Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Nonstop: Bomai, Kheegam,
Kashmir life Desk
Hours after home minister, P Chidambaram reassured the state government and the people that appropriate action will follow once reports by civil...
Jailed and honoured
Iftikhar Geelani’s detention and release from jail is a melodrama that he narrated in a book My Days In Prison. Penguin India published the...
Recap of The Week
Visited: Home minister P Chidambaram visited J&K to review the security situation after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met Defence Minister A K Antony to...
Kicking a storm
Movie masala and real life are set to clash once again in Kashmir as football star Mehrajudin Wadoo wants his name disassociated from Piyush...
Food for thought
Started in 2005 with an aim to provide quality confectionary to customers in Kashmir, the Hattrick chain has had an impressive growth. Haroon Mirani...
Bringing the timeless music back
Singers are breaking the shackles and re-introducing traditional Kashmiri music to the people it belongs to. Tanveen Kawoosa tells the story of one such...
April Fool on March 18
Tanveen Kawoosa
Playright and theatre director Amin Bhat is coming up an experimental spoof on environment this week. The play, April Fool, to be presented...
Muhammad Amir Majeed
Muhammad Amir Majid, 17, topped the class XII examination held by Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education for Kashmir division by securing 90.50...
Pitfalls of nonviolence
Riyaz Masroor
Violence is not an option for the weak because the outcome of unequal fights has always favored the strong. For past several centuries...
Tackling recession
NASEER SHAH
Recession has started taking its toll and the artisans in Kashmir’s handicraft sector are becoming instant targets of falling sales abroad. A Rs...
Back To Basics
Focus is shifting back to a career in basic sciences
Jillawatan: A tale in exile
Author: Khaliq Parvez Publisher: Mirson Publications, Baramulla Rs.350, pp 356Wani MhIt was shock and awe when Fareeda Ghani, a greying old woman, who came...
Where are Juvenile homes
Shazia Yousuf
With her head resting in her grandmother’s lap, nine-year-old Iqra makes unsuccessful attempts to sleep. She is in trauma and her body burns...
The name on the wall
Shazia Yousuf
Our ancestral house sat on the corner of a lane. I would spend most of my time in a first floor room facing...
A model village of negligence
Two kilometres from Islamabad Town, Muniwar village has no more facilities than a remote hamlet.
Hamidullah Dar
If a person is air-dropped in the centre of...
