Syed Asma
Syed Asma completed her masters in journalism from the Islamic University, Awantipore, in 2010. After working with Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Times, she joined Kashmir Life in February 2011. She covered politics, society, gender issues and the environment. In 2016, she left journalism to pursue her M Phil from the University of Kashmir. She is presently pursuing PhD.
Lost Prime Minister
After replacing Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad led a popularly corrupt regime. Syed Asma meets the former Prime Minister's surviving wife to...
Playing With Marriage!
A dejected employee exploited loopholes in J&K’s existing marriage registration system to blackmail his boss by marrying his daughter ‘legally’ without her knowledge. Syed...
Making Mehjoor Immortal
Learning a lesson from the obscure poets of Kashmir, Peerzada Nadeem Mehjoor, Ghulam Ahmed Mahjoor’s great-grandson, a school drop-out with a conscious mind is...
Funding Faith
Money collected from different sources including tax on liquor sales is used to fund state’s ambitious plan of renovation and repair of religious places...
Moving Backwards?
With fifty per cent of state’s budget already spent on salaries enhancing retirement age will only add to exchequers woes. Prompted by recent poll...
“When liberal and secular Congress can hang Afzal Guru, I will not be surprised...
President Awani Ittehad Party (AIP) and MLA Langate, Er Abdul Rashid, after getting 22,090 votes in the Baramulla constituency in the last LS Elections,...
Good faith, bad policy
Though the state high court has kept in view the sensitive environment of Jammu and Kashmir while ordering to seal hundreds of hotels across...
Madam Mufti Leading…
In an otherwise male-dominated politics, Mehbooba Mufti defeated 12 rivals to enter the Indian parliament for the second time, a first for any women...
“More than spurious drugs it is spurious injectables that cause instant death”
Fayaz Ahmed Azad, president J&K Chemist and Drug Association, tells Syed Asma that there is no way to check the quality of drugs in...
Blooming Business
The start of conflict proved devastating for Kashmir’s flower business as people shunned the trade en-masse. But a new boom in the market has...
Who is Rabia Baji?
Claims and counter-claims apart, Rabia Baji, a former Congress activist turned social worker, is full of surprises. All set to contest coming Lok Sabha...
Sheikh’s Topi Saaz
He has capped some of the famous heads in Kashmir politics including Sheikh Abdullah and G M Shah. A cap-maker by profession and NC...
Mehmooda Ahmed Ali Shah
A close associate of former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi and a well-known educationist of Kashmir, Mehmooda Ahmed Ali Shah took her last breath...
Muted Voices
Having different priorities viz-a-viz the regions they belong to, the six MPs in the past five years have hardly asked questions and participated in...
Give Me More!
Apart from suggesting statuses like ‘internally displaced’ and a religious ‘minority’ for Kashmiri Pandits, the Parliament’s standing committee, in its report, has emphasised the...
