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....
The Double Cross?
As cops found their colleague accompanying the most wanted militant in a Jammu bound car intercepted on the highway, it was like a proverbial...
Bukhari Begins?
With three former Chief Ministers’ still incarcerated, businessman politician Syed AltafBukhari regrouped a section of the political class to defreeze the politics in Kashmir’s...
Mired Minds
The situation that emerged on August 5 has started taking a toll on the population’s mind-space. Sharing information reluctantly, psychiatrists believe the real load...
In A Mess
At a time when the businesses across Jammu and Kashmir are bleeding, the government is working overtime for managing afresh Rs 100000 crores of...
The Kashmir Spillover?
As protests, sloganeering, stone pelting surfaced on mainland India streets, Kashmir’s Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) was literally in vogue with arrests, firing, internet ban...
