Do Not Blame JHELUM
Governance failure apart, societal corruption, greed and biotic interventions in fragile ecology invited Rs 100,000 crore catastrophe to the City of Kashmir. R S...
Beyond Sadhna Top
As India and Pakistan are shelling each other’s positions, it is the civilian population that suffers the worst. Bilal Handoo spent a day with...
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...
A GOVERNMENT FOR SALARIES
As the lawmakers unanimously decided to double their wages for the second time in less than five years, the government employees have intensified their...
Wall Mounted Peace
An “eternally hopeful” PM Manmohan Singh once famously said the natural resources of the region will jointly be used by people from both sides...
Being Covid-19 Positive
Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat
On March 16,...
Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935
Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world...
The ‘Atonement’
When Delhi announced the return and rehabilitation policy for the youth who once crossed LoC to become fighters against India, it was a master...
Jagmohan Days
NDA government’s Padma Vibhushan to Jagmohan Malhotra pushed Kashmir back to his stint in the 1990s’, reliving the days and nights of horror and terror....
Compromise #1?
Ruling PDP accommodated miner lawmakers of its partner to block non-locals in mining sector. A day later, it faced an embarrassing situation when the...
Model in Mountains
At seven his father became part of Kashmir’s surging collateral damage and at 14 he was formally admitted to an orphanage. Nine years later,...
Collateral Damage
Days after estranged Syed Ali Geelani transferred ‘his property’ to an autonomous trust, Jama’at-e-Islami cried foul. The controversy brought once fair weather friends face...
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
The Virus Hunter
At the forefront of the detection and control of the viral outbreaks within and outside the USA in the last more than 20 years...
Historic Exposé
As an unhappy soldier feeling pushed to the wall spilled beans, it helped Kashmir understand its contemporary history better. R S Gull revisits the...
