Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Compensating education
Continual unrest has affected education sector badly. However, some locals have started community schools to help students out. Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
Aiming in the dark
New Delhi has recently hinted at restarting the dialogue with Kashmiri leadership but seems to be clueless as to who to talk to. Khursheed...
Newsmakers
HOPEFUL: After 64 deaths in the Kashmir unrest Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that government is hopeful of finding a “starting point” in...
No takers
With state administration, except for the police, in complete paralysis, New Delhi is desperate to resume talks but are there any takers? A Kashmir...
Politics of irrelevance
The ongoing agitation has impacted the unionist parties in Kashmir, to the extent making these almost irrelevant. Kashmir Life delves into the state the...
Widen Space
The only assurance that the incumbent government gave to the ailing separatist before setting him free was that he will get the space for...
Deeds, not words
Sameer AhmadThe repeated announcements by the Government of India that they fully back Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the endeavours to stop the now...
Economic politics
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s belated words on Kashmir unrest may have got some response in the unionist camp, but the separatists are unimpressed. Haroon...
A man made disaster
Zamir AhmadLadakh is known as a cold, arid desert dotted by rugged brown mountains. Not any longer. The recent cloudburst did not only change...
Not again!
The prime minister has roped in economist C Rangarajan to formulate a “jobs plan” for the youth of J&K. However, people here are asking,...
Reconciling with Kashmir
As the unrest in Kashmir continues unabated, PM Manmohan Singh, spoke of his anguish at the loss of life in Kashmir and hinted that...
Newsmakers
POSTPONED: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had no option but to postpone the meeting of the Unified Headquarters slated for Friday evening as nobody turned...
MAN OF THE MOMENT
He has talked violence when others shied away, he talks peace when others dare not. Khursheed Wani delves into enigmatic persona of the most influential man in Kashmir today, to whose power New Delhi has suddenly woken to.
‘Freedom is more precious’
Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani refuses to budge from his stand and asks the government of India to ‘accept the ground reality of Kashmir’. Khurshid Wani talks to the octogenarian leader.
THE MAN
Born in 1929, Syed Ali Geelani was a schoolteacher for ten years till he resigned in 1959 to join Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) as a fulltime worker. A fire brand orator he represented Sopore in the state legislative assembly thrice in 1972, 1977 and 1987
