The wheel is slowing
A potter’s wheel once carved out almost all household goods. But now the use of earthenware is limited as polythene and plastic have replaced...
Saffron: the fading gold
FAROOQ AMIN
Kashir Saffron, an important cash crop, has a strong aroma and colour compared to its varieties grown elsewhere. Its stigmas are long, thick-headed...
No taboo this
Changing perceptions improve the life of leprosy patients in Kashmir but they want their normal children liberated from their shacks. Shazia Yousuf spends a...
How Congress and PDP lost Kargil
Opportunistic politics by Asgar Karbalai proved counter-productive for both PDP and Congress in the district, reports KashmirLife
New political equations have emerged in Ladakh since...
Mental health’s physical challenge
by Maroosha Muzzaffar
The lone mental health care hospital in Kashmir lacks a rehabilitation centre, a facility psychiatrists insist is essential for chronic patients. This is...
Punitive Retrieval
by Shahnawaz Khan
Do the rule makers know that someone can lose a document, like a degree certificate or a passport, in an accident or...
Abdul Rahim Rather
Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Abdul Rahim Rather found himself presenting yet financial pedestal after a hiatus of six years. One would have thought...
Idiom of ethnicity
Kashmir has subsumed life in Kashmir. The problem is bigger than the prospect; political positions on the issue have become more relevant than the...
Change may bring about a change
Gowhar Geelani
Whether we want to accept it or not the truth remains that our world is witnessing some positive changes; all our troubles notwithstanding....
Kashmir houseboats shut down as health hazard
The romantic houseboats of Kashmir’s Lake Dal, built by British Raj officials as Himalayan holiday homes, are to be closed down as an environmental...
Recession is here
It was a blessing and a disgrace at the same time as the apparent insulation of J&K’s small economy from the larger mainland market...
Dark and colourful
Yasmeena can see no colours but her fragile hands knit magic with them. Maroosha Muzaffar narrates her story of grid and determination
A mosaic of...
The Bride With A Bomb?
Yasmeena Akhter is claimed by Kashmir militants as a suicide bomber and a martyr. But was she? Basharat Peer pieces together the story of...
I Can Walk English…Talk English…
English mania is a global phenomenon, though English is no mania; It is a necessity. So how can Kashmir lag behind. SHAZIA YOUSUF reports.
Some...
GMC’s MBBS gets MCI threat
After derecognising two PG courses at GMC Srinagar, the MCI has threatened to derecognise the basic MBBS degree of GMC Srinagar for deficiencies in...
