Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Convenient Un-Ban
The blanket ban on local cable news channels has been in place since 2010 unrest, however, the government is reportedly mulling lifting the ban in view of upcoming municipal polls. Majid Maqbool reports.
‘Killing Army’s Mistake’
Last week an army patrol stepped inside AshiqHussain’s compound and shot him dead. The army officials have accepted that it was a mistake. Mudasir...
Archaic learning
The colleges and universities in the state are stuck in decades old courses and curriculum when the world has moved on. Geer Mohammad Ishaq...
Make Time
In the last six years, lot of changes were effected in the way J&K legislates, debates the public issues, agrees and disagrees on the...
Landscape of Stress
Ihsan Malik
The seemingly interminable ferment that Kashmir has been enduring for the last two decades has, without doubt, had an extremely pernicious effect on...
Customer Care
Arshid MalikCustomer Care! Yes, that is the concurrent pass phrase for customers to extract support from companies and establishments from whom they have subscribed...
Daring to take a challenge
From being a banker to choosing civil services Syed Sajjad Qadri always liked challenges. In an interview with Tasavur Mushtaq he explains how he...
Taj Mohiuddin
With allegations of corruption against ministers and politicians dogging the state government, a special anticorruption judge directed the State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) to investigate...
Newsmakers
SEEKING: The US Embassy in New Delhi is seeking, for the first time, a political specialist on Kashmir to keep the envoys updated on...
JAMIA NAGAR
Not far away from the Batla House, the spot of the infamous gruesome encounter, will come up a major infrastructure of Jamia Millia Islamia...
After Three QUARTERS
Development is the predominant part of the official discourse in J&K. And the development is a failed story; at least the official statistics suggests...
‘Ignored and punished’
A robust business town is decaying fast under crumbling infrastructure and official apathy. Residents believe they are being victimized for their political beliefs, reports...
Out, finally
The investigation into the ‘examgate’ involving the state education minister’s foster son has forced Peerzada to resign. Tasavur Mushtaq reports.The state’s education minister Peerzada...
Of Kettles and Pots
An education minister can cheat, help his son cheat and by rational deduction actually cheats his own blood as well. Normally, it should shock...
The game
S. RehmanKilling and getting killed, killing and being prosecuted, killing and getting immunity, killing and being protected, killing and being rewarded. The horrid business...
