Kashmir’s Global Jihadists
Kokernag’s Ashraf Dar, the key Al-Qaeda operative whom an American drone killed in Waziristan, was not Kashmir’s first global warrior. The trend took off...
Bride Burners
The alarming trend in which families resort to kerosene and a match-stick instead of counselling, to manage conjugal discord, is worrisome. A society that...
Jammu 1947
As a student leader, peace activist and a staunch supporter of democracy, journalist Ved Bhasin (May 1, 1929 – November 5, 2015) faced his...
Celebrating Baglihar?
Kashmir was subcontinent’s second place after Mysore that had access to hydropower, albeit limited to the Palace at Zabarwan Hills and the M A...
1947: First Blood
Within 24 hours after Kashmir acceded to India in 1947, the Srinagar airport was not only the epicentre of the first war that India...
Highway Horrors
As ‘trucker’ Zahid Rasool’s immolation by Udhampur gangsters almost paralyzed Kashmir, people started talking in hushed tones about the nightmares that have remained part...
Man Behind the Mask
Only an investigation will reveal if the Bandipora shootout that killed Altaf Dar, J&K Police’s larger than life investigator, was a chase or a...
Cowed Down
Heterogeneity in J&K’s demography has vast scope for differences and many way-outs to settle. But the ‘beef crisis’ that the right-wingers triggered by initially...
Model Couple
A designer couple from Leh gave up their lucrative jobs in Indian fashion industry, returned home, revived their umbilical connection with the huge talent...
Faith Survives
Released five years after the 2011 headcount, the religious tables reiterate J&K’s Muslim majority status. But what makes the statistics interestingly intriguing is the...
The Cow Divide
For nearly 200 years, beef was a whisper and not the talk. Then, hearths would go up in flames with homes and the human...
Yes, J&K is Bankable
Banking sector suffered severely at the peak of turmoil. With J&K Bank in lead, the sector fought back, survived and created thousands of impressive...
Gen(e)ocide
For strife-ridden Kashmir, surviving on stress, chicken and mutton and staying limited to hearths and homes, has emerged just a way of life. Slowly...
Solid Sopore
It proved costly for Sopore to jump from being apple town to the rebel town. Inducing poverty and impacting public infrastructure, the image-shift decimated...
Literal Mess
With opening of new schools and mid-session transfers banned, Education Ministry is grappling with the ReTs, some of whom might have entered the system...
