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.
Ancient Futures
A social entrepreneur has created a facility on Sindh foothills with a focus on reviving the traditional culture and lifestyle in twentieth-century Kashmir. Apart...
Registering A Case
In certain cases, it is difficult to register even a case. Khalid Bashir Gura meets two families who fought protracted battles in court to...
Fingers Crossed
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
What would...
‘Reinforcing Spirituality Can Be A Powerful Tool To Boost Resilience’
The former head of GMC, Srinagar’s Psychiatry Department, Prof Mushtaq A Margoob has contributed immensely in managing the massive load of mental illness at...
Online Un-learning
The transition from teacher-class based teaching to digital education has not been smooth in Kashmir, nor is it helping students to learn, reports Khalid...
Parsa’s On A Roll
Offering affordable food in upmarket environs, Javed Parsa created a major eatery chain with footprints within and outside Kashmir by operating from a tiny...
Musaib Bhat’s Melody Is a Basket Full of Message
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: For the last few days, the lines reverberating within Kashmir’s Gen-X are: One minute up and one minute down, baby...
Jammu Mayor Sets 2031 As Deadline For Snowfall, Experts Crack Jokes
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: In a video gone viral, BJPs Mayor of Jammu, Chander Mohan Gupta is seen asserting and predicting that by 2031-32...
Boy Who Won 14 Gold Medals Fighting Addiction In A Srinagar Rehab
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: As the sun sets, the orange evening light filtering through the grill windows of Drug De-addiction Centre, Khanyar falls on...
A Distant Observation
The novel that Speaking Tree published early this year is a good attempt to tell the Kashmir story but could have been told better,...
Revealing Records
In his latest book, poet historian Khalid Bashir Ahmad has succeeded in deconstructing myths, mysteries, events, individuals and institutions that dominated the troubled twentieth...
Broken Contract
Hundreds of contractual lecturers working for years at various higher secondary schools and colleges were abruptly disengaged after August 2019. Now, in their late...
Why Has Kashmir Romanticised The Rumour For So Long?
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Rumours and Kashmir have had a long tryst with each other with the former recently causing panic in the valley...
‘We Are Trying To Technologically Equip Our Schools’
Director of School Education Kashmir, Tassaduq Hussain Mir is a busy man these days. He has to ensure that the government schools adopt and...
‘By Late June Or Early July, We May Again Reach The Pre-April Status’
Dr Syed Mudasir Qadri, an Associate Professor of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine at the SKIMS, Srinagar has been in the thick of the fight...
