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.
New City Set-up
Messed by trash and waste for generations over the decades, capital Srinagar city have grown haphazardly with clear lack of developmental forecasting. As J&K...
Google Gets In
With J&K exhibiting one of the highest cell phone penetration rates in India, data dependence is luring searching giant Google into the state, very...
“Instead of reporting to the Chief Minister, certain PDP ministers report to their RSS...
Termed king-slayer after he defeated Dr Farooq Abdullah, Tariq Hameed Karra resigned PDP at the peak of 2016 unrest. After a two quarter pause,...
Faithfully Disowned
As the ruling bipolar grouping gets into second year of its version 2.0, tensions are increasing within the small Muslim minorities scattered across Dogra...
Hari Singh A Despot, Not A Hero
by Krishan Dev Sethi
Hari Singh cannot be a hero of Jammu. He was a despot. How can an autocrat be a hero? I consider...
Rediscovering the State
Insisting that the notion of representative democracy has changed and the fundamental shifts have taken place in the governance systems, Dr Haseeb Drabu was...
‘The strongest instinct to pick up the gun is political, not money or governance...
In the intermittent hot discussions on issues confronting J&K in the ongoing budget session, NC Working President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made...
Idealist’s Pragmatism
Though linked directly with budgeting J&K’s economy for various years, Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu’s third consecutive budget in less than two years is...
#Budget 2017-18: Massive capex reducing employees cost by 5% sounds game-changing, historic
Masood Hussain
Jammu
For fiscal 2017-18, J&K government proposes to spend Rs 79472 crore of which Rs 31,000 crore (39%) is expected to be spent on...
Stop Press
Ruling journalist-abundant party created new precedence by banning a newspaper in 2016 summer. But there were many other incidents that are unlikely to get...
SARFAESI Primer
A law that allows banks to take over the mortgaged collaterals in case of willful defaults has taken Kashmir by storm after a division...
Strike a balance
by Masood Hussain
Not in public knowledge, there were a few strong voices in the famous “stakeholders” conference in Hyderpora supporting the ongoing strike, now...
Exams, Eyes & Politics
With ‘dead eyes’ in background and at the peak of a debate over education when parents drove more than 80,000 students to the examination...
Lovely Leh
by Masood Hussain
Rinchan Shah apart, Kashmir has Ladakh written in bold on its history, primarily for two reasons. Firstly, it was a key stop...
People Matter
by Masood Hussain
If the flags, paintings, murals and road slogans are any indication then the south Kashmir will take some more time to get...
