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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Cover Story

This is the major copy on most important happening in a week that usually features on page one of the magazine

A Beggar’s Paradise?

Come Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting, mike-fitted vans and visibly destitute women swarm Srinagar markets and peripheral towns. Most of them turn out...

Delimitating Debate

Powerful Modi government is reportedly toying with the idea of a fresh delimitation for Kashmir assembly by undoing a legislative freeze. While there is...
M Yousuf Buch

M Yusuf Buch [1922-2019]

How a downtown boy reaches the hallowed United Nations is nothing less than fantasy and fiction, says Haseeb A Drabu M Yusuf Buch shot into...
Kids of Darul Manan. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur

Creating A Cushion

A few students were desperate to find an option for getting a few minors out of child labour. They chipped in with their pocket...
Khanqah Moula. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur

Kashmir’s Amir-e-Kabir Days

The period between 1371 and 1405, during the initial days of the Shahmiri Sultanate, was extremely crucial in Kashmir’s transition to Islam. It witnessed...
Supriya-Sahu-DG-Doordarshan and Rayees Mohiuddin KBC Kashmir Life Kus bani koshur karorpaet

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...
Long line of stranded trucks on a road. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur

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...
Mehbooba Mufti during an election rally in South Kashmir.

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...
A convoy moving on highway. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur.

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...
Kashmir Life Staffers - Left to Right: Fayaz Ahmad, Suhail Sultan, Shams Irfan, Mohammad Raafi, Bilal Handoo, Riyaz-ul-Khaliq & Abdul Majeed Khan.

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...