Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Deaths And The POLICE
For the third consecutive week, there has been another magisterial enquiry, this time in a case of death in custody of Sarfu Ram in...
Rehabilitation or Harassment?
Released or ex-militants have had to continue suffer harassment and indignity long after having endured physical torture during their detention by government forces. After...
Coin Scrap
Coins and their denominations are markers of history. Like the 2 paise, the 3 paise and the 10 paise coins earlier, the 25 paisehas...
IMPRISONED SCHOLARLY
Thousands of people were jailed in Kashmir since 1990’s. Their miserable lives in confinement notwithstanding; scores of them converted their cells into study centers...
No Rocket Science this!
Zamir AhmadAlbert Einstein (1879 – 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is known for developing the theory of relativity, a path breaking study...
Financing Futures
Educational loans is a lucrative sector for commercial banks but some students in Kashmir desirous of studying abroad find the bank officials “insensitive”. Sameer...
Big Business Malls
The concept of shopping malls may have offered some people big business opportunities on the peripheries of Srinagar but some of them have not...
J&K Obliges Taxman
People in J&K pay more to income tax than to the state power department. While the power tariff collections in the state were around...
Baking on Dementia
Right now, most attention of the political groups is focused towards what the three interlocutors on Kashmir will say. Though divided within, they will...
Social Dimensions Of Iftar
Dr. Bashir A DablaDuring the month of Ramadan an important social function gets organized by the Muslims in all parts of world which is...
Of discovering geniuses
Arshid MalikRecently I chanced upon a talk delivered by a famous educationist regarding the creativity hidden inside children and factors that kill it. The...
Auditing The Seat Of Learning
The University of Kashmir, carved out of the erstwhile university of Jammu and Kashmir, after its bifurcation is a state university and as such...
Finding The Roots
Abir Bazaz is a passionate learner and an avid follower of his convictions. He symbolises how determination converts ideas into reality. Ikhlaq Qadri profiles...
Bandipore
BANDIPORE: It has been eight months now that the police, despite clear leads available, has not recovered Bibi Jan, the mother of four children. Her husband Mohammad Shafi has maintained throughout that she was grazing her cattle in her Chatti Bnadi belt when two Ikhwanis kidnapped her.
Bashir Malik
in the remote Drang village in Budgam’s Khag belt, Bashir falls in the below poverty line in official economic stratification of Kashmir society. Last...
