Honouring post date
Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain
Legally Aligarh Muslin University is supposed to work for advancement of educational and cultural needs of Muslims. Consequently it has to...
Curtains up on Drama festival
A play on Dal Lake mesmerizes audience
Tanveen Kawoosa
To strike a chord with theatergoers, the weeklong Drama festival (from March 18 to 25) organized by...
A Sweeping initiative
His initiative is not just an employment opportunity, it is social cause. Owais Shafi Bhat is responsible for the maintenance of hygiene at 10...
At War With Itself
The non-English speaking Pakistan, unlike the English speaking is not laughing much and a big section of the liberal, wealthy Pakistanis seem to have...
Khundroo Ammo Depot: A constant torment
Live fuses, shells, and landmines scattered in villages around Khundroo Ammunition Depot are haunting a population, who are losing lives and limbs to stray...
She deserves graceful commuting
by Shazia Yousuf
When you get in, they are damp with summer perspiration. When you sit in, the sticky dirt steals your morning freshness. Its...
Renegade Politics
Kashmir’s uneasy relationship with the New Delhi has many dimensions. Principal among these are constitutional, political and economic. But the most pervasive and enduring...
Home and the World
Shamim Meraj
It was with nervous steps that I walked out of the British Airways flight on to the tarmac of the Heathrow Airport in...
Ghosts from Kashmir
Eric Margolis
The U.S. strategic think-tank, Rand Corp, estimated a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would initially kill two million, wound 100 million, and...
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...
