Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
How Not To Work?
The CAG has flayed the state government’s contract management systems and indicted it for entering into bad deals. A Kashmir Life report.Policymakers in the...
Mutton-less valley
The disappearance of mutton from markets has forced Kashmiris go without their favourite food for weeks. Abdul Mohamin reports.A rate row prompted by the...
Importing nonsense
Zamir AhmadOur state, and more particularly, the Kashmir valley has certain locational disadvantages that impede the pace of our developmental works considerably. The harsh...
A Jokers Jaunt
As the BJP state president Shamsher Singh Manhas started introducing his party’s delegation of lawmakers on a study tour of the state in the...
Disillusioned with saffron brigade
The sale of votes by BJP lawmakers has seriously dented the party’s image and angered its supporters, forcing its MLA to resign but analysts...
Contagious but curable
Tuberculosis is contagious disease which can affect anyone and takes months to heal. The disease afflicting millions throughout the world can be tackled with...
Voting Shame
The cross-voting of Bharatiya Janata Party lawmakers in the legislative council elections has again exposed the immaturity of the democratic set up in Jammu...
Lighten up your day
Arshid MalikNeon winds blow through the maze of my mind as speeding cars screech to a halt. And I know it is the postman’s...
Tips to qualify IITJEE
Omar Farooq Wani’s fascination with science made him to qualify the IITJEE exam in 2008. Now, in his 6th semester of study at IIT...
Showkat Ahmad Shah
(1955- April 8, 2011)When his friends coerced him, literally, to lead prayers in a newly built mosque in Lal Bazar, Showkat Ahmad Shah...
Localizing The Soldier
If everything goes as per the script then some soldiers in Kashmir peripheries will be busy with local tongue-twisters next month. Lt Gen Syed...
Newsmakers
REVEALED: Bhim Singh informed the apex court that four PaK residents arrested around Poonch in September 1965 are still in custody in J&K. A...
Invisible hand
With its activism failing to get India and Pakistan anywhere near a solution, the US, through back channels, is pushing the two countries for...
Legislating conversion
After years of crying hoarse over the arbitrary conversion of land use, the government finally came out with a bill but the lawmaker’s burnt...
Suspect age
A young boy went through hard times after being detained under PSA. His release came only after two months and, intervention by AI and...
