Kashmir Life

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...

Kashmir: The Children of Conflict

By Zahid Mushtaq In the contemporary world, human resource assumes greater importance than the economic and natural resources. A developed and skilled human resource changes...

Student Protests: A New Phenomenon

By: Waseem Parveez Dar Though protests are more of a norm than an exception in this conflict torn state, for last month it has taken...

“When we seek to introspect dialectics of any process, both its negative and positive...

Dr Mir Khalid was born into a prominent civil services’ family in Safakadal, Srinagar. His clinical research has appeared in the British Journal of...

Offline Kashmir

Government’s decision to squeeze internet and ban social media sites has left the tech savvy generation in a fix. From researchers to e-commerce businesses,...

Caught Within

With Delhi unmoved on almost every front, the situation is gradually getting explosive in Kashmir. Tasavur Mushtaq details how the BJP ally in Kashmir...

Polling again?

By: Khursheed Wani Romantic poets have been fascinated by the fragrance of flowers, riot of colours and the darling buds of May. When conflict overtakes...