Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Caged Geelani
In what some analysts call a ‘big risk’ the government is going all the way to keep ailing separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani under...
Srinagar roads get overhaul
Hamidullah DarAfter two decades of neglect the roads of Srinagar are undergoing macadamisation on a massive scale that aims to take its ramshackle roads...
Facebooked
Social network sites are here, long before we realised. It could not have been announced more loudly than a murder over a virtual friendship. Shazia Yousuf anlayses the phenomenon.
Newsmakers
PROFITTED: In the first three months ending June, J&K Bank pocketed a net profit of Rs. 117.05 crores. Its business turnover was at Rs...
Saving Rahul’s Pilot Project
Almost everybody referred to in this report will deny it. But this is exactly what happened last fortnight in Srinagar, Jammu and Delhi. Omar...
CAN OMAR REGAIN KASHMIR?
For J&K’s youngest ever chief minister there is more to hide than show in the first six months of governance. The road ahead is...
Cross LoC cooperation
We at Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) believe that combining a Free Economic Zone and International Financial Centre trans-LoC trade will fetch...
What is wrong with us is not wrong at all!
Arshid Malik Anger is a strong word. It is so very forthcoming and resilient. Like all emotions it is rooted in the human mind...
CJ Barin Ghosh
Chief Jusitce, J&K, Barin Ghosh this week brought end to a 47-day long strike in Shopain town by ordering the arrest of four accused police officials
Right mix, will it blend?
Omar Abdullah has finally come in to his own. The composition of his cabinet and the allocation of portfolios is by far his most significant political move after having come to power.
Introspect before it is late
Hamidullah Dar
The recent spurt of gory incidents reflects the criminalisation of our society to an extent where even beasts hate to stand a comparison. It is not that there have not been such occurrences in the past but the way these got publicity by protests and stone pelting incidents, brought them to the notice of all and sundry. It happens only in Kashmir that a Juliet (girl) is sitting in the amicable ambience of her drawing room in Delhi and two Kashmiri Romeos are mad after her; mad enough that one friend hacks another to death. Going by the very logic of romance, an unseen woman is not worth life of a handsome teenage lad; that too when Kashmiri youth know that there are other unseen hands ready to snatch their lives and reduce their numbers. But then those who could tell them have themselves gone astray. Parents are in the delusion of the uprightness of their children till they (children) turn to be otherwise. Teachers (though a small number) have started dating their minor students and even some dastardly incidents have occurred in this regard. In Qazigund area, a high school student was found pregnant and four teachers were accused of being responsible for this heinous crime on the student- teacher relation. The reports from many educational institutions are not encouraging.
Drabu’s 3P Vision for handicrafts
At a symposium organized by Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) in association with Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI), Chairman J&K Bank and state’s well...
Reduce Numbers
If there is one lesson that has come through in the last 20 years of militancy it is that the gun is not solution – be it in the hands of the army or the militants. If this is the basic premise, then a decisive move has to be made to reduce not only the physical presence of the armed forces
A brief analysis of Kashmiri angst
Arshid Malik
“Terrible are the wounds of a broken dream”, wrote Jiri Wolker. Beyond doubt every dream that Kashmiri people have dared to dream - be it of peace, stability or security - has been fractured halfway and the wounds are so terrible that perhaps we might never ever dare to dream again. It is known that when the tendency of a people to dream is contained it generates tremendous angst. This is the very characteristic angst that boils in the streets of Kashmir today. Our dreams have been snatched away from us, somewhere in the shape of our sons and sisters and elsewhere as pure hopes to lead a secure life.
All attempts made at measuring or molding this breed of angst by “standard” means and measures only aggravates the situation, and that is just what has been happening around here in the past one year. The present governing r?gime led by a young Chief Minister has been incessantly attempting to comprehend and judge the present scenario in Kashmir from a fixed, traditional and immobile point of view.
Er Rasheed
MLA Langate, Engineer Rashid on Wednesday marched along with hundreds of protesters for 16 kilometres from Mawar to Handwara north Kashmir Kupwara district after...
