Kashmir Life
60,000 new Employees
Appointing daily wagers has been a favourite pastime of the politicians who have ruled and misruled Kashmir for a very long time. Every minister...
Aquatic Concertina
Protesting boys might be happy that they successfully pull the concertina barricades barring them from crossing the bridges and throw it into the river....
PDP Sonrise
By Khursheed Wani
Winters have been quite happening days for Kashmir’s ruling Muftis’ for the past several years. They got a fractured mandate three years...
Briefing
DELHI
Kashmir’s Dangal star Zaira Wasim, 17,was in news recently when she took to Instagram alleging she was molested on Delhi-Mumbai Vistara flight by a...
Militant friends in Ikhwan Town
Amid a raging debate over how Hajin, the fountainhead of erstwhile ruthless counter-insurgency, became militancy’s posh address, Shams Irfan spent days in the belt...
Apple Effect
As the Kashmir periphery is witnessing a literal mass conversion of rice fields into apple orchards, the changes manifesting itself by serious ecological tensions...
Dog Feeder
At a time when Srinagar is India’s dog-bite capital, a former bus driver collects throw-away from butchers and chicken dressers and feeds many packs...
Sameer Koul on Cancer in Kashmir
A surgeon for nearly three decades, Dr Sameer Koul has a global exposure in managing the people afflicted by cancer. He has never stopped...
Kashmir Media In Peril: A situation report by IFJ
International Federation of Journalists has released a brief report about the situation of Kashmir. In the larger public interest, it is being published here....
Editorial
Cold Welcome
With next tourism season just a few months away the big question remains: are we prepared to host a million tourists? Or more...
Briefing
BARAMULLA
It shocked people, including some in the government, when police booked Tanveer Ahmad War, a handicapped, for his involvement in 2016 unrest. War’s tricycle...
Dineshwar Effect?
With the separatist triumvirate taking an anti-talk stand, Prof Abdu Gani Bhat emerged out of margins to defend his meeting with Delhi’s point man...
Understanding Kashmiri
The only Englishman who is more famous in Kashmir than the UK is Sir Walter R Lawrence, the man who’s functioning as Kashmir’s land...
Smart Technique
A young man who studied industrial techniques in the state-run polytechnic college skipped a job hunt and instead set up a vocational training centre....
In Pellet Deluge
Orphaned as a child, he helped his sisters settle. As he raised his family, the floods decimated his home. Then the labourer started dreaming...
