Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
The colors of winter!
Zamir AhmadWho says life in winters is dull and colourless? Not the least here in our valley. A multitude of effulgent colours so painfully...
Hot headed netizen
A 12th standard student Irfan Ahmad Bhat was arrested by police this week allegedly for his activities on social networking website Facebook. Bhat is...
Newsmakers
BANNED: The J&K government has decided not to permit BJP workers from unfurling tricolour at Lal Chowk on republic day saying that it has...
Judicial recourse
Four months after the summer unrest of 2010, the efforts to fix the responsibility for the civilian killings is being fought in the court...
Lessons from Sudan
Though Kashmir and Sudan are thousands of miles apart, the developments in North African country have found resonance in South Asia. Iftikhar Gilani reports. Voters...
Caught in red tape
Three engineering students in Kashmir invented a remote controlled car and were promised financial help to further develop the idea but had to give...
No reason to hope
A few landless families live in small boats throughout their lives... penniless, houseless and hopeless. Ikhlaq Qadri meets a few such families in Dal...
Identifying myself
Arshid MalikI have lost my identity card and am worried sick to the stomach. I hunted everywhere, places I had been in the past...
Conmen on the web
Cheats have always thrived in the sub-continent however, with the expansion of telephony and other communication technologies, many more seem to have joined the trade....
Crafting a fake
Low quality machine made shawls from Punjab and other states, sold in the name of Kashmir brand are hurting Kashmir’s handicrafts besides rendering many local...
NEED FOR INSTITUTION BUILDING
building constitutes a fundamental objective of nations. The shared dreams of a civilized society are realized through the institutions it evolves in the course...
Flag politics
Umair HaqaniIn the run up to the republic day, Kashmir is usually tense with manifold increase in security forces’ deployment. Every year security checks,...
Three degrees of separation
Omar WaniThis is how the conversation goes:Interviewer: “So, tell us about yourself?” Job Applicant: “Sir, I am 28 years old. I have completed my...
Striving for justice
After losing two sons, Abdul Ahad Wani strived hard for justice till his last breath. His only surviving son has carried on the struggle....
Disfigured childhood
A 13 year old boy injured in the summer unrest can barely talk even after three months of hospitalisation and 12 surgeries. Walking on...
