Kashmir Life
A trip to Kousarnag
By Danish Ahmad
Kousarnag- located roughly 141 miles from Srinagar, is considered one of the attractive sites. Every year, thousands of trekkers make the grueling...
Travesty Of Justice
By Mir Suhail
It hurts, deeply. Pellets . Serious crimes.
killings. Allegations .
I wonder if we'll ever live without this
sense of
fear –...
Pangs of Chinar
By Ayaz Nabi Malik & Mohammad Asif Shah
Nowadays everywhere around, several debates and discussions are held regarding the importance of popular culture and consequences...
Kashmiri Leadership & Paths to Resistance
By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai
Nel Noddings, eminent American educationalist wrote in Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War that “Gandhi, convinced...
Champion’s Dream
Her foray into the world of chess started as a hobby. Ranked No 1 in J&K this Jammu girl dreams of winning a world...
Sumantra Bose
Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, Sumantra Bose is a ‘specialist’ studying and analysing ethnic and national conflicts...
Wrestler Remembers
Ace Pahalwan of his time, Mir Mohammad Ismail offers a sketch of the sport’s fall and rise. He tells Javid Sofi that the government...
Love and Longing
Pandits living outside try to stay connected with their roots by recreating the Kashmir in their small dwellings. Marila Latif talks to a few...
“Sheikh Abdullah wanted to be with a secular India, not the India where a...
Mohammad Akbar Lone, third time MLA from Sumbal in Sonwari belt, and former Speaker of state’s legislative assembly, has managed to survive through the...
Not Chickening Out
He left a lucrative job to start something on his own. But the business he chose has stigmas attached. Heena Muzzafar tells how Aamir...
Briefing
PAKISTAN
During the era of ban on social websites, Facebook created a miracle. It reunited a woman with her family after 60 years. Identified as...
Ikhwan Tales
After suspected gunmen shot dead Rashid Billa at his Hajin residence, the Ikhwan tales were again in demand. Shams Irfan visited the belt to...
Rural Remilitarisation
After unprecedented poll cancellation, the government is still clueless about how to halt the slide that could push Kashmir into yet another crisis. The...
In Nature’s lap
by Khursheed Wani
April has never been wet in two decades in a colossal way as this year in Kashmir. The cyclonic circulation induced by the...
Beautiful Bride
By Zubair Arif Shah
Look around
to a beautiful bride
that my homeland is,
unloved,
she sobs for her beloved to come
to caress her tresses
to wipe her tears,
of cypresses...
