Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Now, Bird Detentions
For all these years, the security grid was supposed to guard a border in J&K that was neither well defined nor visible. After using...
Rains, Truth and SaS Ras
Zamir A. QadriA childhood memory still fresh in my mind perhaps was my first initiation into localization of faith in our society. It was...
A K Sawhney
Former spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party in Jammu, A K Sawhney has been according to the party, expelled for indecency during a protest...
Widely amiss, till now!
Arshid MalikFiasco: Values and value systems have taken a hit, here in Kashmir as also elsewhere. Speaking of Kashmir the worst casualty has been...
Beyond IAS frenzy
Naeem AkhtarThe celebrations around the selection of four Kashmir boys to the elite IAS are now assuming ridiculous dimensions. The topper of the year...
Out of bounds
Canadian High Commission’s refusal to issue visas to some, serving and retired, personnel of the Indian security grid on the grounds of human rights...
Hindukush friends
A group of Afghan agriculture experts are in Kashmir to learn modern practices to enhance yield. Kashmir Life takes a look at the Afghan...
Crafting penury
Once an envious craft, papier mâché is now a cause of penury for its craftsman. Shazia Yousuf visits Kamangarpora, the locality in Srinagar known to...
Newsmakers
PROBE: The state government has ordered a magisterial probe into alleged fake encounter killing three youth from Nadihal Rafiabad near the Loc on April...
Helping to eke out a living
In the absence of a consolidated government policy to help the huge number of orphans and widows in the valley, a local welfare trust...
Laying it straight
Arshid MalikThe number of sick people visiting hospitals, both private as well as government run, polyclinics and acclaimed quacks is on a hyperbolic rise...
Syed Ali Shah Geelani
After coming out onto the streets to collect money for fighting cases of Lajpat Nagar blast case convicts, Syed Ali Shah Geelani this week...
Move Wisely
Javeed MirAt Thimphu, India and Pakistan once again decided to return to the table like responsible states should. The scheduled resumption of ‘substantial dialogue’...
A Welcome Change
The government seems to have started listening to good advice. Though the Hurriyat (M) would have managed to observe the death anniversaries of Mirwaiz...
First Kashmiri cost accountant
He chose a career quite different from the rest. He excelled. Today he stands as an inspiring example. Ibrahim Wani reports In 1983, Bashir...
