Kashmir Life
Kashmir through my lens
By Durdana Bhat
I don't decide to represent anything except myself, Mahmoud Darwish once said, but that self is full of collective memory.
These words of...
The Muslim intolerance factor
By S.S Qadri
The flare up of issues pertaining to the Muslim community in India, howsoever incipient they may seem, insinuate to the growing fanaticism...
Briefing
BEERWA
A brief video recorded by a teenager has enraged Kashmir. Shot during the day of re-poll by this fleeing boy, who was afraid by...
Following Heart
Instead of following the obvious he chose to follow his heart. Aabid Hussain tells his story
On December 21, 2016, Tabish Gulzar, 22, travelled to...
Between Three Decades
By: Khursheed Wani
The just concluded by-election for the Central Kashmir parliamentary seat was unprecedented. Like the most maligned assembly elections of March 1987, the...
Stopped to Die
Once again ambulance drivers became target of law enforcing agencies while ferrying injured. Aabid Hussain met one driver who survived with a broken arm...
“Why did not 93% people vote and why so many persons came out to...
Shantmanu, the senior IAS officer who is state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) was depressed the whole day on April 9 when an unprecedented situation...
Bloody Sunday
One of the bloodiest polling days in Kashmir’s recent history left 8 dead and over two hundred injured. Zubair Sofi manages to travel through...
Dr Farooq Abdullah
When at the age of 78, Kashmir’s flamboyant politician Dr Farooq Abdullah lost his first ever election in 2014, he was almost written off...
Left with stones only, we turned to be stone pelters
by Ajaz Wani
As the kids in the rest of the country aspire for a decent and joyful life, ours in the Kashmir valley are...
An open letter to an Indian Friend
by Junaid shaida
Dear Pal.
Greetings of the day,
I know it will sound odd of writing an open letter to you rather than adopting so other medium...
The tearful eyes…
by Javeed Ahmad Rather
“Splinters and ashes,
Shrieks and smoke
Noise of wails,
Frightful mourning
Scary gun powder,
Bloody stones,
Borders,
Homes afire
Trenches with skeletons,
Ramparts, and repentant time,
Scattered scriptures,
Wet soil and
Thetearful eyes of...
April 9, 2017: A Day to remember
By: Javid Ahmad Ahangar
“The worst thing that can happen in a democracy-as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about...
KEG condemns intimidation of reporter by a political worker; seeks strong action
SRINAGAR
Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) has condemned the intimidation of a reporter by a political worker in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
Abdul Qayoom Khan, working for...
Budshah Still Lives?
More than 500 years have passed but Sultan Zainulabideen still dominates the governance circuit. Zubair Sofi asks people of eminence and history about the...
