Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Letter From The Editor
I am pleased to bring our readers the third consecutive Year-End issue of Kashmir Life. Our theme this time identifies individuals and institutions that...
Eye On Wars And Life
He once struggled to buy a camera for himself, and today he is in the league of the world’s best photojournalists. Tasavur Mushtaq reports...
2011: Year of Peace?
Unlike previous three years, this remained relatively peaceful. It was a year when major issues like the official acknowledgement of the existence of unmarked...
Tsunami Software
A major disaster prompted a Kashmiri entrepreneur to involve himself in developing a unique software, one that aims to improve tsunami detection and management....
Long Live The Apple Cart
After years of crying hoarse over Kashmir’s failure on post-harvest front, the private sector has finally chipped in to alter the way we sold...
Fiddling With Faith
An unregistered tour operator duping a large number of Haj aspirants should force the government to monitor the sector and liberalize systems. Actors in...
Virtual Success
“Hooglu doesn’t mean anything. It just struck my mind,” says Zaid. A word without meaning that’s now become a business without boundaries. Tasavur Mushtaq...
Etches in our palms
Arshid MalikThis is a hypothetical analysis of actual events and does not necessarily presuppose its own rightness. The year 2011 is receding fast into...
Re-energizing Energy Sector
For years people knew Shakeel Qalander as an entrepreneur. This year, his hunt to understand the basics of J&K government’s relationship with NHPC brought...
Tourism And Pilgrimage
A surface calm this year was complimented by a ‘record number’ of tourists into Kashmir, lifting the economy hit by three consecutive summers of...
A New Flock
There has been high enthusiasm among the youth to appear in the civil services qualifiers both at the state and all-India levels. Traditionally, Kashmir...
Power Reforms
Hydro power generation policy may see a positive shift soon, but some actors say the overall direction may end up being discriminatory against the...
Fiscal reforms
People of J&K paid up more in income tax that as electricity tariff but the exchequer receives much less that the stat’s needs. While...
The Kashmir Interlocution
The interlocutors came, talked to some people and went on to submit recommendations to the government for solving the Kashmir issue, adding to an...
High Profile VISITS
Two high-profile visits to Kashmir, by Jhon McCanin and Margaret Sekaggay, this past year were a display of how differently states and multilateral bodies...
