Kashmir Life

Revive Asparagus

Perhaps one of the costliest vegetables that are a powerhouse of vitamins and antioxidants, the Paarglass cultivation can boost the cash crop sector, reports...

Off Track

Saqib Mir spends a night with the residents of a distant Kokernag hamlet to understand how they survive and grow without all the basic...

Barkat’s School

Started by a mother of seven to impart free education to the underprivileged, Buchwara’s Lowood School is now a splendid piece of history. To...

This crisis will give me goose bumps for the rest of my life

Associated Press’s Srinagar based award winning photographer Dar Yasin has been to Afghanistan and many other places but is overwhelmed by the Myanmar crisis...

Technology Addiction

Parents are frequently talking about their kids using smart phones and other communication gadgets for ‘time-pass’. It is gradually leading to addiction and to...

Singh and the Sangh

The apparent semblance of a normal Kashmir led Rajnath Singh, the Home Minister, and Dr Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister, visit Kashmir. Notwithstanding...

Pulwama’s Martyrs Day

The follow up to 1931 upheavals in Kashmir are scattered and sketchy. Almost 500 people were killed across Kashmir in the protests that erupted...

Briefing

NEW YORK Zehru Nissa, the health reporter for Greater Kashmir bagged ICFJ’s Global Health Reporting Award 2017 for one of her reports that detailed the...

Beating the Parkinson’s Law

by Zubair Lone Have you experienced a scenario where you had been literally sitting idle on a task, paralyzed and incapable of working, for weeks...

An Unfulfilled Dream

By Samvartha ‘Sahil’ The board outside the Main Theatre (MT) at my alma mater Film and Television Institute of India serves the purpose of announcing...

Briefing

GULMARG An adventure race is taking place. Named Expedition India 2017, a Johannesburg-based adventure company Kinetic Events in collaboration with the state’s tourism department and...

Towering Problems

With a height of 7.3 ft, Iqbal Doonu must be Kashmir’s tallest man. But the problems associated with his figure have grounded him, literally....

“Infertility in Kashmir has now emerged as a new challenge”

Doctor Syed Sajjad runs ‘Med Age’, an infertility clinic in Sringar. Umar Mukhtar talks to the expert about the state and status of the...

Pellet Debts

After their youngest son was hit by pellets at the peak of 2016 unrest, Rasheed and Wazira Sheikh borrowed a lot of money from...

Shelving Foliage

Apple growers in parts of South Kashmir are helplessly watching premature leaves fall in their orchards. It usually follows by the abrupt fall of...