Kashmir Life

Neglected Discoveries

What lies beneath is the question that has baffled archeologists for long. Perhaps the answer lies in discoveries made on and off. But an...

Islam’s Kashmir Story

For nearly 300 years, Muslim conquerors from Baghdad and Turkey tried to overtake Kashmir, then a strong Hindu kingdom. Kashmir’s Hindu lords once defeated...

Roasting a Living

Abandoned by their families these widows survive by roasting hooves in an overwhelmingly dangerous setting filled with smoke. Saima Bashir writes about their struggle...

Remembrance is Resistance

Mehraj Din Resistance acts as a lynchpin in understanding the struggle of human existence and liberating it from its radicalized “parochial political connotations” will help...

Resume Talks

Every time the governments in India and Pakistan resume diplomacy and wish to move forward on issues of mutual interest, non-state actors get it...

Kashmir’s Nitasha

Her debut novel speaks a long tale of a lost identity and that was precisely why the jury at Man Asian Literary Prize found it...

He’s Lovin’ It

After deserted by his father, the old Srinagar boy acted on his mother’s advice to script an inspiring overseas trade success for himself. Now,...

Market Massacre

Zainakadal in Srinagar’s downtown has witnessed and withstood brutalities, massacres, regime changes, kings and occupiers, without losing its essence. But that was before the...

An Elusive Sarkar

Almost a month has eclipsed since Mufti Sayeed ruled Kashmir. With the governor N N Vohra organizing state administrative council that includes two newly...

Briefing

SIACHEN Ten more soldiers were buried alive in Siachen, the world’s highest battlefield that many suggested should be converted into a peace park. Fighting each...

KV Krishna Rao

Days before VP Singh government would install Jagmohan as an iron-fist ruler in Kashmir, the outgoing governor was up to something. He was frequenting...

Of Police Deserters, And AK-47

Mohammad Raafi SRINAGAR It has happened four times since last March. And every time, it apparently alarmed, if not unnerved, police rank and file. The latest...

Maqbool, Afzal Victims of Unfinished Agenda of Partition, Says Er Rasheed

KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR While paying tributes to Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhat on their anniversaries, MLA Langate Er Rasheed Monday appealed world community...

Meet J&K Para Cricket Team’s Captain Who Is Doing Wonders With Bat and Ball

by Aakash Hassan SRINAGAR: They say that destiny is printed on the palm of the hands, but, what for Amir Hussain Lone who lost both...

SPO Who Fled With AK-47 Arrested in Budgam

KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR Two days after a special police officer (SPO) fled with his colleague’s AK-47 from Old City’s Rainawari Police Station, police Monday said...