Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Sent Back HOME
The government stopped writer and civil liberty activist Gautum Navlakha from entering Srinagar last week. He was served an order issued by the Deputy...
The Un-Silent Valley
An event in London held to celebrate the literature emerging from Kashmir besides developing a multi-perspective understanding of Kashmir, talked about giving people space...
Transcending cultures
Cross-cultural and interfaith marriages were alien to Kashmir, but with people going outside the valley for studies and work, it is not so novel...
An irreversible fall
Eloping and marrying against the wishes of the parents is on the rise in the conservative Kashmir but many such couples live a miserable...
A marriage of discord
Naeem Akhtar
Marriages in Kashmir have rather strictly been within the respective folds of two main social components over centuries, Pandits and Muslims.
The two communities...
Breaking taboos
As Kashmiri Pandit youth venture outside the state to study or for better jobs, there is a rising trend of marrying outside the community,...
My Dentophobia
Arshid MalikToothache is the most devastating disease I have ever come face to face with. It sucks you in and then throws you out;...
Flawed policy
Dr. Bashir A DablaIn a story about migrant pundits (published in kashmirLife dated April 2, 2011) a Kashmiri Pandit retired government teacher based in...
Weed out corruption
The war cry sent reverberating by Anna Hazare is only a small step towards eliminating the menace of corruption that has attained monstrous proportions...
Sacked
J&K is 'celebrating' 2011 as anti-corruption year, but the headless State Accountability Commission is mocking at the symbolism of India’s second most corrupt state....
Loading the dice
The civil society has started to speak out against corruption, which apparently has become part of life in the state. Last month a group...
Malaysia
Qazi Mamoon Ashraf: It is time for lunch. It is time to leave all the (fake) studying and hop into the canteen, look around...
A satisfied life
Having dedicated most of his life to social service, he is a content man. Though in bad health he dreams of a better Kashmir....
Policing the rivers
With the increase in incidences of drowning in Kashmir, the small team of rescue and recovery River Police is ill-equipped and lacks manpower to...
The ANNIVERSARIES
Moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was not allowed to lay a foundation stone for a martyrs’ memorial and lead a rally to commemorate...
