Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
A ‘polythene free’ initiative
Shazia YousufTaking time out of their studies, a group of young boys busily commune with shopkeepers at Lal Chowk. It is not the bargain...
Lords, Elders or Political Class Four
Naeem Akhtar
Omar Abdullah cannot be blamed for the selection of candidates nominated for the Legislative Council this week. Worse has been done to our House
The epitaph for living dead
Zamir Ahmad
Children usually play a game called Word Association. This educational game involves an exchange of words that are associated together. Once an original word has been chosen, usually randomly or arbitrarily, a player will find a word that they associate with it and make it known to all the players, usually by saying it aloud or writing it down as the next item on a list of words so far used.
Children usually play a game called Word Association. This educational game involves an exchange of words that are associated together. Once an original word has been chosen, usually randomly or arbitrarily, a player will find a word that they associate with it and make it known to all the players, usually by saying it aloud or writing it down as the next item on a list of words so far used.
The sham of emancipation
Tanveen Kawoosa
The concept of women emancipation has turned into hogwash. Terminology like economical independence and freedom has resulted into her unabated exploitation. Eye openers are the spine chilling catalogues of crimes committed against women at workplace in government as well as in corporate sector.
The concept of women emancipation has turned into hogwash. Terminology like economical independence and freedom has resulted into her unabated exploitation. Eye openers are the spine chilling catalogues of crimes committed against women at workplace in government as well as in corporate sector.
Islamabad
Situation - 55 Kms of south-east of Srinagar, Islamabad (officialy Anantnag) District lies between 30-30?to 34-15?north latitude and approximately 70 to 75east longitude. It is contiguous to Pulwama in the north-west and Srinagar in the north.
Another election, another ‘boycott’
The upcoming parliament elections have set both camps of All Parties Hurriyat Conference in motion to call for yet another boycott. Others are, however, reconsidering their options. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Indian Muslims’ indifference to Kashmir
Why is it that the Gujarat violence or Varun Gandhi’s statements affect Indian Muslims intensely than the daily killings in Jammu and Kashmir? Is it insensitivity r fear?
His Kashmir Nostalgia
A historical picture at his new house captured Showkat Rashid Wani’s attention in 1996. Moments later, when he moved away his gaze, he was...
Recap of The Week
DIED: Veteran politician and a close associate of Sheikh Abdullah, Ghulam Nabi Kochak died of a heart attack on March 28. He was 81....
Ghulam Qadir Pardesi
Opposition People’s Democratic Party(PDP) received a jolt this week, as senior leader Ghulam Qadir Pardesi, switched sides once again to join the ruling National...
Secretariat Gossip
‘What Is This Bloody Happening Here?’
The last cabinet meeting that had quite a bit of agenda and was too long. Even though nothing much had been decided, a lot had still happened. The tourism minister Rigzin Jora had set the ball rolling by resorting to his peculiar style of communication – ‘what the bloody is happening here?’
The last cabinet meeting that had quite a bit of agenda and was too long. Even though nothing much had been decided, a lot had still happened. The tourism minister Rigzin Jora had set the ball rolling by resorting to his peculiar style of communication – ‘what the bloody is happening here?’
A care for career
Arshad Malik
The choice of a career, in fact the right career, is a matter of great concern for all of us – one that makes us what we are going to be for the rest of our lives. Almost everything that concerns us and our dear ones, is influenced by this choice we get to make once in our entire lifespan.
Know your power
Our ruling class, irrespective of where they stand in the political spectrum, is that they don’t know their own powers; both as peoples representatives as well as that of the institutions that they sit in, i.e. the assembly.
Breathing life into stones
Tanveen KawoosaAn All India Sculptor Camp organised by Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages concluded here this week with visitors clamouring...
Cannon’s Kashmir Quandary
Canadian foreign minister Lawrence Cannon kicked off a storm in South Asia besides his country’s capital Ottawa last week. Cannon wrote a letter on...
