Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
New Colleges for Votes?
For a few years the state government has been on degree college opening spree in rural areas. But most of the newly established colleges...
Students Sans School
Caught between the Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan and the district administration, scores of students of a centrally sponsored school in Tangmarg are distress these days....
Tagging Citizens
Barely two per cent of India’s 1.2 billion people have got the 12-digit Unique Identity number but the UID Authority of India is pushing...
Education and Alienation
THE government policy of opening new colleges arbitrarily in rural areas is beginning to get exposed as another avenue for the ruling classes to...
A troubled calm
Ahmad RiyazAFTER a ‘peaceful’ year so far, Kashmir is again uneasy. The reason is the death in police custody of the 28-year-old Nazim Rashid...
Shape of things to come
Arshid Malik “Crackdowns” were phenomenally common in the post 89 chapter in Kashmir. Free word associations I can draw at the very mention of...
Hi-Tech Tandoors
If supply of LPG is assured the traditional Kashmiri tandoor may soon become a thing of the past. Nisar Ahmad Khan reports on efforts...
Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri
Of all the National conference senior leaders, the only one who made it to the front pages throughout this hot summer month was Ghulam...
Newsmakers
FAKED: A dozen people, including 4 cops, were injured in clashes between police and aspirants at a ‘fake’ recruitment rally held at BSF headquarters...
Reporting PAIN
Half widows are one of the seriously suffering lot of the population in Kashmir. They have their husbands missing in custody and nobody is...
Unknown Toll of Yatra
Inclement weather, use of concertina razor wire in security arrangements for Amarnath pilgrimage and the heavy rush of pilgrims has claimed hundreds of ponies...
Shikargah Re-opened
Opened last week after almost two decades, the road leading to Shikargah that had become a psychological barrier obliterating it, a breathtakingly beautiful tourist...
Enabling Entrepreneurship
Unemployment, disincentivized entrepreneurship, corruption and the conflict in Kashmir are all very intricately linked. Ikhlaq Qadri brings us the highlights of an intense exercise...
Pandits, politics and rehabilitation
Hundreds of migrant Pandits have returned to Kashmir and are residing in newly-built colonies made by the government in different parts of the valley....
Consensus on Slow and Steady
India-Pakistan Foreign Secretary talks ended on a quiet note in New Delhi perhaps signaling a willingness to make bilateral engagement uninterruptible and go slow...
