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.
‘We Draw Our Identity From Our Mother Tongue’
Playwright Muhammad Amin Bhat told Khalid Bashir Gura after being elected as president of Adbi Markaz Kamraz.
Kashmir Life (KL): What drove you to...
Dog Bite Cases Bite Govt’s Response
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: As the dog bite cases continue to rise, the government’s claims to address the issue also continue to fall at...
New Bird Flu
With people desperate for a vaccine to manage the Covid-19, a pandemic that has killed two million people worldwide, the new bird flu has...
1000 Years After Death, Bollywood Gets Kashmir Queen Into Controversy
SRINAGAR: Kashmir queen died in 1003 and more than a thousand years later, she has landed in a controversy, thanks to Bollywood. A producer...
The Raffughar
While obediently following his parents’ dreams of chasing for a medical school seat, a young boy was fascinated by a painter’s brush. Finally, when...
Shishur To Vahrat, Kashmir’s Alternative Calendar
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: As Jammu and Kashmir Bank’s famed wall calendars will not don the cold household walls this year, Ghazal Qadri a...
Cast In Stone
A mosque constructed by the most celebrated Mughal Queen, Nur Jahan, in the heart of Srinagar fought a lot of negative narratives to survive...
Meet The Orphan Who Topped SSB’s Panchayat Accountants Examination
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: After the elected government crumbled under its won weight, the government halted the process of hiring people. The long lull...
Mission Wushnaer Helps Underprivileged To Stay Warm In Winters
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: On the Phase-II of the Mission Wushnaer, a serpentine queue of unprivileged people waited in the lawns of Lal Bazar’s...
Meet The Man Who Has The History Of Topping All His Examinations, Everywhere
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Soft-spoken, Dr Mohsin Raj Mantoo, 27, has added many feathers in his cap as he has topped three national-level Super...
Ostracised, Stigmatised During Covid-19 Infection, Dal Man Builds A Floating Ambulance For The Lake...
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: On a cold winter morning, as the weak, wintry sun struggles to emerge, empty Shikaras bob in the greyish Dal Lake, at Ghat...
How This Daughter Emerged A Poor Family’s Game Changer?
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Shaista Bashir a resident of Gund Roshan in Ganderbal has made her parents proud by qualifying National Entrance Eligibility Test...
Delhi Arrests: Police In Punjab, Delhi Differ As Kashmir Families Protest
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: A day after an “encounter” in Delhi’s Shakarpur area, the versions of the police in Delhi and Punjab are at...
‘Boredom Has Resulted In Depression, Trauma And Suicide Tendencies’
Dr Zaid Ahmad Wani, Child Psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Kashmir tells Khalid Bashir Gura
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Schools in Kashmir...
In Unpredictable Kashmir, A Father Fights A Daughter
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Kashmir has always remained unpredictable. Nobody knows what happens when and what could be the consequence of an event. Within...
