Kashmir Life

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...

Interview: AMUs Kashmir Leader

The Aligarh Muslim University Students Union elections 2017-18 were held on December 11, 2017. Sajad Subhan Rather, a Kashmiri research scholar pursuing PhD in...

Briefing

SOPORE On January 6, 1993, the apple town of Sopore resembled a war-zone as BSF personnel resorted to widespread arson and killed fifty-five civilians. Exactly...

In Avanitvarman’s Capital

When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home...

Briefing

NEW DELHI For the first time in 45 years, a feature film shot and produced entirely in Kashmir, titled ‘Kashmir Daily’ is set to hit...

Lethpora Lessons

By Khursheed Wani In Kashmir, a gun battle connected 2017 with 2018. Apparently routine, the encounter actually demonstrates the drastic changes on ground zero. As 2017...

Shared Motherhood

When a couple that had stayed put at the peak of migration of Kashmiri Pandits, died between a year, the responsibility of taking care...

Singer In Need

His modest background and income apart, Mudacer Hassan Dar created a band that sings to raise donations for the people who are in dire...