Kashmir Life
Lifting Homes
What will you do if your house sinks in? Is it possible to lift it up? Inspired by a television series young entrepreneur starts...
Let’s not Forget
With holy month of Ramadhan in its last phase the air is already filled with festivities. After a month’s fasting people have now started...
News Notes
Quds Day
Thousands of people marched on streets across Kashmir valley on International Quds Day, commemorated on the last Friday of Ramadan throughout the Muslim...
Truly Techie
Qualifying Indian Engineering Services (IES) wasn’t a cakewalk for the son of farmer hailing from a remote village. But as Riyaz Ul Khaliq finds...
“I was forced to leave PTV as my reports frustrated Indian troops stationed in...
It is an unruffled neighbourhood in plush Sanat Nagar locality of uptown Srinagar. In one of the secluded houses, Ghulam Nabi Khayal, 75, a...
New, Emerging India
Irtif Lone
The rhetoric has started, and is probably gaining the momentum. India is taking off the veil of being a secular state. They have...
Pampore 32
Historically NC’s stronghold Pampore tilted towards PDP after main-town chose to boycott elections. With NC struggling to find a tough competitor against PDP’s two...
News Makers
ORDERED:
State revenue department has ordered the placement of 53 Naib Tehsildars as in-charge Tehsildars and 56 NaibTehsildars are asked to look after the work...
Train to Paradise
By: Seema Qadri
Trains, railway tracks and railway stations, whenever I recall them from the long-drawn-out list of memories from my childhood, I would always get...
From an Empath to Psychopath
Arshid Malik
It was always hard to cope with, the incessant angst that enveloped my soul as I lurched forward in the darkness of a...
Ved Prakash Vaidik
Controversies seem ceaseless for the senior Indian scribe. After creating political commotion by meeting Hafiz Saeed, Ved Prakash Vaidik has now stirrup up Kashmir...
Feeling Pain
Every time Israel launches an offensive on helpless Palestinians, Kashmiris feels the pain. Since last week’s aerial bombing of civilian areas in Gaza there...
Ikhwanis of the Yore?
Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad raised vigilantes “Peace Brigade” and used them to suppress pro-Abdullah and pro-Pakistan people. His workers or “Goggas” ran a parallel enforcement...
News Makers
ADMITTED:
State government has admitted before the High court that some people are in possession of hundreds of kanals of land without proper allotment in...
A Cultural Psy-op
For critics, Bakshi’s extravagant Jashn-e-Kashmir festival was aimed to manage public anger after Sheikh was jailed. Raashid Maqbool revisits the era to understand how...
