Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Eternalising Wamiq Farooq
To stop youth from taking to social evils and to eternalize the name of the slain teenager Wamiq Farooq who was killed by security...
News Notes
A Powerful Decision
The inspection drive led by power development department is going on and so far many organizations-hotels and offices, have been caught fiddling...
NEWS MAKERS
OPENED: American fast food gaint, Mc Donald’s, opened its first outlet in Jammu. It was inaugurated by Devender Singh Rana, Political Advisor to Chief...
Zafar Amin Queshi
Senior legal expert, Zafar Amin Queshi was elected new president of Kashmir High Court Bar Association, a powerful organization of legal scientists which very...
Briefing
EIDGAH
The court has granted bail to Faizan Ahmad Sofi, 12, a sixth grader, detained under section 307 (attempt to murder), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting...
Bilquees of Canoeing
Success doesn’t come an easy way, Bilquees Mir, too had to traverse a treacherous path to realize her dreams, ABID RASHID BABA reports on...
A Clutter of Political Elite
Dr. Bashir A Dabla
The idea that, for much of the recorded history, ‘the few have ruled the many’ was introduced by two Italian sociologists,...
ADDRESS THE CRISIS NOW
The government has never denied that the phenomenon does not exist. It has, however, offered conflicting statistics about the number of the persons who...
SK Pora- The Myth Of A Model Village
Other than a Common Facility Centre, a Rural Information Centre and a sewage network, the government has failed to develop the facilities mandated under...
The Damhal Aberration
Damhal is the only village in Kashmir region where the developmental projects mandated to be undertaken under Model Village project of the government has...
The Invisible ‘Model Viallge Ratinpora’
A barren Information Centre, a hastily constructed community hall and a fenced graveyard is all that stands in “Model Village Ratnipora,” SHAMS IRFAN reports.
In...
The absent ‘Model Village Kilam’
Ten years after Kilam was taken up by the state government to change the economic and societal landscape of the village, many facilities mandated...
THE MODEL VILLAGE FARCE
The much- vaunted Model Village project was touted to transform villages in Kashmir into modern, self-sufficient entities. Kashmir Life visited five ‘model’ villages described...
The Marginalization of ‘Azad’ Kashmir
Raza Rumi
Arundhati Roy has been exposing the brutalities of the Indian State in the ‘occupied’ Jammu and Kashmir. She has questioned the presence of...
The North Block Change
With Sushil Kumar Shinde taking over as the new Home Minister, Kashmir Life’s Delhi Bureau offers a keyhole view of the changes that may...
