting messages for Amarnath pilgrims were out of sync with...
Not Forgotten
Almost two and a half decades after the highway massacre in 1993, the families in Bejbehara still have their lives shattered, reports Saqib Mir
Zainab,...
Autumn turned ugly
by Iqra Nazir
"Arrival, Arrival",
whistled the breeze.
"Of your treasured spell-
That comes to appease.
Autumn, it is
and you will savour.
And you will cherish
this cherished favour".
"Thrawt, Thrawt",
shrieked the...
Shrine Politics
By Javid Ahmad Ahanger
Kashmir, baptized as a fortunate landscape with enormous natural beauty, is a paradise on earth. Because of its multilayered diversity of...
Vital Memories
A book by an Islamabad based journalist Qasim Sajad has added various details to events of kashmir’s contemporary history. But the beauty of the...
Mehand Murders
Homes and properties getting up in smoke are not so uncommon in Kashmir. But blasting a home along with its inmates is something that people...
Lone Survivor
Once it was the most crowded place for patients seeking remedy. As the English system of medicine, overtook the traditional Unani system, Kulgam’s Gopalpora...
Braid Costs
As the mysterious hair-cutting of the womenfolk gets upgraded to a sort of epidemic, Kashmir is witnessing massive costs for its economy and the...
Briefing
LADAKH
After a year, the Romeo-Juliet of Ladakh managed to visit their hometown where they threw their reception party. The bride, Stanzin Saldon, a Buddhist,...
