Kashmir Life
Hear my song
Radio Kashmir employs many visually and physically handicapped as contract employees. Though they earn a meagre sum, for some it is the only source...
Sure sour pie
Couples resort to court marriages, mostly, to overcome parental dissent. However, the notary registration of marriages, which is only valid in J&K is also...
All elements from Kashmir
Renowned neurologist Dr Shusheel Razdan receives a lot of patients from Kashmir - a place where was born, brought up, married and loved. He...
High Way To Destruction
Kashmir is losing a generation to drugs, with medicinal opiates being the most abused substances to get a high. Social stigmatisation is keeping many...
Grit does not need arms
Born without arms, Mohammed Sultan taught himself to write with his feet. He is now pursuing his master’s at University of Kashmir and aspires...
Too Many Tragedies
Scores of mourners carrying the body of slain Mirwaiz in 1990 were killed when forces opened fire on the funeral procession, adding a black...
Caring For Less Privileged
Social service and philanthropy are necessary to take care of the less privileged in the society. With two decades of conflict leaving thousands of...
Chaman Lal Gupta
India’s erstwhile junior defence minister Prof Chaman Lal Gupta is gradually emerging as the parallel leader of the state BJP. Apparently leading the seven...
Numbers Game
The decadal headcount has always kicked up controversies in J&K especially since 1981. Census Commissioner Farooq Ahmad Faktoo in an interview with Ikhlaq Qadri,...
More Stars for Kashmir
A five-star hotel conceived by Sheikh Abdullah and businessman Khawaja Saif-ud-din Baba took more than thirty years to complete. With a management contract with...
Newsmakers
DEVASTATED: Baramulla’s vast commercial belt was devastated in a massive conflagration. Apart from 10 houses, 200 shops and godowns were destroyed in the Auqaf...
Kashmir’s War Journalists
From Afghanistan to Libya, Iraq to Thailand, the world gets to see the conflict through the cameras and pens of war-groomed Kashmiri journalists. P...
Sangh On Sale
The BJP won a historic mandate in Jammu - 11 of the 87 seats in 2008 state elections after enforcing an economic blockade on...
The Proud Farmer
Dr Gazalla Amin gave up a career in medicine to venture into farming and turned a successful entrepreneur. Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
She cherished her childhood...
Headcount 2011
As always, a year ahead of the actual headcount comes the provisional statistics of the census. It came last month. Limited to a few...