Khalid Bashir Gura
Dissimulating the Pain?
The voter is seemingly angry and frustrated in Jammu, the erstwhile Nagpur of right-wing. Will this lead to a change in the region’s political...
Udhampur: A Rajput Fight
Of the dozen-odd candidates in the fray for the Udhampur LS seat, the contest is between Congress and BJP, represented by Rajputs, Lal Singh...
Organising Zakat
A group of well-read and well-meaning officers and academics have joined hands and created a trust to manage Kashmir's Zakat and other charities. Khalid...
Protecting the Past: INTACH’s Initiative to Safeguard Kashmir’s Manuscript Heritage
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: The majority of the manuscripts in custody of public repositories or private possessions are facing a serious survival crisis as...
A Friend In Deed
Down south in Waltengu Nar, Khalid Bashir Gura met a wheelchair-bound shopkeeper whose life moved from one tragedy to another. Without giving up, he...
Kashmir’s Bird Chronicler
Living with birds that co-exist in the surroundings of a South Kashmir wetland made Parvaiz Yousuf curious about avian life in Kashmir. Now he...
Waltengu Nar: A Hamlet of Broken Bones
As the distant down-south Waltengu Nar village was slowly recovering from the 2005 tragedy, where over 180 residents were frozen to death by a...
Undoing the Indelibility
For ages, people have been undergoing a very painful process of engraving symbolic memories for the sake of their beliefs, love and life lessons....
The Cashmere Content
At a time when efforts are underway to request the search giant Google to add Kashmiri to its translation services, Khalid Bashir Gura met...
How Skin Reveals An Individual’s Drug Addiction?
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: At a time when substance abuse is on the rise in Kashmir, a dermatologist serving the SKIMS Medical College, Dr...
World Mental Health Day 2023: Embracing a Quality Community Mental Health Services Will Be...
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: In a highly automated world where physical health retains priority, the reality that there is no health without mental health...
A General Diary
Lt Gen JKS Dhillon’s autobiography that Penguin published earlier this year offers one side of the Kashmir story. It offers a peephole view of...
Property Tax Controversy
Abandoned many times in the recent past, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has started the process of imposing a property tax that is estimated...
The Reasi Lithium
The Geographical Survey of India (GSI) revelations that Reasi hills hold vast treasures of rare and expensive lithium have triggered hopes of a better...
Turkey Disaster
As a shallow, inland earthquake of a huge magnitude flattened a vast belt straddling the border between Turkey and Syria killing thousands of people...