Kashmir Life
Life in Darkness
Come winters and Kashmir slips into perpetual darkness. If one looks from sky one can see nothing but darkness enveloping the valley. The absence...
Landlords of Lalpora
The rise and fall of Bhat family in Lolab valley coincided with major events in Kashmir history. From once powerful landlords to mere numberdaars,...
Talking Lights
He wanted to be a creative person like his goldsmith father, but in a different field. Mohammad Younis Zargar, whose work as cinematographer was...
Obituary
Gayoor Hassan
(1939-2013)
Noted Kashmiri artist, sculptor and former Principal of Fine Arts College Kashmir, Gayoor Hassan breathed his last this past week at SKIMS Srinagar....
Stoning a Fate!
In a conflict zone like Kashmir anything and everything that offers peace sells like hot cakes. In last two decades many people made fortunes...
News Maker
ARRESTED:
Pacca Danga police in Jammu arrested an absconder, Rakesh Sharma, who was evading his arrest for past eight years. Sharma is accused under section...
Manufacturing Doctors
Every summer, the CET set off a chain of reports about wrongdoings in the process. This year as the High Court sought status of...
News Notes
Rodent CARE
Next time you are in Valley’s lone tertiary care hospital and electricity plays hide and seek, don’t blame PDD! It might be the...
Surviving a Trap
By Nayeem Rather
A scene in Turtles Can Fly (2004), a Kurdish war film set in a refugee camp on Iraqi-Turkish border, where a 12-year-old...
Shimla’s Kashmir Link
Born out of adversity Shimla became second home for Kashmiris fleeing Maharaja’s Begaar system, the very notorious forced labour. Even though Hari Singh fled...
2014: Geelanism Vs soft separatism
Riyaz Masroor
Kashmir has come a long way from 1950s and 60s. Back then, the individuals like Sheikh Abdullah and Bakhshi Ghulam Muhammad would set...
The Mathematical Tragedy!
Enam Lone
Whenever the sound of the word “tragedy” rings in one’s mind, it conjures up something that is seemingly rarer than other happenings, apart...
Hundred Years of Pain
Life became a living nightmare for Peer’s family after their militant son was killed more than a decade back. Suhail A Shah, travels long...
Govt can’t be blamed for everything, people should self introspect: Mirwaiz
KL Report
SRINAGAR
After the recent BOPEE paper leakage scandal got unearthed in the state, Chairman Huriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that the people...
Hurriyat Should Rise Above Ego, Inhibitions And Unite: UJC
KL Report
SRINAGAR
Calling for a complete election boycott in Jammu and Kashmir, United Jihad Council (UJC) Chief Syed Sallah-u-Din Sunday said participation in polls is...
