Screen Millionaires
After being part of Kashmir’s routine for decades, media liberalisation took Doordarshan’s audience away to private channels. Delhi spent billions in a brand new...
Choked Artery
As authorities started getting into repairing the sick national highway and the MHA restricted civilian movement twice every week, Kashmir’s imports and exports are...
Bartered Symbolism
Ten years and a few thousand crores of turnover later, Home Ministry found enough of loopholes to suspend the barter trade at the Line...
Torn Between Loyalties
South Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency has created precedence in the electoral history as it would go to polls in three phases. Shams Irfan visited...
Road Block
In the superfast world, Kashmir’s arterial highway witnessed biweekly halts for the first time after 1922. Earlier, it was for the privileged passage of...
State Subject: The Evolution Story
Right now when Kashmiri’s entire political class has launched a serious campaign to preserve the demographic composition of J&K, Dr Nitin Chandel details how...
Djins, Jokes and Journalism
Shams Irfan tells his journey of graduating from a page-3 reporter to a seasoned journalist who has since reported almost all shades of Kashmir’s...
A Doctor Pays Back
It was a scholarship that helped Feroz A Padder to get the best education and become an interventional cardiologist. Now the proud owner of...
Delayed Democracy?
Kashmir parties are upset with the Election Commission’s decision of delinking the assembly from the Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Some even...
Jamaat Jammed
As the Jamaat-e-Islami workers are imprisoned across Jammu and Kashmir after the party was banned by the Home Ministry, forcing lot many to go...
Fierce Face-off
In the aftermath of the horrific car bomb explosion, India availed the extreme option of getting deep into Pakistan for a hit. Pakistan retaliated...
Good Samaritans
The crisis that engulfed India’s emotional sphere after a car bomb rammed into a CRPF convoy created a frightening situation for Kashmiri students in...
Highway Horror
When an explosives-laden car driven by a militant ambushed a convoy driving paramilitary men who were to resume their duties in Srinagar, 49 personnel...
Altering Ratle
An 850-MW power project within less than three-km radius is a prized possession. After state government experimented with the Chenab basin Ratle project near...
Bye George
After emerging as a rebel in Indian politics, George Fernandes was involved in Kashmir, directly and indirectly, for a long time. In tumultuous 1990s,...
