Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
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...
Living with a dying art
His masterly strokes of the brush put life in words. For Ace Arabic calligrapher Tariq Ahmed Shah, to paint is to feel alive. Aliya...
Teacher at heart
An engineer by profession, a teacher at heart, Manzoor Ahmad Kachgar has established over two dozen Darsgahs in his locality, and a school that...
Bartering of a year
Started in a hurry, the trans-LoC trade had more hurdles than pedals. Despite government promises of sorting out modalities soon, a year after the...
Urban Gypsy
Iftikhar GilaniFrustrated with directions and lost at a busy junction in Bangkok, a Thai tourism kiosk on the pavement came to my rescue. After...
Infant hospital
Valley’s sole children hospital, GB Pant, has only 135 beds for a child population of 10 lakh. With only three incubators the hospital is...
Flawed debatek
Zameer AhmadThe great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is to leap from the necessity of...
Whining won’t make you shining
Tarique A BhatThe destructiveness of Kashmir conflict is reality for our younger generation. And for thousands of families. And, in fact, for millions of...
Shabir Shah
After being in the jail for umpteenth time senior separatist leader and chairman Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah was released recently....
Syed Ali Shah Geelani
Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani dominated the news this week with his acts of giving slips to police and sudden appearances in...
Shhhhhh! Quiet talks are about to start
Arshid MalikIn 1865 German chemist Friedrich August Kekul? suggested that the structure of Benzene contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single...
Stalking Death
For the last many weeks now, the doctors at Jammu and Kashmir are on strike and if the Friday press conference of a senior...
Don’t Ignore valley-based KPs
Dr. Bashir A DablaWhen majority of Kashmiri Pandits migrated to different places outside the valley from 1990, many of them stayed put in...
Talk purposefully
Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram’s recent Kashmir visit has proved to be very significant. His visit gave peace-building a new chance and a new direction...
