Kashmir Life
Unmaking Srinagar
Almost half a century after creating a full-fledged development authority to help Srinagar become a modern city, Kashmir’s capital is struggling to survive even...
Smile Please
First, it was emperor Jehangir and then Irish poet Thomas Moore, who sung in praise of Kashmir. Then Bollywood took over to reiterate that...
A Great Man We Should Know
by Mehdi Khawaja
“Knowing him has been an education.”
Edward Said
“By which mirror Eqbal, in his clear undertone, still plots to end all human pain?”
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Rare Judgement: Kashmir Court Awards Death Sentence
In 2005, a minor baby of around six years went missing in Mehjoor Nagar. It triggered a crisis as there were no leads anywhere....
The world outside
by Younis Kaloo
Five-month pregnant Rashida crossed the road and sat on the concrete step of a shop owned by a prominent businessman of the locality,...
“Kashmir has the most professional journalists”
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) recently released Kashmir Media In Peril: A Situation Report about the state and status of media in Kashmir. While...
Hillock Secrets
Small hillocks are holding bigger secrets in some villages around Awantipore. A serious effort by the archaeologists can help trace Kashmir’s distant past, reports...
The KAS Case
Kashmir’s participation in the state civil services has remained phenomenally low, historically. This year of the 51 candidates, who cracked the examination, only 13...
Briefing
BATMURRAN
In last two weeks, the pictures of two toddlers who lost their mothers to stray bullets sent social-media into instant mourning. The first...
Kashmiri Identity
By Dr S Khurshid ul Islam
Valley of Kashmir is a separate geographical, social, culture and political entity. When we consider its language, culture,...
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...
