Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Denying religious freedom
Right to freedom of religion including the right to religious assembly has been the hallmark of free societies. However in Jammu & Kashmir, the...
Increasing disability in Kashmir
Dr. Bashir A DablaWorld over the ‘international disability day’ was observed on December 3, 2010. Our state too had the honour to observe it,...
Chill pill
Keeping schools open during winter in Kashmir, primarily to compensate the teaching days lost to summer unrest seems funny as annual exams have been...
Summers of Unrest Challenging India
Not to take up arms again represents a major shift in tactics, and one to which political leaders both in Kashmir and in New...
Dumped
The sewers at STPs in Srinagar are cleaned manually without any protective gear, putting the life of these wage labourers, who are paid a...
Newsmakers
RECORD: Trans-LoC trade that started in October 2008, created a record in Poonch as well as in Uri this week. While the total turnover...
Career in film making
He went against the norm to do a course in film making at the prestigious Satyajit Ray Film Technology Institute. Today, Raja Shabir is...
Prove your identity
Pulled up by the Home Ministry, the mobile phone companies are time and again asking their customers in Kashmir to submit identity documents and...
Suffocating academia
Regardless of whether the question paper set for an undergraduate class by a college lecturer adheres to the standard norms, the fact remains that the educational system prevalent in a society cannot be divorced from the broader fabric of socio-political life.
Social implications of Curfew Days
Dr. Bashir A DablaA famous contemporary sociologist observed that human society was characterized by two parallel but inter-acting phenomena of ‘social statics’ and ‘social...
Sham and Congress shame
Zafar Choudhary
The Congress unit in Jammu and Kashmir (read Jammu State as some of its leaders may like you to) is once again best at its dramatics and artistically-disastrous theatrics. Congress party in J&K has traditionally practiced parochial regionalism, camouflaged communalism, political bankruptcy with a lack of sense of history.
The Congress unit in Jammu and Kashmir (read Jammu State as some of its leaders may like you to) is once again best at its dramatics and artistically-disastrous theatrics. Congress party in J&K has traditionally practiced parochial regionalism, camouflaged communalism, political bankruptcy with a lack of sense of history.
Thailand
Qazi MamoonIt was a little past 3 in the afternoon when our plane landed at the Suvarnabumi International Airport in Bangkok. I had left...
Missed communications
Sometimes under the pretext of unrest, and sometimes without any pretext postal services in Kashmir are an unreliable lot. Adding insult to the injury, courier services supposed to deliver posts by hand make up different excuses. S Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
Ready to smoke peace pipe
Taliban have sent a 5-point wish-list to US forces in Afghanistan, indicating their preparedness to dump al-Qaida. Iftikhar Gilani reports from Dubai.
After stoking violence...
Picking up the threads
As the valley limps back to normalcy after five month unrest, businesses are returning to their routine and trying to compensate the losses. Aliya...
