Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Losing colour
Saffron, the prized crop of Kashmir produced primarily in the Karevas of Pampore has always been prone to adulteration, given its high price and...
Dwelling in darkness
Again, people used to loose-talk will rediscover ‘kickbacks’ to hound the government. But chief minister Omar Abdullah can accept the court verdict and allow...
WOMAN POWER
For the first time many Kashmiri women are holding positions of consequence in the state administration. Shazia Yousuf profiles 11 of them to get...
Fellows to Success
Six out of the 45 selected to the Ford Fellowship Program in 2009 are from J & K, with 4 from Kashmir and 1...
Hope at last
With broken marriages, children out of schools and penury, the ill-fated CONFED employees lost everything including esteem. Many attempted suicide, some lost their mental...
Flowery Success
She left a secure government job to wade into unknown waters only to open up career vistas for many in Kashmir. Ibrahim Wani reports
When...
BLOODLESS MURDER
They were launched as promising businesses but interfering politicians rendered them unviable. In effect shaking the lives of thousands of their employees. Haroon Mirani...
A Dutch man in Kashmir
A Dutch man is living in Kashmir for five years, making and selling Dutch cheese. Hamidullah Dar meets Chris Zandee to find out what...
Unrealised dreams
Kashmir has often seen slogans for self reliance, both recently as well as in the past. But the slogans have never moved beyond a dream...
Times have changed, so have games
Today’s children are no longer acquainted to the popular games of yesteryears, as television shows and video games grab them early. Muhammad Afzal Sofi...
Rail Politik
Zameer Ahmad“Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your...
Warning signs and the invulnerability of truth
Arshid MalikThe mobs in Kashmir stand infuriated once again. This time over the hue and cry is over the banning of prepaid SIM cards...
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the last leg of the rail link in Kashmir Valley this week – a 19 km patch connecting Qazigund...
What will be the self of Self-Rule?
Parvaiz BukhariThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is mobilizing public opinion in Jammu and Kashmir around its theory of Self-Rule and is seeking wider participation...
Quite Dialogue
New Delhi has ordered a ban on prepaid mobile telephony in Jammu and Kashmir citing “serious security concerns”. This comes just after the announcements...
