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.
1st Mufti Memorial Lecture explains how referendums and democracy helped UK to reinvent itself
by Masood Hussain and Tahir Bhat
JAMMU: On the second death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, there was an emphasis on resolving issues democratically. A...
Did Sheikh Abdullah go to office in a car seized from Air Marshall Asgar...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The death of Air Marshal Asgar Khan has triggered a chain of mournings and remembrances on the social websites. The reason:...
Middlemen Mafia
A dispassionate overview of Kashmir society clearly indicates, its every facet of life is in control of brokers, from faith to market and to...
An Elusive Brand
From the days, Kashmir fell into the lap of Mughals, Kashmir remained a brand. Half a millennium later, it is facing a crisis, reports...
Cry, Not Bite
By Masood Hussain
I am pretty embarrassed; I told the official function of the SHRC, the main official watchdog for civil liberties in the state,...
An ‘Outsider’ Account
Within a year after her retirement, IAS officer Sonali Kumar came out with a book that seemingly attempts strengthening a narrative that has a...
Sanctum Security
Part of the faith heritage, shrines help decipher Kashmir’s historic and socio-economic narrative. In twenty-first century, a shrine is lost to a fire every...
Suffering Saffron
Dry spell is a historic reason for the crisis that Pampore is facing in its saffron fields. But it offers volumes about how shoddy...
Rare Survivor
Barely eight and he lost his family in 1947 riots with Hari Singh in town. Not knowing why they were killing each other, he...
‘Doval Doctrine has failed’
Insisting that Delhi’s rightwing government is increasingly choking Kashmir, former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah told Masood Hussain that Delhi will have to decide...
Pathan Remembers
Witness to the goriest 1990s, former police officer Israr Khan was part of the set-up that escorted Kashmiri Pandits out of Kashmir, on Jagmohan’s...
‘Managing’ Media
The constitution of an advisory committee is yet another extension to the “media management” policy that started decades back, observes Masood Hussain
Everybody is not...
Braids and Choppers
by Masood Hussain
Hair, Hair, Hair, it’s everywhere.
It’s in my bed; it’s on the floor,
it’s behind each and every door.
I sweep, I vacuum and I...
Beefcaked Billa
by Masood Hussain
I remember that 2016 autumn afternoon, when Jalalauddin Baba, Kashmir’s emerging filmmaker, screened his Saving the Saviour in our newsroom. The impressive plot...
88 Portraits
By Masood Hussain
Amnesty International (India) reiterated its demand for banning the use of pellets, and immediate initiation of civilian criminal investigation of personnel involved...
