Kashmir Life
Autumn Angling
With harvest over and the Lidder reporting low discharge, hundreds of youth report to the river and take tons of fish home, for most...
Talib Hussain
On January 11, social media in Kashmir went frenzy with updates and hashtags mourning the murder of Zainab, a 7-year-old, of Pakistan’s Qasur city. Almost...
And The Sun Never Rose Again
Review by: Javeed Ahmad Rather
The romantic debut novel And The Sun Never Rose Again is written by a Kashmiri budding writer Jahangeer Majazi, native of...
Address Border First
Kashmir borders, both the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) have turned hugely explosive and terribly deadly. In the first few...
Briefing
Jammu
The Chinars have historically remained a synonym of Kashmir’s beauty after Emperor Jehangir asked: “Chi-Naar”, which fire, after looking at fallen autumn leaves. Once...
Managing 1947 Mayhem
After the erstwhile J&K state was sliced into two halves amid massive demographic upheavals, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was the...
To Bagh-e-Mehtaab
Kashmir has moved from the love for Bollywood to a participant in Bollywood. Zulkifla Shakeel meets Zain Khan Durrani, the latest actor who plays...
Devious Dispossession
At a time when the BJP-PDP government is loudly talking about the new road encircling Srinagar as a major add to manage infra-deficit, nobody...
Bahrar, Kashmir’s last colony for Lepers
by Irtiza Rafiq
Srinagar
A woman, probably in mid-fifties, was busy washing the clothes under what seems to be a common tap of her colony. Engrossed...
Two Bullets, One Tragedy
The two boys were neighbours who would play volleyball on two sides of the net. Eventually one landed in police and another in private...
Beyond Murder
Jammu Muslims are in shock over the recovery of an 8-year-old cute Bakerwal girl’s body, a week after her mysterious disappearance. The tragedy struck...
Rehbar-e-Taleem, KAS
A labourers son living in a backward, nondescript village, Muzaffar was earning as ReT and preparing for KAS, an examination he finally cracked in...
Briefing
HABBA KADAL
Though the new normal in Kashmir periphery, the cordon and search operations (CASO), usually referred as crackdown, made a comeback in the old...
Rebel Recurrence
By Khursheed Wani
Kashmir militancy is replete with surprising stories of the cadre that sustained the anti-India campaign for around three decades, now. Every individual...
Roshni: Srinagar’s 375 kanals fetched 59% Revenue as Govt sold most of 1.58 lakh...
by Masood Hussain
JAMMU: Roshni, the darkest initiative in J&K’s revenue history, was a racket when the Ghulam Nabi Azad government fiddled with the fundamentals...
