Kashmir Life
A Septuagenarian’s Marathon
Within hours after taking over, Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed dominated prime time TV without a break. Re-evaluating the “controversial” decisions and statements, R S...
News Notes
Stalled Flag
Since 1952 the state of Jammu and Kashmir was craving for hoisting its state flag. When finally after more than 6 decades the...
A Transformer’s Tale
In a small hamlet in North Kashmir’s Zainagair area called Botingoo village, an erratic electric transformer ends up uniting the villagers despite hardships. Waseem...
Briefing
New Delhi
The mouthpieces of Indian ‘fringe’ groups started trolling Kashmir soon after Mufti began his second stint as JK top executive. First, RSS was...
Madame Ministers
In an “unholy alliance,” two women ministers have secured their berth as junior ministers. By focusing on women power, both female faces in Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s council...
Briefing
Connecticut
A Kashmiri Diaspora couple in US seems believing in an old maxim: For it is in giving that we receive. A big shot in...
Time to Act
After more than two months of negotiations and deliberations PDP and BJP has finally formed government in the state. The March 1st oath ceremony...
Murdering Democracy bit by bit
Mujahid Ul Islam
What more is pitiable in the 21st century, when a State decides what an individual should eat, what religion should one profess...
Smart Agenda
Ideologues of two parties spent two months drafting a ‘smart’ accord. Win-win for both involving give-and-take, many ask if this North Pole-South Pole regime...
News Notes
Liberating Jailbirds
As soon as Mufti Mohammad Sayeed assumed charge as the chief of state, he panned his focus on pro-freedom parties. First he thanked...
Gone With The Herd!
Angry young man Sajjad Gani Lone built his political career on controversies. Finally he reached the cabinet as a BJP ally but is unhappy...
News Notes
Papa’s Boy
Taking strong note of inaction by the police department with respect to absconding associate of infamous government gunman Papa Kishtwari, a local Court...
“I would rate it 5/10. KU is an office; it is yet to reach...
Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University Professor Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi tells Kashmir Life that there is no official ban on research related to Kashmir conflict...
A ‘Different’ Sheikh
He was a Kashmiri rather than an Indian. That is how Sheikh Nazir Ahmad, a NC stalwart who breathed his last on Tuesday, is...
A Linguistically-Infused Cultural Neurosis
Arshid Malik
I wonder as to why my only child, around 10 years old, speaks in Urdu or rather a Bollywoodish mix of Urdu and...
