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 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...
Lalla Rookh Eyes
Exactly 200 years after Irish blind poet Thomas Moore sang in praise of Kashmir, its beauty, its women and their eyes in his epic...
Kashmiriyat
An interesting post-partition creation, Kashmiriyat is popular in Delhi than in Srinagar. But what it means and why everybody is talking about it these...
That Televised War
It has been 17 years since India and Pakistan fought a ‘localized’ war over the hills between Zoji La and Siachen glacier. Following Vajpayee’s...
Strategic Focus
Expenditure of billions of rupees is in the pipeline to improve the infrastructure in J&K. But the priority in public spending lies more in...
Rumour Republic
The Flood of kids-carrying parents jamming roads and hospitals last week was just a historic instance of what a rumour can do to Kashmir...
Engineering Enigma
The narrow gorge that houses J&K’s most modern dam continuously surprised the people tasked to tame the ferocious Chenab in one of the most...
