Kashmir Life
Dried Up
Once witnessing a huge inflow of migratory, many of Kashmir’s wetlands have dried up. Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
At least seven wetlands have lost into...
Walaykum Salam Ladishah Drav
Confined to radio and television studio’s Ladhishah were once the popular street performers, enriching Kashmir with satire and humour. Aliya Bashir reports
Asalaam Malaiqum Ladishah...
Missing paper trail
The art of producing one of the most long lasting and durable paper was mastered in Kashmir much before the advent of paper mills....
Hay days
A few strings of straw woven to make slippers were common footwear, not so long ago. Waseem Ahad reports.
Whenever Mohammad Akbar Pala, 70,...
Rangarajan III
Rangarajan committee has submitted its report on employment generation in J&K. Will the recommendations see implementation or will it meet the same fate as...
Engaging the Generals
Resumption of diplomatic engagements between India and Pakistan may not be helpful unless, experts say, India talks directly to the Pakistan military. Iftikhar Gilani reports.
Red and Green
Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti stirred a controversy when she gave a Powerpoint presentation at her press conference, and displayed a state map...
Mosque With Warmth
In the chill of Kashmir’s winters when everyone loves to sit in their cozy homes at leisure, a mosque in the frontier district of...
Denuding Kashmir
Timber smuggling fuelled by a construction boom is causing widespread destruction to the forests in Kashmir in the absence of a coherent forest policy...
‘Imported’ housemaids
Many Kashmiri families are employing girls from outside the state as housemaids. Most of these girls from poor families take the job to help...
Last Days of Maqbool Butt
Kashmir Life reproduces the article published in The Week, a Malyalam Manorama publication (February 19-25, 1984), a week after Maqbool Butt was hanged in...
Revolution
As millions pour into the streets in the Arab World to register their resentment against the corrupt undemocratic regimes, seen mostly as U.S. puppets,...
Social Media Revolution
Social media can be an important tool in organising anti-establishment protests but it can’t be the only one. Excerpts from an analysis by Marko...
Getting wings
Girls in Kashmir are venturing into various new professions. ALIYA BASHIR takes a look on their flight in the aviation sector.
Many Kashmiri girls are...
Tales From The Valley
Kashmir’s narratives are coming to fore, with young writers writing for an international audience. After Basharat Peer’s acclaimed memoir Curfewed Night which talked of...
