Masood Hussain
Associated with the Srinagar dateline since 1987, Masood Hussain has served a number of media organisations in the last more than three decades. He served Kashmir Times for around a decade and joined The Economic Times which he left in 2015 after 17 years. He is currently the Editor of Kashmir Life.
Roshni’s Load Shedding
The High Court verdict on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) brought forth the serious crises the 2001 Roshni Scheme had. While the new set...
Gilgit Gambit
A year after the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was rolled back, the Chinese army is on the borders in Ladakh and Pakistan...
‘Unlike Earlier Relief Packages, This One Doesn’t Defer But Reduces The Interest Burden Of...
The shutdown of 2019 was followed by the pandemic lockdown and it has created a crisis for the economic wellbeing. It was in this...
Srinagar’s 10-Year Dog-Bite Number Crosses 55,000
SRINAGAR: It might sound funny but it is a fact. Officials in private interactions see the number of dog-bites as one indicator about the...
Sotheby Sold Rare 19th Century Quran, Handwritten By Kashmiri Artists For Rs 1.29 Crore
SRINAGAR: American auctioneer, Sotheby sold a copy of the nineteenth century Quran written by a Kashmiri artist for more than Rs 1.29 crore (137500...
‘Examinations Will Be Conducted Off-Line’
Jammu and Kashmir’s Education Commissioner Dr Asgar H Samoon tells Kashmir Life, insisting that the department’s experimentation with remote teaching using a sluggish internet speed was...
Gupkar: What Next?
The coming together of six Kashmir based parties on the reading down of Article 370 surprised all, especially New Delhi. Used to no-holds-barred fights,...
‘The Power Games And The Politics Of 1990s Is Too Complicated To Be Unravelled’
Fascinated by stories throughout his life, the great moral booster was when Shabir A Mir’s short story The Djinn Who Fell From The Walnut Tree ended up being...
Gasping For Breath
In the absence of treatment, the basic requirement for managing the Covid-19 cases is oxygen. As the existing infrastructure in the health sector is...
Naipaul’s Kashmir
Trinidad born Indian origin Nobel Laureate Sir V S Naipaul, who died on August 11, 2018, in London was one of the greatest English...
‘I Cannot Forget That Horrible Day, I Broke Down’
Agha Ruhullah Mehdi is the youngest of the Aghas’ of Budgam who made it big in politics after his father Agha Sayeed Mehdi was assassinated...
‘We do not know which strain of the mutating virus is active right now’
Dr A G Ahanger, Director SKIMS Srinagar tell Masood Hussain in a freewheeling interview
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the state and status of the battle against the Covid-19 in...
‘We Need To Prepare Ourselves For The Worst’
Prominent urologist, Dr M Salim Wani was stung by the contagion forcing him to get into nightmarish isolation. Caught between ostracisation and cytokine crisis, he overcame...
Doc, Heal Thyself
The health givers are messiahs in their own right because they help people to live longer, reduce their pain and contribute immensely to the...
‘August 5 Sparked It All’
A scholar of Central Eurasian and Tibetan history Prof Siddiq Wahid, the former Vice-Chancellor of Islamic University of Science and Technology, tells Masood Hussain that the Ladakh happenings...
