Kashmir Life
Right to Protest
Mudasir Ali Lone
An event organized and planned on Facebook got my attention as it was about Asiya and Neelofar, victims of Shopian double rape...
Get Ready For KAS Interview
As the state public service commission last week declared the result of the combined civil service examination, successful candidates will now have to face...
Good Days, Bad Times!
With Modi in PM’s chair and opposition reduced to non-existent entity after a historic mandate, hopes run high among people across ideologies that finally...
News Notes
In Solidarity
Kashmir University last Thursday, a day before anniversary of Shopian ‘double rape and murder’, was different. As the Sun moved overhead, hundreds of...
Modi’s Jairam Deficit
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi started working with his ‘compact’ team, it may require one or many ministers for managing Kashmir informally. R S...
Going Places
He is among a few Kashmiris to undertake research in Switzerland. Shabir Hassan, in an online interaction, tells Riyaz Ul Khaliq that he wants...
Intellectuals and Resistance
Mehraj Din
The indispensability of every struggle revolves around the collective intellectual pool of scholars evolved within the decades of long struggle and resistance. In...
A Nightmare For Life
Nineteen years have passed but the memory of losing her unborn child during interrogation still haunts Shameema. Nuzhat Mushtaq revisits the tragic events that...
Too little, too late
Since last week’s defeat in Lok Sabha elections NC has stepped on the accelerator to gear up for the upcoming assembly elections. There seems...
3 MPs, 6 Tragedies
As three parliamentarians elected in a low poll are flying for oath ceremony, there are six families grappling with uncertain future. Kashmir Life visits...
News Notes
Hate FACTOR
Commenting on the recent humiliating loss of National Conference in Lok Sabha polls, Hurriyat (G)Chairman Syed Ali Geelani on Thursday said that it...
Writer’s Solidarity
It was Maqbool Bhat’s hanging that stirred noted short story writer Akhtar Mohi-ud-din, and made him return his Literary Award. Bilal Handoo reports how...
Cultured Cultures
Arshid Malik
I am genetically averse to the idea of mass modernization. I prefer traditional approaches to living which I figure contribute positively and genuinely...
Man of the Match
In the just concluded Lok Sabha polls, state’s oldest political party was pushed to the knots. But what continues to dominate the table talks...
Modi’s K-Connection
As Modi is elevated to the highest seat of power in India, Kashmir is keeping its fingers crossed. Safwat Zargar revisits history to trace...
