Kashmir Life
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...
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...
Briefing
PULWAMA
It is twisted but tragic. A news report on a website said a village ‘respectable’ from Muspun village had allegedly sold his divorced daughter...
K Rajendra Kumar
With parliamentary polls days away, MLA Langate Er Rashid had claimed: the ruling National Conference (NC) has appointed K Rajendra Kumar as Special DG...
An Employment Policy That Never Was!
Mir Hussain
The only time politicians are shaken from their slumber is the canvassing period pre-elections and the very brief period after its results are...
What Next?
With 20:20 over, Kashmir’s Reds and Greens are fighting a much tougher battle over the vote later this year. Shah Abbas explains the possible...
Letter to Narendra Modi, from Kashmir!
Irtif Lone
Dear Narendra Modi Ji,
I have had this urge to write to you for a long time now. Or probably it looks long since...
News Makers
BOOKED:
The Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) has booked top brass of IRCON International Limited and at least 15 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in two major...
A Defeat and A Boycott
Why NC lost the game and how the separatist boycott influenced the outcome, an analysis by Nazir Hussain
On May 7th after the last vote...
