Kashmir Life
Safe at School?
by Zubair Lone
The recent deaths of two schoolchildren in Gurugram have evoked a massive response in the form of a justified mix of shock,...
Who are the braid choppers of Kashmir?
by Sameer Bhat
These days Kashmir is having a bad hair day. In the lexicon of fear ‘braid chopping’ is the latest addition. The general...
Kashmiri Haakh
Celebrated by folklore and part of staple food, the collards are as important to Kashmir’s meals as potato is to Ireland. While the land...
Academic Aversion
Unlike 2016, the educational campuses across most of Kashmir had interrupted schedule because the doors would shut more frequently than ever. Muhammad Younis explains...
Half A Year Later
by Khursheed Wani
It is for the first time in 21 years since the governance in J&K was returned to ‘elected representatives’ after six years...
Briefing
SOPORE
Atiqa Bano, the lady behind Kashmir’s first private museum, Miras Mehal, breathed her last this week. Bano, a noted educationist, heritage activist and former...
Arzan Kakh
Pandits left and kept their keys with Muslims. Pandits who stayed back died and were cremated by Muslims. This all is reported already. But...
Press Council of India Report On J&K Media
Press Council of India (PCI) had constituted a sub-committee on December 19, 2014 to examine the Report of Interlocutors on Media and Media Scenario...
It is too dark
By Younis Kaloo
The day is as dark as night
No boundaries of windows, walls and corridors
In the beginning it is dark, so it is at length
Only...
Apple Eating Highway
As the government in Srinagar is gung-ho over a new highway that will traverse the foothills and connect a vast catchment, the crisis on...
Malwan’s Braid Choppers
Mysterious hair cutting incidents started in central India early this year and literally followed the road to Kashmir. Restricted to restive South Kashmir, Kulgam...
Kashmir’s UN Crisis
In autumn when the diplomats and top politicians from India and Pakistan go to the United Nations for long speeches blaming each other for...
Bequeathing Vision
For the first time in history, 13 blind or one-eyed patients underwent eye transplants in Srinagar’s SMHS hospital and started seeing again, some after...
Briefing
SRINAGAR
To counter “perceived negative portrayal of Kashmiris” by the Indian TV, Mehbooba Mufti released a 5-minute tourism film Warmest Place on Earth. The film,...
Public Health versus Health Care
by Zubair Lone
To keep its citizens healthy, governments generally use two modalities to provide holistic health services - public health and healthcare. To a...
