Kashmir Life
Yearning for Mother
Bilal Handoo
Last year on Mother’s Day, Tabasum’s face was beaming with smile. Her younger sibling, Murassa was too cheerful. 365 days after, the day has...
Police arrests eight ‘miscreants’
KL Report
SRINAGAR
After police claimed to have identified the people who harassed and assaulted passengers in North Kashmir, Police Saturday in a statement said eight...
Hurriyat (M) calls for shutdown on May 21
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday appealed people to observe complete shutdown on May 21.
Mirwaiz was addressing congressional meeting at Jamia Masjid...
The Axed!
In the garb of the decadal conflict, the state of affairs was hit left, right and centre in the valley. Neither sports nor sportspersons...
Digital Dreams
As India starts to digitalize its cable network, people in Kashmir stick to cables for love of Pakistani channels. Safwat Zargar talks to the...
Briefing
CHENNAI
Indhu Rebecca Varghese, the widow of Major Mukund Vardarajan who died in a deadly encounter with militants in Shopian has used poetry to pay...
Silvery Landscape
R S Gull
As the sun shines over the mountains, it seems as if it has lit up the soil and the stones. For the...
Think Again
Three days after 26-year-old Bashir Ahmad Bhat from Nawakadal was killed in CRPF firing a major part of Srinagar city continues to be under...
Parents apparently
Arshid Malik
When we were kids we used to be such gluttons that our parents would more than often upset with us for we would...
The Forgotten Poet
by Mir Liyaqat Nazir
Alam ha kar yaaad Azaad! Azaad!
Kune SaTeh Wuchita yaad pawyee Madnowe.
(One day the whole world will remember Azad
Oh my beloved any moment...
Bashir Ahmad Bhat
Ballot, boycott, bullets and finally blood marked April 30, 2014 - the Election Day in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency. The day till evening was...
Not a Holiday!
By: Shams Irfan
On 30th of April, just when the day’s sun was about to set on the vast horizon shadowing historic Jamia Masjid, a...
Unpredictable
High Altitude Battle
Unlike the last four phases in J&K, the last one involving Ladakh and Baramulla is being contested by parties so intensely that...
News Notes
Bloody APRIL
Twenty-one persons including six civilians were killed in the month of April this year. So far 11 Civilians have got killed in the...
A Perfect Getaway
With winters extending up to May, Indian budget tourists find Kashmir a perfect getaway from scorching heat of the plains. But the skyrocketing airfare...
