Kashmir Life
Towards Appreciating Mehjoor
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh flew to Srinagar to launch a postal stamp in memory of Mehjoor, Kashmir’s national poet, 60 years after his...
My Uncle Never Came Back
The everyday images of conflict and death that emerged in last two decades are imprinted on almost every Kashmiri’s mind. Nazir Ahmad, recalls one...
News Makers
SHOT DEAD:
Kifayat Ahmed Mir, 40, resident of Sopore, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Buripora. Mir received four bullets in head and chest....
Briefing
CHAMLYAL
Perhaps for the first time, the yearly Baba Chamlyal Mela festival falling on the India Pakistan border in Ramgarh witnessed participation of seven serving...
Resurgent Militancy?
An ambush in city outskirts killed eight soldiers on the eve of Prime Minister’s visit. It was continuation of serious assaults on security set...
Leather Lackluster!
Due to highest per capita consumption of mutton and beef, Kashmir is major exporter of raw material to leather industry in North India. But...
Poet of Resistance
Mehjoor lent his poetry to Kashmir’s fight against monarchy and once it was over, he became disgruntled with the political turnout, and died a...
Salman Khursheed
Salman Khursheed
He still remembers how he lost his pet rabbit to Army cantonment in Srinagar. Then the former Convent student said something, which India...
Salman Sayings
Congress’s state president Prof Saif ud Din Soz deserves credit for getting the foreign minister to Srinagar and encouraging him to talk as much...
Young Novelist
Shaken by the events of 2008 Amarnath land row agitation, 17-year old Towfeeq Wani decided to pen down his newly found consciousness of his...
News Notes
CET CONTROVERSY
The Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) once again put the state of J&K to shame. First they were involved in leaking the...
Language of Love
After her husband’s death, Aziza tried hard to come to terms with the loss, but she couldn’t. With nobody except a pair of goats...
An Enigma
They came, they saw and they left. Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi’s high profile visit left almost everybody fuming, including their political allies in...
Inconvenience not regretted
M Ahseem
Unlike other states of India, visit of someone of the caliber of PM to the trouble torn state of J&K has to be...
Taming Panchal
It took more than a century to realize Maharaja Pratap Singh’s dream of having an all weather access route out of Kashmir valley. Finally...
