Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
WHO WAS YOUSUF SHAH?
The man, Syed Yousuf Shah, whose death in custody triggered a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir, had a very humble beginning. His personal...
Eventful Death In Custody
The story has all the elements of high political drama. Two clashing narratives, of the family and the Chief Minister, wrapped around in thick...
Bunking Care And Hygiene
A cursory examination of infrastructure and basic facilities available to government middle schools reveals a callous ignorance the system metes out to primary education...
[Mis]education in Kashmir
Kashmir’sMinister of EducationPeerzada Mohammad Sayed has said this week that Jammu and Kashmir has recorded approximately a 15% increase in the literacy during the...
Encapsulated exemption
Arshid MalikI was lucky to be outside Kashmir when Salman Khan starrer “Dabaang” was released for it was a movie worthy of being watched...
Barbed wire, armed gaze
Sheep and Animal Husbandry department runs a training centre for its newly-appointed employees in Srinagar in the middle of a paramilitary camp.Zahid Maqbool reports....
Tough Love
Rugby is not for the fainthearted. It’s a rough sport, with a high risk of injuries. Majid Maqbool profilas one young Kashmiri who seems...
Window To My City
A prose poem about the city of Srinagar. It grew as response to Louis Borges’s poem about his beloved city of Buenos Aires.
When his...
Now He SPEAKS
At the peak of last summer when tensions within the ruling coalition created a situation in which the Congressmen were attacking the National Conference...
Mohammad Akbar Lone
State legislative assembly speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone apologized on TV channels for his un-publishable utterances in the house and ordered expunging of the same...
SRINAGAR
Bollywood’s erstwhile heartthrob Rishi Kapoor shot 14 films in Kashmir between 1972 and 1988. It included his super-hit Bobby. The rise of militancy led...
Newsmakers
ARRESTED: Vijay Kumar Bhagat resident of Matta, Kishtwar was arrested for allegedly being involved in raping his minor maid, 17. Bhagat working in a...
Sand Diggers
On a pleasant September morning, Mohammad Sidiq, a sand-digger in his early 30s, pushes his long wooden boat out onto the River Jhelum, which...
Horrors of Anonymous Kills
the reports of thousands of unidentified graves of unknown people in Poonch horror stories of the anonymously killed are also coming alive. A Kashmir...
Over To The Judiciary
In 1996, four civilians were kidnapped in Bhaderwah, allegedly in a police truck. Three, including a father-son duo, were murdered but the fourth escaped....
