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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Kashmir Life

In Love With Textiles

A widely traveled English woman’s love for fabrics and Kashmiri rugs brings her back to the valley despite dealing with consequences of a stroke...

‘Murder by Torture’

Last week, a young man, son of a retired police officer was murdered in the custody of State Police’s Special Operations Group in Sopore....

Bakshi Abdul Qayoom

A scion of Bakshi family and a passionate philanthropist, Abdul Qayoom breathed his last at 73 in Srinagar on August 2 at his residence...

Wetland Versus Sports Field

A concerned citizen and a passionate lover of his immediate environment has stood up to powerful politicians and vested interests to protect a wetland...

Moses In Butho Village?

A myth brought hundreds of devotees from across continents to a remote Bandipore village looking for the grave of Moses. But a demystifying campaign...

Sowing Fruitful Success

He left behind a successful and promising career with top pharmaceutical companies outside Kashmir and decided to return home and do something for himself....

Language And Times

Kashmiri language has evolved in recent times by accepting words and phrases that had nothing to do with the native spoken Kashmiri. It has...

Conviction of a Lonely Mother

Sad and lonely but proud Nabza has lost all her four sons to the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Majid Maqbool tracks the story of...

Kashmir: Fade in, Fade out

Till late nineteen-eighties almost every Bollywood filmmaker would come to Kashmir to treat his audience with the scenic backgrounds from the land of dreams...

From Helper To Lawyer

Mohammad Aslam had come to Srinagar as a domestic helper but is now pursuing a law degree from University of Kashmir. With help from...

Courting Disaster?

Record rush to the Hindu cave shrine has been complimented with record deaths this year. Permitting massive crowds on the treacherous track could trigger a...

MC Kash

From ‘revolutionary’ notes of “I protest, I’ll throw stones, Andneva run!...” to “it’s about Abdul Qadeer and him approaching the dark…” Raoushan Illahi popularly...

Poverty snuffs a life, a family

Historically suicide has been a rare occurrence in Kashmir’s Muslim society but it turned epidemic-like in the aftermath of armed conflict in the valley....

Denying A Level Playing Field

Cement is the only major industrial activity that gets Kashmir a degree of self-sufficiency. But a series of attempts at various levels have been...

Back to Roots

The Unani system of treatment is gaining popularity in Kashmir for its minimal side effects and affordability. Ikhlaq Qadri reports Nothing seemed to work for...