Kashmir Life
Briefing April 10-16, 2022
SHOPIAN
Never touched by any militant, two families of Kashmiri Pandits – who did not migrate in the 1990s, are scarred in their Chotigam village...
Why Is The Woman Being Dehumanized In The Name of Modernity?
by Hurmat Altaf
Freedom of a woman naturally posed a threat to the patriarchal set-up, which has been running for ages. So, patriarchy also evolved...
Kashmir’s Yarkand Links
With Yarkand Sarai, one of the trading landmarks in Srinagar, in the focus of recent government intervention, Kashmir’s Silk Route memories have revived. Scholar...
Briefing April 3-9, 2022
SOPORE
Counter-insurgency continues to be a newsy and noisy affair. Days after the police said the properties where fugitives will be located will be attached...
Why Is India Not Interested In Taking the US Seriously on Delhi Moscow Relations?
by Asad Mirza
The last month has shown the tenacity and astuteness of the Indian foreign policy, and the “correctional change”, which the current polity...
Documenting Migration
The eruption of militancy in 1990 created a situation that is difficult to even imagine now, thirty years down the road. The situation had...
Briefing March 27 – April 2, 2022
JAMMU
During his 2-days Jammu visit, Home Minister Amit Shah was part of CRPFs Raising day parade. He said within three years CRPF may not...
By The Way, Whose Language Is The Urdu?
by Asad Mirza
March 27, 2022, marks the completion of two hundred years of Urdu journalism. The first Urdu newspaper Jam-i-Jahan Numa published its first...
Why The JKSSB Accountancy Question Papers Can Not Be Questioned?
by Malik Javid
After examination, JKSSB asked for representations from candidates on doubtful questions to revise its keys and it received more than 21000 representations...
Garden Polyglot
Now retired, Saqib Mir meets Peer Sirajuddin Shah, who picked up 13 different languages while working in a Mughal garden
Imagine a person who speaks...
Bollywood’s Kashmir Tales
Bollywood has been in love with Kashmir for a very long time. Its tales set and shot in Kashmir have changed with time. This...
Briefing March 2-26, 2022
SRINAGAR
It might sound unbelievable but the fact is that Lt Gen D P Pandey, the commander of the Srinagar based 15 Corps and the...
Exceptional Mirzas’
On the state and status of governance and people in Kashmir prior and after the Dogra rule are a thick volume of letters in...
Briefing March 13-19, 2022
BUDGAM
Soldier Sameer Ahmad Malla, a resident of Lokipora, remained missing for three days and then his corpse was recovered from Labran – Dawash belt...
A Partition Postcard
Khann Ahmad Hilal reviews a trend-setting book on the partition that uses objects to revisit peoples’ memories of one of the worst happenings on...
