Kashmir Life
Do You Know Kashmir Dancing Girl, Begum Sumru Owned A Kingdom In North India?
by Ashok Ogra
A four-and-a-half-foot-tall girl picked up from the streets of Delhi by a Kotha owner went on to rule a prosperous kingdom for...
Briefing August 13-19, 2023
KASHMIR
Mumbai's cricket sensation, Sarfaraz Khan, recently entered the limelight not for his batting prowess but for his union with a Kashmiri bride in a...
Doodhpathri: An Introduction
Having its charm of untamed, raw beauty, Doodpathri, a 2-hour drive from Srinagar, has pristine surroundings that create a sense of wilderness, adventure and...
Why Friends Are Vital To An Individuals Well Being?
by Hurmat Altaf
“If you want to identify someone’s character, examine the friends he sits with.”
Hazrat Ali (RA)
This quote has always piqued my consciousness since...
Briefing August 5-12, 2023
KULGAM
Rifleman Javed Ahmad, 25, who went missing on July 29, not far away from his home, has been recovered from an orchard in Chawalgam...
Tyndale Biscoe: An Unconventional Educator
After giving nearly 60 years to alter the course of Kashmir’s education, CE Tyndale Biscoe left the Vale reluctantly in 1947, only to live...
Why Does Entire Life Feel Like An Investment In Suffering?
by Ghulam Mohammad Khan
“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”
Emile M Cioran
Remarkably, we possess the ability...
Briefing July 30 – August 5, 2023
MUHARRAM
Jammu and Kashmir government permitted Muharram 8 mourning procession in Srinagar after three decades. The procession starts at Guru Bazar and concludes at Dalgate...
Is Education Transformation the Key to Success in the 21st Century?
by Bhat Hilal
“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and...
Kashmir’s Imambara’s Are Finest Specimens of Indigenous Architecture
by Syed Iliyas Rizvi
“To be honest with you, when I arrived in Kashmir, I immediately recognised the kindred relationship with the Central Asian Countries....
Chatlam’s Identity Crisis
Despite being distinct from almost every other wetland across Kashmir, Chatlam is off the radar. Host population believes that it can emerge as a...
Have The Schools And Colleges Become Obsolete?
by Er Sheikh Aaqib
Our classrooms prepare students for a world that no longer exists.
Does not it look ridiculous that a decades-long learning process engulfs...
Briefing July 23-29, 2023
FRANCE
During his recent Paris visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted a hand-knitted Kashmiri silk carpet to Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the French National Assembly....
Why The BG 3rd Semester Results Did Not Surprise College Teachers?
by Safeer Ahmad Bhat
Presumably, creating and sharing reels on Instagram is more appealing to them than academics. Libraries and reading halls are empty and...
Like Father, Like Daughter
Muskan Fatima writes about the family of Prof Nooruddin, Kashmir’s first mathematician and the first VC of the University of Kashmir, most of whose...
