Kashmir Life
“There will be sweeping demographic changes”
J&K’s six time finance minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, the NC leader who has worked as a member for the state autonomy committee and was...
Desert Apples
They are only four people who operated from a small office outside Leh’s airport. With an active support system within the organisation and the...
Agenda of Antagonism?
When allies seek and not extend support in court rooms, the alliance is reduced to marriage of convenience, reports Tasavur Mushtaq
Shortly after he was...
Guru’s Last Days
Congress government exercised so haste that Tihar jail failed even in arranging a professional hangman to work the gallows for hanging Afzal Guru. TV...
Survived, Thrived
He was in second grade when an accident left his arms amputated. For next three years he shuttled between hospitals in Kashmir. Then he...
A Haunted Hill
As the Supreme Court has issued a fresh notice to the army, CBI and the Central Government seeking explanation for closing the case of...
Briefing
POONCH
They fired at each other and killed many people from the two sides. It jammed life in the belt and forced a halt on...
‘Distortions in (Kashmir) narratives often served the interests of rulers’
Khalid Bashir Ahmad explains his Kashmir: Exposing the Myth behind the Narrative
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What could be the reasons that the “untruths” you have...
Prelude to 35A
A God forsaken country, located deep into Himalayas, Kashmir would play host to anybody and everybody. Criminals, deserters, rebels and preachers – people with...
Chain Kooks
Son of a businessman, Nasir Amin studied management and then opted to create his own food chain in south Kashmir that is now run...
Briefing
PULWAMA
J&K Bank, state’s main financial power house, has finally rehabilitated the family that was devastated after their young girl died within an hour after...
Between Two Deaths
When the counter-insurgency grid finally confirmed that the salt-and-pepper man slain in a dusky Shopian village was Yasin Itoo, they knew it was extra-ordinary....
Freny Manecksha
‘Behold, I Shine,’ a book written by Freny Manecksha, an independent journalist who has reported extensively from Kashmir, covering human rights and development issues,...
Editorial
Industry Incentives
In the various debates revolving around GST implementation in J&K, apprehensions were expressed by the industry regarding continuation of tax exemptions, available to...
Reengaging Kashmir?
By Khursheed Wani
Contrary to his 2016 speech on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi this time spoke directly about Kashmir and the plight of...
