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.
Kashmir: An Urdu Crossfire
A tribunal’s stay on Urdu as a prerequisite for Naib Tehsildar posts has reignited a fierce debate in Jammu and Kashmir over language, governance,...
Kashmir: The Embedded Memories
Masood Hussain’s account of living with a splinter wound in Kashmir becomes a lens to explore how violence embeds itself physically in people’s lives,...
Kashmir: Indus Arbitration In Turmoil
India has rejected a fresh ruling by a Hague tribunal over the Indus Waters Treaty, while Pakistan claims victory. The legal and diplomatic rift...
Banking In Kashmir 2025
As fintechs eat into payment systems, banks in Jammu and Kashmir are losing not just market share but also relevance. With digital platforms now...
Jammu and Kashmir Launches Family ID System to Transform Welfare Delivery, Eliminate Ghost Beneficiaries
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: In a transformative governance reform aimed at improving the reach, efficiency and transparency of public welfare delivery, the Jammu and Kashmir...
Kashmir: Waiting For the Finance Commission
By October, the 16th Finance Commission is expected to submit its recommendations to the Government of India on how financial resources should be distributed...
Kashmir: The MBBS Flights
Hamstrung by limited seats across Jammu and Kashmir’s 13 medical colleges and burdened by a skewed reservation policy, nearly 1,500 aspirants migrate abroad each...
Kashmir: A New Bank Is Born
Following the central government's directive to consolidate rural banks within states and union territories into single entities, Jammu and Kashmir now has a new...
Kashmir: Escaping Poverty or Masking It?
The latest Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) report suggests Jammu and Kashmir’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has improved from 12.56 to 4.80 per cent in...
Kashmir: The Tech Trouble
Days following Operation Sindoor witnessed the first cyber war. Jammu and Kashmir government, which spent more than Rs 300 crore and emerged as one...
Kashmir: The War Rewired
India and Pakistan have fought several wars since 1947, but the four-day confrontation in May 2025 was distinct, historic, not for boots on the...
Kashmir: The Water War?
Days after the 2016 Uri attack, Prime Minister Modi asserted that blood and water cannot flow together. In April 2025, he presided over the...
Pahalgam Massacre
Kashmir was overflowing with tourists, and life was completely peaceful. Then a killer gang descended onto an off-track Pahalgam meadow, massacred 26 tourists and...
Farooq Abdullah: Trapped by Trust
Dr Farooq Abdullah, five-time Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and former RAW chief AS Dulat have shared a bond spanning nearly four decades....
Kashmir’s Insured Crops
Crop insurance reached Kashmir five seasons after Jammu, covering 2.45 lakh farmers and collecting Rs 98 crore premium in 2023–24, but paid only Rs...
