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.
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...
IUST Creates Ruhdaar, A Kashmir Made Low-Cost Frugal Ventilator
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The engineers and innovators from Kashmir have created a prototype of a low-cost ventilator. The prototype came to life on Wednesday...
In A First, Kashmir Will Consume Its Own Farm Fresh Apple, This Ramzan
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: It has never happened in Kashmir. The super A-category apple that Kashmir produces would rarely find its way to Kashmir market...
Coronavirus: A Tajik Singer’s Afghan Song Explains Mankind’s Current Predicament
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: An Afghan poem written at the peak of the turmoil has made a grand return to Central Asia. Sung by various...
Kashmir’s Mask Manager
At the peak of despair when people were desperately seeking face-masks as the minimal basic defence against the crippling virus, a manufacturer revived his...
Coronavirus: Can Ostracism Help Control The Virus?
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: As the first victim of the Coronavirus was laid to rest in Sopore Thursday afternoon, a key issue has cropped up...
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and a superstitious clergy, reports...
Coronavirus: Kashmir’s First Patient Flew With 78 to Kerala, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh, before...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The elderly lady who tested positive for the Coronavirus on Wednesday was part of the 41 member group of pilgrims that...
Is PDP Dead?
With almost half of her cabinet and a huge section of lawmakers out of the PDP, will the Mufti Sayeed’s dream project survive the...
UT Tensions
by Masood Hussain
The binning of Jammu and Kashmir’s hollowed special status and bifurcation of the state into two federally administered Union Territories was primarily...
Witnessing The 1990 Crisis
Moosa Raza took over as Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Secretary at a time when Kashmir was changing fast. His memoir reveals newer things about...
Stressed Assets Doubled
As the regulator’s restructuring plan envisaged multiple riders, post-August 5, data indicates that Kashmir has doubled its impaired assets in less than nine months,...
Hyped Initiatives?
Between an over-hyped political outreach and a curtain raiser for investment in Jammu and Kashmir, there was a ‘dirty picture’ and a radical revelation...
The Double Cross?
As cops found their colleague accompanying the most wanted militant in a Jammu bound car intercepted on the highway, it was like a proverbial...
Divulging Details
Barely four months after the government justified undoing of Article 370 by asserting that Jammu and Kashmir’s backwardness was rooted in its special status,...
