Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Words On Paper
Australian artist Alana Hunt was moved by the ban on pre-paid cellphone and text messaging in Kashmir. She created paper text messages, a few...
Snatched Livelihood
Almost ten years after the army laid a siege around a cluster of villages in Drugmulla and occupied their paddy fields, the villagers are...
A CMs’ CONCLAVE
Srinagar is holding a major meeting on September 27. Home Minister P Chidambaram is flying to preside over the Northern Zonal Council meeting that...
MUMBAI
State’s only listed company J&K Bank bagged the Financial Express Best Banks Award in the Old Private Sector Banks category for scaling up its...
Newsmakers
… it would be hypothetical to comment at this point of time but let me assure everyone that army will co-operate with the appointed...
Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry
He had come to Kashmir to attend a marriage ceremony but his visit became talk of the town. Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry spent three busy...
Nizam-ud-Din Bhat
He was a journalist during the peak of his ‘wilderness’ days, so Bandipore lawmaker Nizam-ud-Din Bhat knows the worth of being in news. That...
Newsmakers
HORRIBLE RAPES: Given the social stigma attached to it, not too many incidents of rape are reported across conservative societies including J&K. This week,...
GUPKAR
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has separated from Payal Nath, his wife of 17 years and mother of his two sons Zahir and Zamir. It...
Atique Khan’s VISIT
The former premier of Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK), Sardar Attique Khan has sought permission to drive to Srinagar to attend the marriage ceremony of...
Freedom, or Waiting for Ghani in Kashmir
Prashant Keshavmurthy situates Ghani Kashmiri, the seventeenth century Persian language poet in the troubled contemporary Kashmir. What does it mean for someone today to...
Pizza Frenzy
Fast food culture is growing fast in Kashmir with young people preferring pizzas, burgers and other junk food to traditional foods. Khurram Rasool tracks the...
Suraya The Sarpanch
Nazir Ahmad RatherAfter getting elected from her village LalporaTangmarg as a Sarpanch, 28-year-old Suraya Rather is busy these days getting things done for her...
Assess Crop Damage
most of the summer, Kashmir has been desperately praying for a rainfall. But it skipped even the peak of monsoon which many think is...
All Politics Is Local
Sameer YasirThomas PO’neill, the famous American law maker once famously remarked that, “All politics is local”. After almost thirty years, it still is, almost...
