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.
‘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...
Foreboding Footprints
With the Chinese army incursions finally admitted at all levels, the newer revelations suggest that PLA border operations in Ladakh were an open secret....
A Delayed Darbar
The government offices are finally shifting to Srinagar and the civil secretariat will open early July in Srinagar. Employees will operate from ‘as is...
China And The UT
After Delhi undid the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganised the state into two federally governed Union Territories in 2019, Beijing had...
Downgrading Red Zone
At one point of time, Hajin belt was emerging as Coronavirus hotbed. Though the belt continues wearing the red zone status, the numbers have...
A Barber Deficit
As lockdown restricted people to their homes, hairy individuals are desperate to unburden their skulls. The added tensions are that the hair-styling sector has...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
