Kashmir Life
Intent Matters
Zamir Ahmad
Jammu & Kashmir is about to have a new elected government in place. If newspaper reports are to be believed, the two largest...
Cast Away
They have lost everything to floods but hope and their favourite toys. Living in makeshifts tents these tender souls have created a new life...
News Notes
Breaking Lull
Breaking his silence over the government formation in Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (PDP) patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed asserted that his party...
Future Perfect
The upcoming Rajya Sabha elections for four vacant seats of J&K have unfolded the future political alliances including the first ever contrasting one. Shah...
Tral Trap
Amid claims of Kashmir bouncing back to halcyon days, army sees Tral as the new ‘militant hotspot’. The latest clash saw two fresh militant...
Parvaaz-e-Pakhtun
More than a century back, escaping tribal wars and British onslaught, Pashtun’s from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkwa sought refuge in Kashmir. Safwat Zargar spends a...
Obama’s Change
US president Barak Obama’s silence over K-issue and his bonhomie with Indian PM Modi signals end of an era for hopeful Kashmiris. Shah Abbas...
Acquitted, A Generation Later
NIA has established that Liyaqat Shah was framed by Delhi Police and has suggested action against a few. But how the government will give...
Pursuit of Helplessness
Aseem Ahmad
The landmark visit of US president Barak Obama to the largest democracy in world last week does reflect India’s growing influence in the...
Homecoming!
With BJP-PDP alliance finally turning out to be a reality in trouble torn Kashmir, Mufti’s are busy preparing the ground in Jammu for the...
Briefing
UJJAIN
A part of history will be lost forever when a 1946 Dakota aircraft that B K Birla Group owned and used will be dismantled...
Tariq Hamid Karra
Tariq Hamid Karra
Former Finance Minister, famous for his dual currency idea, was declared ‘Man of the Match’ last year when he emerged victorious by...
News Notes
Financial Crunch
This past week, a letter was dispatched from the office of JK Governor NN Vohra to the Finance Minister. The content of the...
Rolls on Roads
A management student’s search for an authentic burger led to opening of Kashmir’s first street food chain. Safwat Zargar meets the budding entrepreneur who...
Justice AK-47
Systemic paralysis during militancy’s amorphous years in 1990s saw the closure of formal courts, ‘encouraging’ people to throng mobile informal courts. Safwat Zargar revisits...
