Khalid Bashir Gura
A Mass Communication and Journalism postgraduate from the University of Kashmir, Khalid is a writer by choice and a journalist by chance.
Kashmir Psychotherapist’s Turkish Tales
Yaqeen Sikander, a Kashmir psychotherapist was at the forefront of delivering psychological aid when a massive earthquake hit Turkey. He tells Khalid Bashir Gura...
Kashmir’s First Gentlemen Contest
Given the power, an elected enjoys, the elections across the world are a cut-throat race that involves everything from mudslinging to scandalising people. For...
GMC Unrest Over Blasphemous Incident Sparks Concern Amid Calls for Calm
by: Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have filed a First Information Report (FIR) against a medical student at the Government Medical...
Pir Panchal: Challenging Areas, Interesting Politics
Polling was supposed to stamp the Mughal Road to reach the Jhelum Valley through the newly created trans-Pir Panchal constituency. In stage one, the...
Ladakh’s Saffron Drought
In 2019, BJP won Ladakh for helping the region break away from Jammu and Kashmir and emerge as a UT. Five years later, the...
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...
