The Cricketer and Kashmir
Cricketer Imran Khan is scheduled to takeover as the Prime Minister of Pakistan on August 11. He is the first Pakistani politician who is...
Pledging Publicly
When 105 brides and grooms assembled in a city club for taking marriage vows under one roof in mid-July, it was Kashmir’s first mass...
A Withered Witness
Witness to the ups and downs in Shehr-e-Khas, Siddiq Sodaghar remembers all events between the Nala Mar filling to the worst of Sher-Bakra feud....
School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...
The FallOut
The BJPDP’s ‘Rainbow Alliance’ that was supposed to mend polar differences in politics; geography and ideology finally witnessed a shockingly humiliating fall that commoners...
The Shujaat, You Do Not Know
Kashmir lost Shujaat Bukhari, one of its most prominent journalists to a brutal attack virtually on the eve of Eid. Masood Hussain who had...
Sheikh-ul-Aalam: A Rediscovery
In the last 500 years, most of the literature produced about the movement that Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani led in medieval Kashmir is shrouded in...
A Trojan In Hajin
A series of brutal killings by unknown gunmen have frightened the region that was source of scare to most of Kashmir at one point...
Spy Statements
A journalist had a series of joint interviews with A S Dulat, former RAW chief and Assad Durrani, who headed ISI in 1990, and...
The New Outcasts?
Dramatic turns and twists at ground zero have squeezed the space for middle-rung workers of unionist political parties, forcing police to set up a...
Islam’s First Kashmir Address
Islam existed in Kashmir even 200 years before Kalhana wrote his Rajatarangni. But the immigrants who would come as mercenaries and traders would mostly...
Last 40 Hours
Nobody knows exactly, the details of Dr Rafi’s last forty hours, till he was located besieged in a Shopian village, alongside top Hizb rebels....
Lonely Battles
Every time a militant falls, thousands of people join the funeral prayers. Once he is lowered into the grave, the story ends. In order...
Plastic Millionaires
The ever-increasing consumption is massively throwing heaps of plastic, iron and paper packaging almost everywhere in urban and peripheral Kashmir. It is a huge...
Men in Khaki
In the backdrop of Kathua kidnapping, rape and murder of little Rasana girl, certain sections of society in J&K are raising fingers towards the...
