Guardian of history
He was inspired by the family antiques he inherited. Public apathy towards heritage transformed his passion for historical collections into duty. Shazia Khan peeps...
Sheikh Abdul Aziz
(March 1928- December 2006)
For most of his life, Sheikh Abdul Aziz did everything possible to retrieve some of the melodies of the Sufiana music...
Newsmakers
CDROPPED: Prof Saif ud Din Soz was dropped as a minister by UPA government led by Dr Manmohan Singh. He will be asked to...
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
Chairman of the moderate faction All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq took out a procession from Jamia Masjid to Martyrs graveyard at Eidgah to commemorate
Existential crisis
In the process of emerging as a genuine alternative to the National Conference (NC) in the state politics,
A Gatsby killed Romana
Riyaz Masroor
The fresh spurt in crime rate in Kashmir appears to have two interrelated prongs: the state and the people. As for the state in Kashmir, it lacks popular sanctity for which a host of reasons could be cited. On the other hand, people are suffering from financial insecurity, which is part genuine part self-imposed.
The state here tends to tackle the issue of legitimacy through slogans rather than performance. For example, the slogan of progress, prosperity and development has induced among the masses a wild competition for financial uplift.
In Search of Sufiyana
Musicians performing Sufiyana ragas in parties that ran all night are a thing of the past. A few young artists have now taken up...
A biscuit for health
As entrepreneurship in Kashmir takes roots, a businessmen is in the process of manufacturing biscuits from water chestnuts. Haroon Mirani reports.
A Srinagar based company...
End discrimination to Valley based units
Muhammad Altaf
There are some eighteen registered SSI units manufacturing steel tubular poles in Kashmir Valley. An equal number of such units manufacture steel tubular poles in Jammu. The main purchaser for these poles is the Power Development Department (PDD). The purchase is made through Chief Engineer Procurement & Material Management Jammu which is helped by two purchase circles one headquartered at Jammu and the other at Srinagar. The purchase circle at Srinagar has very little participation and involvement in procuring materials for valley based consuming/utilizing divisions.
There are some eighteen registered SSI units manufacturing steel tubular poles in Kashmir Valley. An equal number of such units manufacture steel tubular poles in Jammu. The main purchaser for these poles is the Power Development Department (PDD). The purchase is made through Chief Engineer Procurement & Material Management Jammu which is helped by two purchase circles one headquartered at Jammu and the other at Srinagar. The purchase circle at Srinagar has very little participation and involvement in procuring materials for valley based consuming/utilizing divisions.
UPA’s Kashmir tangle
Iftikhar GilaniAs the exit polls and an internal survey of Congress predicted a close shave with rival National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on May 13,...
LOSING ON HOME TURF
Peoples Democratic Party’s rise in Kashmir politics was sudden. The party struck all the right cords of politics to reach a position of strength...
SKIMS: Direction is important than motion
Tarique A Bhat
Our apex healthcare Institute has performed more than 10,000 major surgeries in 2008,
Our apex healthcare Institute has performed more than 10,000 major surgeries in 2008,
Remembering Shahid
Amitav Ghosh referred to Agha Shahid Ali as the ‘closest that Kashmir had to a national poet’. Recently America’s prestigious and largest publishing house,...
The Lone loser
Sajjad Lone may have considered the option of losing elections, but was unprepared for losing his face with his security deposit. Haroon Mirani looks at the ramifications of Lone’s loss on him and on the separatist camp.
A week after the results of parliament elections 2009 were out, separatist turned unionist, Sajjad Lone appears unable to come out of the shock - of his defeat. The media savvy politician with a flair for television chat shows is skipping media since.
Accused of fielding proxies in previous elections, some of whom won with his backing, Sajjad had to hide his face after losing his security deposit.
Last month when the reluctant separatist announced his foray into electoral politics, a confident Lone then had remarked that his defeat would be “only his own”. He had justified what he called his “change of strategy” by the huge turnout of people in 2008 assembly elections.
A week after the results of parliament elections 2009 were out, separatist turned unionist, Sajjad Lone appears unable to come out of the shock - of his defeat. The media savvy politician with a flair for television chat shows is skipping media since.
Accused of fielding proxies in previous elections, some of whom won with his backing, Sajjad had to hide his face after losing his security deposit.
Last month when the reluctant separatist announced his foray into electoral politics, a confident Lone then had remarked that his defeat would be “only his own”. He had justified what he called his “change of strategy” by the huge turnout of people in 2008 assembly elections.
Leelakaran dumped
While election results in Kashmir were surprising, Jammu parliamentary constituency shocked one and all. But the underlying reasons are not hard to find. Majid Maqbool reports.
As Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) entered poll fray in 2008 assembly elections, the Amarnath land controversy had polarized voters in Jammu. The Hindutva card was the best this right wing party could have played. BJP played the card and grabbed 11 seats in J&K’s legislative assembly.
Leelekaran Sharma, who led the Amarnath Sanghrash Samiti during protests in Jammu, Kathua and Samba districts of the state, entered Parliament election fray on a BJP ticket hoping to cash on the polarization once again. But the land controversy had already boiled down and Sharma was shooting his foot by joining politics.
Before the elections, Leelakaran had publicly announced that his mission was completely apolitical. By jumping into elections, he was actually making his intensions of a career in politics clear. This annoyed many voters who had earlier seen a selfless leader in Sharma.
