Fixing ailments with Ramzan
Experts believe that the changing dietary habits during the holy month of Ramzan is the best way to deal with obesity, hypertension and other...
The Ramzan Blessing
A highly stressful Kashmir society dogged by cancers and cardiac crisis is consuming tons of nutritious, anti-carcinogenic, soothing super-foods to break evening fast. R...
TOURISM’S FAILURES
As the arrival of more than a million tourists to Kashmir this year created a record of sorts, Kashmir Life examines the major failures...
Paying obeisance,not heed
SAMEER YASIR treks up to the Amarnath cave shrine via Baltal in Sonmarg. He is appalled by the amount of pollution the annual pilgrimage...
Clash of cultures
As caravans of pilgrims on way to Amarnath cave shrine pass through the quaint villages of Pahalgam, the quiet and harmonious social environment gets...
Serving the faith
The conduct of the Amarnath pilgrimage is a garguntaun task every year. A huge number of government employees from almost all the departments have...
The Invisible Palanquin Man
Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus visit the Kashmir Himalayas every year for pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine. Many old, infirm or rich...
New Political Ampitheater
Even before the Mughal Road is completed, thousands take the route to cross Pir Panchal. Reopening it has triggered changes in the region that...
The Chargesheet
The Pathribal faked encounter is a case of conspiracies and lose ends revealed by the investigators in the army’s and initial police narratives. It...
PARTISAN JUSTICE
The recent Supreme Court judgment on the Pathribal faked encounter case may take all such cases, involving armed forces personnel in crimes against civilians,...
Injustice and desperation
It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...
Loss and Anger
An eyewitness account of the devastating fire at Khanyar last Monday in which the shrine of Dastgeer Sahib was destroyed.
Early Monday morning Khanyar was...
The Revered Dastgeer Sahab
In the heart of Srinagar, the shrine of Dastgeer sahib withstood tests of time for more than two centuries. Kashmir has now lost this...
Neglecting The Essence
Kashmir has slowly been losing its essence - influences and heritage that inform its faith and culture - to callousness and exigencies of conflict...
Killer’s last decade
Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...