Kashmir Life

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...

Briefing

Kentucky It was Rock time and “Kashmir” literally broke down internet. Well, the resurgence of an English rock band Led Zeppelin is to be blamed...

Tracking a High

Among the substance abused, Codeine Phosphate has emerged as one of most sought after addicted drug in valley over the years. With police seizing...

Jama’at Line

The controversy that erupted over a unionist leader speaking at a Jama’at organized function ended in drawing clear lines between unionists and separatists. Shah...

Panic Movement

Panic Movement Three days of non-stop rains created havoc in Kashmir. It was déjà vu moment for people living near river banks in Srinagar and...

Alliance of Opportunism

Mohammad Ahseem The tragedy of modern day alliance politics professed in a multi party system like in India is severely undermining the ideological commitments that...