Hatched In Quarantine?
After the first of the 43 Umrah pilgrims tested positive, panicky health officials drove 11 of them to a 2-room PHC for fortnight-long quarantine....
Back Home
Jammu and Kashmir lost four individuals to the Coronavirus and three young men to the dread of the ongoing lockdown. As people squeezed to...
Surviving on Margins
Exclusive focus on tracing, testing and treating the Covid-19 cases is threatening the lives of patients suffering from other serious ailments reports Samreena Nazir
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Virus of Stigma
Blaming the Covid-19 patients for their disease is weakening the efforts to control it, reports Saima Bhat
After walking out of a hotel along Boulevard...
Besieged By Coronavirus
As the world scrambles to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, fear and anxiety have gripped Kashmir too. Saima Bhat reports about how people have started coping...
Coronavirus: Are We Ready?
Poor infrastructure, lack of critical equipment for doctors, and poor coordination between government and experts indicates Kashmir is not as ready as the officials claim,...
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and a superstitious clergy, reports...
Is PDP Dead?
With almost half of her cabinet and a huge section of lawmakers out of the PDP, will the Mufti Sayeed’s dream project survive the...
Unmasked
For most of its history, Kashmir remained hidden behind multiple masks, literally and metaphorically. In wake of a looming Coronavirus threat, the people in...
Curious Case Of Shah Faesal
After emerging as the poster boy in 2010 by topping the coveted IAS and breaking the psychological barrier to a new avenue of public...
‘I pray to God to give me the stature of Bakshi Sahib’
Businessman politician, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari who has emerged as a key figure in Kashmir’s post-Article 370 politics tells Kashmir Life editors, Masood Hussain...
Woman’s Burden
Thousands of families, from every section of the society, lost their sole male breadwinners over the past three decades, shifting the burden of looking...
Sand Storm
At the peak of internet blockade, UT administration e-auctioned around 100 sand blocks along the Jhelum river and some of its tributaries. Most of...
Witnessing The 1990 Crisis
Moosa Raza took over as Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Secretary at a time when Kashmir was changing fast. His memoir reveals newer things about...
Left In The Lurch
In the Jammu and Kashmir’s downgrade to a Union Territory, most of the autonomous Commissions were closed down. These included the Commission for Women....